Index - Arcana Coelestia - 1 #423
423. Doctrine (Doctrina), Doctrinal (Doctrinale). See # 1367 Science, and # 445 Church, # 1621 Word, # 540 Faith, # 234 Charity, # 62 Love.
There were doctrinals of the Ancient Church; whence, 608, 609, 920:4.
The Church would be one, if all had charity, although they might vary as to doctrinals and worship, [809,] 1285:3, 1316.
Doctrinals are nothing unless men live according to them; an experience, 1515.
What is doctrinal does not make the Church, but charity, 1798, 1799:2, 1834:3, 1844.
Those who look to doctrine and not to life, do not think of life after death, and the reverse, 2417.
There is a doctrinal of charity and a doctrinal of faith, and the doctrinal of charity was in the Ancient Church, which today is among the things that are lost, 2417:8.
In what ignorance they are who are in no doctrinal of charity, 2435.#
What is meant by saying that, when men are in love and charity, they ought not to look to doctrinals: namely, not from doctrinals to charity and love, but from charity and love to doctrinals, 2454.
They who look to doctrinals and not to life do not think of the life after death, and conversely, 2454 e.
The doctrine of faith is celestial-spiritual, not from the rational, 2510; shown from examples, 2516:3, 2519.
The Lord is Doctrine Itself, 2533 e.
The Lord thought from the Celestial-Spiritual, but taught according to the apprehension of the people, 2533:2.
Doctrine is not perceived unless it is expounded rationally and sensually, 2553.
It is allowed to those who are in an affirmative state respecting Divine truths to enter into rational and scientific truths, but not to those who are in a negative state to enter into the doctrine of faith, 2568, 2588:2.
What the doctrinal of good, of the good of truth, and of truth, or of charity and faith, are, 2572.#
The doctrine of faith is the doctrine of charity, 2571 e.
The doctrine of faith is invested with appearances from human things, 2719, 2726.#
The Lord in doctrinals because He is the Word, 2859.
What is meant by saying that doctrinals are from scientifics, 3052 e.
What is meant by saying that doctrinals are removed when man is first being reformed, 3057:4.
The doctrinals of faith are appearances of Divine Truth, see # 83 Appearance.
Truths are not cognitions, but in cognitions, 3391.
[%2+] The spiritual separate the Divine from the rational, inasmuch as they wish that those things which belong to faith should be simply believed, without any intuition from the rational; concerning which subject, 3394:2.
The Philistines rejected the doctrinal of charity, thus they obliterated interior truths, 3412:2, 3413.
The doctrinals of the Ancient Churches were altogether other than those of today: namely, besides representatives and significatives, they had the doctrinals of love to the Lord and charity to the neighbor, 3419:2.
Those doctrines have been obliterated at this time by the present Babylonians and Philistines, 3419:3, 3420.
The Word is written according to the doctrines of the Ancient Churches; exemplified, 3419:3, 3420.#
There is one doctrine: namely, charity towards the neighbor and love to the Lord, 3445.
Although doctrinals are various, still there is one Church, if all have charity, 3451:2, 3452.
In all doctrinals which are from the literal sense of the Word, there are interior truths, 3464.
The Lord is the Word, or Divine Doctrine, in a threefold sense-supreme, internal, and literal, 3712.
Falsities flow from false principles, illustrated, 4717, 4721.
The special things of doctrine are confirmations, additions, and explanations, 4720:3.
The Ancient Churches had the doctrinals of charity which led to life; and how much these prevailed over the doctrinals of faith, 4844:3.
Their cognitions and scientifics were, to know what the rituals of the Church represented, and further what the rest signified, 4844:3.
The Ancient Church had doctrinals of charity; concerning which, 4955.
These are at this day lost, and why, 4955.
Scientifics in the Ancient Church served their doctrinals, 4964, 4966. See # 1367 Science.
Truths of the Church are acquired by means of doctrinals and by means of the Word; when by doctrinals alone they are scientifics, then one believes those who have demonstrated them; but if by the Word, then one can acquire truths to himself from the Divine, 5402:2.
They who are in the affection of truth do not remain in doctrinals, but search the Word to see whether they are true, 5432:5.
The doctrinals of scientifics are those which are from the literal sense of the Word, 5945.
He who arrives at spiritual good has no need of doctrinal [instruction], 5997.
The Word ought to be searched to know whether doctrinals are true, 6047:2. See # 540 Faith.
All things relate to generals, thus to doctrinals, 6146.
Doctrine of charity, see # 234 Charity.
All doctrine is of truth, 7053.
[%3+] The distinction between those who teach and learn from the Word, and those who do so from doctrine from the Word; that the latter understand interior things, the former only exterior, 9025:2.
[%4+] They who read the Word from heavenly love are enlightened, and make to themselves doctrine therefrom; but they who do so from infernal love are not enlightened; illustrated, 9382:2.
They who are in the external sense of the Word, and not in the internal, are they who make no doctrine to themselves from the Word, 9409.
Doctrine should be wholly from the Word, so that the Word may be understood, illustrated, 9409.
With those who are in the sense of the letter, apart from doctrine, truth is not in any power; illustrated, 9410:4.
Doctrine ought to be drawn from the Word by those who are in enlightenment from the Lord, 9424.
The Word is upheld by genuine doctrine, illustrated, 9424.
By 'idols,' in the Word, are doctrines from the external sense of the Word, without internal, shown, 9424:4.
The external sense of the Word, apart from genuine doctrine from the Word, is obscure, like a cloud, 9430.
Genuine doctrine from the Word is the internal sense, 9430.
The distinction between those who teach and learn from the Word, and those who do so from doctrine from the Word; that the latter understand interior things, the former only exterior, 9025:2.
Doctrine from the Word is to be fashioned by those who are in enlightenment by the Lord, so that the Word may be understood; and who are in enlightenment, 10105:2.
By means of doctrine made by one enlightened the Word is apprehended, 10324.
Doctrine from the Word should be a lamp, and the internal sense of the Word teaches it, 10400:3.
The sense of the letter of the Word apart from doctrine therefrom, leads into errors; illustrated, 10431.
They who are in externals, apart from an internal, and the merely sensual, read the Word without doctrine, and believe only the sense of the letter, and draw therefrom falsity, from material, earthly, and corporeal ideas, 10582:3.
Doctrine should be wholly from the Word, so that the Word may be understood, 10584.
Where the Church is there should be doctrine from the Word, and indeed the doctrine of life, which is the doctrine of charity and at the same time of faith, and not of faith alone, 10763, 10764.
