The City of the Sun is a dialogue between "e;a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller and a Genoese Sea-Captain,"e; The book describes a theocratic society where goods, women and children are held in common.
The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine is a wonderful introduction to the beliefs of the New Church and an overview of its theological foundations.
Anyone who had read "e;The Greatest Thing in the World"e; could not help but desire to see and hear its author; and, when Professor Drummond visited Boston in the spring of 1893, the capacity of lecture halls was taxed to the utmost.
There is the holy and most glorious God who invites us to come to him, to hold converse with him, to ask from him such things as we need, and to experience what a blessing there is in fellowship with him.
The Book of Jubilees, or, as it is sometimes called, "the little Genesis," purports to be a revelation given by God to Moses through the medium of an angel, and containing a history, divided up into jubilee-periods of forty-nine years, from the creation to the coming of Moses.
A partir de uma reflexão filosófica sobre a existência de Deus e sua relação com a humanidade, este texto delineia uma ética independente de dogmatizações religiosas e radicada na dignidade humana, por meio da explicitação de uma estrutura moral formada pelos valores do respeito, do cuidado e da justiça, que nos orientam na incessante busca da felicidade.
Quando descobri a verdade, que é gostar de mim, nunca mais me senti só, o milagre de um desejo nasceu dentro de mim, e a partir aí comecei a sentir-me na minha própria pessoa, amar a deus e o universo!
