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Glorification... what is it?

Po New Christian Bible Study Staff, Julian Duckworth

Swedenborg uses the word “glorification” in relation to Jesus’s life on earth. Glorification is the part of Jesus’s development in which the Divine in Him was strengthened and brought about. This took place through victories in overcoming His temptations. Parallel to this is ‘exinanition’ meaning an ‘emptying’ in which Jesus put away from Him the merely human states that He had received from Mary.

In addition referring to this spiritual process, “glorification” can also refer to states in which the Divine was flowing strongly into Jesus — states when He was healing people, teaching with authority, casting out demons, and working miracles.

After the crucifixion, spiritually, all of Jesus's heredity from Mary was gone or emptied out, and when He rose on Easter morning even the substance of his physical body had been replaced. In the following days, after Jesus had been crucified, but before his ascension, the stories show Jesus in his glory.

(Reference: Arcana Coelestia 2288, 6827)

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Arcana Coelestia #6827

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6827. 'And Moses was feeding the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian' means that the law from God instructed those who were guided by the truth that went with simple good, 'the priest of Midian' being the good of the Church where those people were. This is clear from the representation of 'Moses' as the Lord in respect of the law of God, dealt with in 6752 (initially 'Moses' represented the Lord in respect of the truth that the law from God possessed, 6771, but here he represents Him in respect of that law itself — one is allowed to speak in this way of stages of development that took place in the Lord before He became the law of God itself in respect of His Human. The whole of the Word deals in its inmost or highest sense solely with the Lord and the glorification of His Human; but since that inmost or highest sense goes far beyond human understanding, let it be the internal sense of the Word that is explained here, the sense in which the subject is the Lord's kingdom, the Church and the establishment of it, and also the regeneration by the Lord of members of the Church. These are the subject in the internal sense because human regeneration is an image representative of the Lord's glorification, see 3138, 3212, 3245, 3246, 3296, 3490, 4402, 5688);

[2] from the meaning of 'feeding' as instructing, dealt with in 3795, 5201; from the meaning of 'the flock' as one who learns and is led by means of truth to the good of charity, dealt with in 343, so that in a general sense 'the flock' is the Church, 3767, 3768, here the Church where those people are who are guided by the truth that goes with simple good, who are meant by 'Midian', 3242, 4756; from the meaning of 'father-in-law' as the good from which, as from a father, sprang the good that was joined to truth, here the truth that the law from God possessed, which 'Moses' represents, see 6793 ('Jethro' being the essential nature of that good); and from the meaning of' the priest of Midian' as the good of the Church where those who were guided by the truth that went with simple good were, dealt with in 6775. From all this it is evident that 'Moses was feeding the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian' means that the law from God instructed those who were guided by the truth that went with simple good, and that 'the priest of Midian' is the good of the Church where those people were.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.