Our study program of Swedenborg Theology

朋友，你相信有灵魂吗？如果你相信，你是否想知道我们身后灵魂的去向，以及为何去向那里？

Friends, do you believe in souls? If you believe, do you want to know where the soul is going behind us, and why?

你相信人是为天堂而被创造的吗？如果你知道，能说说为什么吗？如果不知道，想不想知道？

Do you believe that man was created for heaven? If you know, can you tell me why? If not, do you want to know?

基督徒相信圣经是上帝的话，这样说的道理在哪里？如果上帝要把天堂和永生的道理启示给人们，这天启的真理将如何照亮人心？

Christians believe that the Bible is the word of God. What is the reason for this? How will this apocalyptic truth illuminate our heart if God wants to reveal the truth of heaven and eternal life to people?

大约250多年前，瑞典科学家兼神学家史威登堡（或译为瑞登堡，简称瑞公）在上帝的召唤下，出入灵界27年，总共写出了几十部书（他生前出版了18部，身后根据他的手稿又出版了39部），介绍他的灵界见闻，解释圣经的属灵含义。我5年前开始接触瑞登堡的著作，越读越喜欢，常常在读到一些章节时，有醍醐灌顶的感觉。因为这里有许多我一直追寻的答案，以及对许多灵性现象的令人信服的解释。

About 250 years ago, the Swedish scientist and theologian, Emanuel Swedenborg, at the call of God, spent 27 years in the spiritual world and wrote dozens of books (18 published during his lifetime and 39 afterwards based on his manuscripts) to report his spiritual insights and explain the spiritual meaning of the Bible. I began to read Swedenborg’s writings nine years ago, and the more I read, the more I enjoyed them, often feeling enlightened when I reached some chapters. For there are many answers I have been seeking and convincing explanations of many spiritual phenomena.

瑞公的信息绝对不像一些人说的那样是异端邪说，说他更改了圣经的内容；相反，他对圣经许许多多仅凭字义难以理解的内容揭示出其灵意，使之充盈丰满，读起来有血有肉，从而帮助人们深化对圣经的理解。我读圣经许多年了，然而读了史公的书，我才理解了圣经是怎麽回事，也真正理解为什么说圣经是神的天启。上帝的形象和大仁大爱，大智慧也变得具体起来。

Swedenborg’s message was by no means heresy, saying that he had changed the contents of the Bible. Rather, he had filled the Bible with spiritual explanations that were incomprehensible solely through the meaning of the literal words. Through his explanation, Bible is filled with full of vivid details which helps people deepen their understanding of the Bible. I read the Bible for many years and more than a dozen times, but after reading the Book of the Swedenborg, I understood what was going on in the Bible and why it was the apocalypse of God. The image of God and the love of His great benevolence, great wisdom has become concrete.

唯物论的危害实在是太大了，从小被唯物论教导的人开启灵性太难了。我们以前都接触过圣经，但是许多人对它嗤之以鼻，一个原因就是唯物论的思潮关闭了人的灵眼，使其与我们的心灵基础差距太大，我们之间的鸿沟太难填平了。瑞公描述的永恒生活有理有据，清晰明白，不但是可以领会的，更是令人渴望的，有益于我们摆脱唯物主义的羁绊，从灵性上接受天启的圣言，进入这连接天人的通道。

Materialism is so harmful that it is too difficult to open the spirituality of those who have been taught materialism since childhood. We have all been exposed to the Bible before, but one of the reasons many people scoff at it is that materialistic thinking closes the spiritual eyes of man and makes a huge gulf between it and our spiritual basis, and the gulf between us is too difficult to fill. The eternal life described by Swedenborg is well-reasoned, clear and understandable, and not only comprehensible, but also desirable. It is beneficial for us to get rid of the hold of materialism, to receive the holy Word of revelation spiritually, and to enter this channel connecting heaven and man.

在寻找永生真理的路上，横亘在世人面前的障碍有许许多多。但是大体分为两类。对于不信来生的人来说，既有对于世界的贪爱，也有唯物主义的思维定势，各种引导人们追求成功与辉煌的思想学说，等等等等。而对于相信有来生的人来说，人云亦云的思维习惯，不愿深究真理的惰性，以及禁锢思想，坚持偏见的顽固教义难辞其咎。

There are many obstacles to the search for eternal truth. But there are two broad categories. For those who do not believe in the afterlife, there is not only the greed for the world, but also the stereotype of materialism, all kinds of ideological theories leading people to pursue success and brilliance, and so on. For those who believe in the afterlife, the habit of echoing the views of others, the inertia of unwillingness to delve deeply into truth, the imprison of traditional doctrine, and the persistence of bigotry etc, cannot be absolved from the blame.  

海伦·凯勒，美国著名女作家、教育家、慈善家、社会活动家。幼年因病成为集盲、聋、哑三种痛苦于一身的残疾人。她说： 瑞登堡的著作给了我一把开启圣经宝藏的金钥匙，也提升了我对内在生命的渴望，以享受更健全、更完整、更鲜明的知觉和意识。瑞登堡的思想如同我眼中的光明、我手中的拄杖，他美妙的洞见伴随我一路前行。

Helen Keller is a famous American writer, educator, philanthropist and social activist. In her childhood because of illness she became disabled suffering blind, deaf, dumb three kinds of pain in one. She said: the work of Swedenborg has given me a golden key to open up the treasure of the Bible and raised my desire for inner life to enjoy a more sound, more complete, more vivid sense and consciousness. The ideas of Swedenborg were like the light in my eyes, the stick in my hand, his wonderful insight goes along with me.

米开朗基罗在石头中看见了一位天使，便用利刃雕刻石头，直到雕出那位天使。瑞登堡却用灵魂的双眼看见了真实的天堂，于是用天启的圣言，在顽石般的人心中雕出神赐予祂孩子的慈爱与恩典。

Michelangelo saw an angel in the stone and carved it with a sharp blade until the angel was carved. But Sweden borg saw the true heaven with his spiritual eyes, and with the word of apocalypse he carved out the love and grace that God had given to his children in their stone-like heart.

我们从2018年初开始，通过网上学习的方式，探讨这关乎我们生命归宿的道理。至今已经四年了，我们学习了《天堂与地狱》、《试探》、《重生》、《圣经的字义与灵义》、《新耶路撒冷及其属天教义》、《离散层级》、《十诫》、《圣治》。目前我们正在学习《真实的基督教》。如果你有兴趣且方便的话，衷心的欢迎你参加我们的网上学习（微信联系：Liu_guang_bin, 电子邮箱：plgliu2001@yahoo.com）。

From early 20118,  an online study we began to explore this truth about life. It has been four years now and we have studied Heaven and Hell, Temptation, Regeneration, The Spiritual Meaning of the Bible, New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine, Discrete Degree, The Ten Commandments, and Divine Providence. We are currently studying True Christianity. If you are interested and convenient, you are heartily welcome to join our online study (WeChat contact: Liu_guang_bin, email: plgliu2001@yahoo.com).

另外，我们录制了部分瑞登堡著作的朗读音频和音视频，我们所有的学习记录以及音视频资料，都可以从下列网址获得：

大道讲堂：dadaoclassroom.com

In addition, we have recorded audio and audio-video readings of some of Swedenborg’s writings. All of our study recordings, as well as audio and video, are available at the following URLs.

Big Truth Lecture Room: dadaoclassroom.com