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Civilization should be Spiritual but Not Materialistic
This material world was created by the God using spiritual energy in the spirit world through His imagination, notion, and words. That is why various supernatural phenomena could happen in this world through the spiritual energy.
A spirit in the spirit world comes into a baby in the womb to become a soul, and a mind is generated from the soul. But when the man dies, his soul with the mind returns to the spirit world as a spirit; yet the mind continues to work on the spirit in the spirit world. Therefore, there is no need to be afraid of death.
This is the conclusion of the quest on life and death carried out since establishment of humanity for hundreds of thousands years or about a million years. So, primitive men lived spiritually with non-logical fear of the great spirit called a god.
However along with development of material civilization, the mankind came to lose spiritual inspiration. The more the material civilization was developed, the less spiritual the mankind became. Convenience, pleasure, and pleasant sensation obtained from products of the material civilization have tarnished, soiled and debased the spiritual ability of the mankind to use the spiritual energy.
This situation must have alerted various great spirits in the spirit world and even the God. So, around 500 years before the Lord Jesus Christ was born, Judaism, Plato, the Buddha, Confucius, etc. appeared in the human world with help from the great spirits in the spirit world. And finally, the Lord Jesus Christ appeared in the human world 2,000 years ago as direct intervention from the God. Yet, the material civilization has continued to develop further especially after the Industrial Revolution launched in the late 18th century.
However, the Lord Jesus Christ appeared in front of Swedenborg before the Industrial Revolution started to have him the chance to see the spirit world as a living man and write his experiences. Yet, the material civilization continued to develop so that the Holy Mother Mary started to appear to give warnings to the mankind since the late 19th century through WWI, WWII, the Cold War, the War on Terror, and the Ukraine War.
So, it looks the urgent issue in the spirit world to change minds of the mankind since the end of the material civilization is coming closer. The situation in the human world should also affect the spirit world. If the mankind failed, all the efforts made by the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Mother Mary, etc. in these 2,000 years should become in vain. Only Satan should feel happy.
Finally, we have to become more spiritual oriented. We have to read the Gospels from a spiritual point of view. The Lord Jesus Christ did not perform various miracles through magic or tricks, but He did it by use of the spiritual energy that surpassed physical laws in the material world.
Anyway, if the mankind could survive the 21st century, its civilization should be spiritual but not materialistic in the 22nd century.
Matthew 7, King James Version
7 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.