should think that divinity consists of words, as a wood doth of trees. True
divinity cannot be learned unless we frame our hearts and minds wholly to
it. The knowledge of God must be learned from God. We have to use two
means, prayers and the reading of the Holy Scriptures – prayers for ourselves
to talk with God, and reading to hear God talk with us. We must diligently
give ourselves to reading and meditation of the Holy Scriptures. I pray that
you may."
(BMH)
O U R N E W C H U RC H V O C A B U L A R Y
Part of a continuing series developed by the Rev. W. Cairns Henderson, 1961-1966.
MIND
The mind consists of the understanding and the will, which two faculties constitute the
life of man. They are distinct from each other, but so created as to form one; and when they
do so, they are called the mind. This mind is what is called the internal man, and it is within
the external man.
Note that the mind is spiritual and that the brain is not the mind but its organ. It is
indeed said that the mind consists of both spiritual and natural substances; but the latter,
from which the limbus is drawn, are the substances of that organ, and affection and thought
do not take place in them but in the spiritual substances, and this by changes and variations
in their form and state. (See Last Judgment 12; Heavenly Doctrines 28; True Christian Religion
156; Divine Love and Wisdom 257)
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