Upside Down

Upside Down, Feet Up and Head Down

Upside down, feet up and head down. The manner in which people are portrayed in the spiritual world who attach importance to themselves or their image. I wish I could do a hand stand for you to give you a visual image, but I'm sure you can draw this picture into your mind, a crowd of people walking on their hands, feet in the air, full of self-importance. Emanuel Swedenborg had the ability to glimpse into the spiritual world, and of the things he came back to report, some of my favorite are these wonderful depictions of how the different manners of sin we are caught up in this world are portrayed in persons in the spiritual world. Whereas on earth our inner lives are most often hidden from each other, in the spiritual world that Swedenborg describes no such subterfuge is possible. Everything on the inside, everything, is visible on the outside. And so, those like the young man with many possessions in our gospel reading this morning, those attached to wealth, to their sense of self-importance, sense of success, or ability, walk around on their hands, heads down, with their feet in the air.
 

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