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.

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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 self-indulgent 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.

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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?