Transcript Todd Beiswenger: Doing Your Part

Doing Your Part
Todd Beiswenger
“I don’t feel
special/valued/needed/useful…”
If only I could do…
Not feeling heroic?
Not feeling adored?
"Infernal spirits are elated in mind
and wish to be called vigorous,
strong, and heroes for the most
trivial reasons."
Emanuel Swedenborg Apocalypse Explained 783
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The Chosen One
 Lord of the Rings - Frodo
 Star Wars - Anakin
Skywalker
 Matrix – Neo
 Harry Potter
 The Legend of Zelda - Link
How is evil actually defeated?
Is there really a chosen one who saves us all?
A Map of Reality
Everybody Did Their Part
There wasn’t *a* hero, there were HEROES!
The Grand Man
What Parts of the Body Can We Do
Without?
How many would you like to do without?
Everybody’s Got a Job
[T]he variations there in the life of good and truth
are countless; and each variation is determined
by the way in which life from the Lord is received.
Those variations are interrelated in exactly the
same way as the organs, members, and viscera in
the human being, all of which are ever-varying
recipient forms of life from the soul, or rather from
the Lord through the soul. Yet for all their variety
they nevertheless together constitute one human
being.
 Secrets of Heaven 3744
How We Can See Ourselves
Over 7,500 parts of the body
Even You Have a Use
[I]t is a correspondence with his organs,
members, and viscera, in so much indeed
that not one organ or member exists in the
body, not one part within any organ or
member, nor even one small part of any
part, with which there is no
correspondence.
 AC/SH 4222
Actually More Than 7,500 Uses
 Every single [organ], as is well
known, is in form and function
unlike the rest, so unlike as to be
totally different. The same applies
to the forms within forms, which
also are so varied that not one
form, not even one individual
part, is exactly like another, that is
to say, so alike that it can take
the place of another without
some alteration, however tiny. All
these, every one, correspond to
the heavens
 SH/AC 3745
…the left side of the brain corresponds to rational powers
or those of the understanding, but the right to affections
or powers of the will.
SH/AC 3884
The brain, like heaven,
belongs to the realm of
ends which are uses, for
whatever flows in from
the Lord is an end
looking towards the
salvation of the human
race.
Party on Wayne!
But some communities
exist which have no
end that has any use in
view apart from mixing
with friends, male and
female, and enjoying
themselves there; thus
they are wholly selfindulgent and care
about no one else but
themselves.
 AC/SH 4054
Confusion!
These are obstructions
in the brain, and they
cause nonsensical
confusions there. Many
communities of such
spirits have been with
me, and I have
perceived their
presence from a
dullness, slowness, and
loss of emotional
feeling.
 AC/SH 4054
Encountering Spirits
 I perceived that among them there were those who
constituted the province of the dura mater, which is the
general covering of the cerebrum and of the cerebellum.
Then it was disclosed what sort of spirits they were. Just the
same as when they had lived as people in the world, they
were spirits who gave no thought to spiritual or celestial
matters and who did not talk about those things because
they were the kind of people who did not believe in the
existence of anything other than that which was natural.
They had not believed in anything more because they could
not think beyond that which was natural; yet they had not
declared their unbelief. Rather, they had worshipped the
Divine as others had done, had said their prayers, and had
been good citizens.
The Heart – Love/Good
 Inhabitants of the
Lord's celestial kingdom
all belong to the
province of the heart
 For the heart reigns in
the whole of the body
and in every individual
part of it by means of
the blood vessels, as do
the lungs in every
individual part by
means of the breathing.
AC/SH 3887
The Lungs – Faith/Truth
 The powers belonging to the
heart and cerebellum are
called involuntary and
spontaneous, … but those
belonging to the lungs and
cerebrum are called
voluntary. This to some extent
demonstrates how superior
the perfection of the one
heaven is to that of the other,
and how they differ from each
other.
 9670
Muscles
Innumerable societies
correspond
Angels working
together in unison
The heart is a muscle
Tongue
 [T]he tongue corresponds in
general to the affection for truth...
People therefore who love the
Word of the Lord and wish to gain
from it a knowledge of what is
good and true belong to that
province. Yet they differ from one
another, in that some belong to
the actual tongue, some to the
larynx and trachea, some to the
throat, some also to the gums,
while others belong to the lips.
 AC/SH 4791
Stomach
For [the World of Spirits]
is like a public square
in which all first gather,
and it is like the
stomach into which all
foodstuffs are first
collected. The
stomach also
corresponds to that
world.
 AR 791
Kidneys, Ureters, Bladder
they like more than to explore and examine
closely other people's characters. They are also
ones who wish to correct and punish, provided
that such an action is at all justly warranted. The
functions of the kidneys, ureters, and bladder are
also like this, for they explore the blood attracted
into them to discover any useless or harmful fluid
there. This they separate from what is useful and
then purify it; for they send it down to lower parts,
harrying it both on the way down and by various
methods when it gets there. (5381)
Kidneys, Ureters, Bladder
[T]hose who constitute the province of the kidneys
and ureters are ready to explore and examine
closely other people's characters to discover what
their thoughts are and what their wishes are. They
desire to find out the reasons why those people
think and wish the way they do and to arouse a
sense of guilt over any faults these may have, their
primary purpose being to administer correction; and
I have talked to such spirits about this desire and
purpose of theirs.
Kidneys, Ureters, Bladder
Many of their kind were judges when they lived in
the world, at which time they felt glad at heart
when they found the reason which, they believed,
justly warranted the imposition of a fine, correction,
or punishment. The work of such spirits is also felt in
the region of one's back, where the kidneys, ureters,
and bladder are situated. Those who belong to the
bladder extend down towards Gehenna, where
also some of them sit like a court of law. (5382)
Bones
Have little spiritual life
Serve as the
foundation for those
who do have spiritual
life
Can we have spiritual
life without bones?
Conclusions?