The season is now changing in Edmonton, where I live. We are in the fall and winter is approaching. Swedenborg tells us that in the spiritual world there are also seasons. The angels go through the same four seasons we do. But the seasons there are governed by the states of the angels. They move through a pattern of greater love and clarity of wisdom, which is their summer, to a state of less love and more obscurity. There is a purpose and use for these changes of state. From a state of less love and wisdom, a person can appreciate and enjoy love and wisdom when they are more intense. The lower states also help to clarify what is good and what is less good, thereby making the understanding more aware of how to be good. This alternating process brings angels into a more keen sense of heavenly life and the love and wisdom of which it is composed. Swedenborg tells us that for the higher angels, the spiritual seasons are very mild. Kind of like the weather in Florida, I would imagine. Here in the material world, we are brought through similar states. We can watch our changing states if we are sensitive to our souls' migrations. We, too, can become more aware of love and wisdom as we consider our states in this life.
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