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I have been teaching theistic psychology to college students who are majoring in psychology and are being prepared for professional and graduate school. The most difficult issue in their mind regarding the scientific status of the Swedenborg Reports is that his observations are not replicable by other scientists. They were taught that science means proof that can be replicated by other scientists. The students also report that the friends and family with whom they discuss the Swedenborg Reports, also are bothered by this one issue, saying, Why should you believe this man from the 18th century who says he talked to the dead? And how many others have also claimed this? Etc.

But the fact is that no one in the history of science, philosophy, psychology, theology, literature has ever claimed to have been dual citizens for decades, and no one in the history of literature has discussed or described what Swedenborg observed and explained. So the dismissive idea of Why should I believe him -- does not apply here at all. Here we have a unique situation in science and history and it deserves its own rational and impartial assessment.

The replicability issue is actually not a critical one in this case. Everyone will be able to replicate and verify what Swedenborg describes. This occurs 30 hours after death, when we are awakened through the process of resuscitation and begin our life of eternity in our spiritual mind (see Section xx). At that point everyone can verify the accuracy of the Swedenborg Reports.

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9.0.1.2 Trigrammatic Gene Structures

Trigrammatic gene structures were discussed in Section 4.4.7.2. Consider the following chart. [...]

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Love Wisdom Use
Celestial Spiritual Natural
Third heaven Second heaven First heaven
Doctrinal things Knowledges Memory-knowledges
Will Understanding Sensory (action)
Source Cause Effect
Inmost Intermediate Outermost
Divine Essence Divine Existere Divine Proceeding
Creation Redemption Salvation
Abraham Isaac Jacob
Jerusalem Assyria Egypt
Charity Faith Good works
Father Son Holy Spirit
Divine Love Divine Truth Divine Proceeding
Spiritual heat Spiritual Light Spiritual influx
Affective Cognitive Scientific (sensorimotor)
Celestial-rational Spiritual-rational Interior-natural
Lamb Mules Horses
Mountains Rivers Springs
Ideas Knowledge Faith

Those who are familiar with the Writings of Swedenborg will recognize the above trigrammatic units as appearing everywhere and entering into numerous rational presentations and explanations. Each trigrammatic unit encapsulates a rational theme that needs to be reconstructed in the mind in order to make sense of it.

Now inspect each column separately by looking up and down. Do each column in turn. What do you notice about the overall syntactic theme of each? The syntactic theme is not related to the content of the words in any obvious manner. So if you're looking for a relationship based on the literal meaning, you will have a hard time finding the difference.

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