Chrysalis Retreat Center & Swedenborg Sanctuary

10/07/2025

From this summer’s (2025) 201st Annual Swedenborgian Convention in Portland, Oregon.

10/01/2025

A daily feast of wisdom and comfort.

10/01/2025

09/22/2025

“My confidence in the final triumph of idealism over materialism does not spring from closing my mental eyes to the suffering of the evil-doing of men, but rather from a steadfast belief that good will climbs upward in human nature while the meanness and hatred drop into their native nothingness, and life goes on with unabated vigor to its new earth and heaven.” Helen Keller, in
~ My Luminous Universe

(Photo with permission: Kalar, 10:30 pm in New Zealand)

09/22/2025

Revelation 22:2
“In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, there was the Tree of Life, which bore twelve kinds of fruit and yielded her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.”

Spiritual Healing: The healing of the nations is not primarily for physical sickness, as there will be no more death or pain in this new state. It also represents a complete spiritual renewal and wholeness, restoring humanity to a state of shalom/ peace and completeness.

Divine Provision: The tree of life symbolizes Jesus Christ, from whom salvation and eternal life emanate. The leaves offer a spiritual medicine, a metaphor for the spiritual nourishment and healing that believers receive from Christ.

Restoration of Eden: The vision of the tree of life and the river mirrors the Garden of Eden, signifying the restoration of God's original design for humanity.

Unity and Harmony: The healing provided by the leaves brings about a state of lasting peace and unbroken fellowship, a complete restoration of harmony between God and His people, as well as among the nations themselves

04/27/2025

The importance of innocence. Not the blissful ignorance kind of innocence — few have access to that for very long — but the kind of innocence that we can recover for ourselves which could describe as a “willingness to remain teachable.”
The kind that is a willingness to be led by what Is good and true.
This kind of wisdom of innocence is attainable!

Innocence is a gentle thing. But spiritually, it is much more powerful than evil. Let’s dig into what innocence really means in our journey of spiritual grow...

04/13/2025

A very special book, read to you. Listen while you work or sleep.

Proverbs: 4:23-25.
"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips. Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you."

Philippians 4:8. "Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things."

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04/13/2025

Such a wonderful message about the PEACE the Lord's protection offers us. The Lord fights for us when we are going through struggles.

Sustainable peace isn’t based just on things going the way we want them to. Learn what Emanuel Swedenborg experienced about deeper, heavenly peace that lasts...

04/08/2025

April 2. “Everything that happens in the physical world is an effect and everything that happens in the spiritual world is a cause of such effects. Nothing happens in nature that does not have its cause in the spiritual realm.” – Divine Love and wisdom 134.

April 3. “Intellect and volition are our spiritual person.” – Heaven and Hell, 228

April 4. “We have two faculties for receiving life from the Lord. One is called will, and the other, intellect. These two faculties must constitute a single mind if we are to be truly human.” — Secrets of Heaven 9050.

April 5 The life of the will always comes first and the life of the intellect second.”
-– Secrets of Heaven 5969.

April 6 “People find it hard to distinguish between thought and will. When we want something, we say we think it, and when we think something, we often say we want it. Yet the two differ the way truth and goodness do.” — Secrets of Heaven 9995.

The intellect side influences the will side when truth turns into goodness. The will side influences the intellectual side when it puts this truth-turned-goodness into practice.
—Secrets of Heaven 5077.

April 7. “We need to realize that we are all our own will and our own intellect. This is how one person is differentiated from another.” —True Christianity 263.

“From all this three points emerge: that our life finds its home in our intellect: that the life is only as good as our wisdom; and that life is modified by the love in our will.”
— True Christianity 39

April 8 The desire for good (doing good because you love good) is really a matter of WILL. The desire for truth, though, (doing good because you love truth) is really a matter of intellect. At first glance, these two kinds of desire look as though they were the same, but they are inherently different, both in essence and in origin.
—Secrets of heaven, 1997.