Here we will be listing a few notes when we think it might be helpful to you in the course of your following the reading program.

Lord 4  This very long passage will take four days to read.  One of the challenges facing some readers is that the reading at this point is a long series of quotes from Scripture.  It can appear repetitive.  Here though we see the Heavenly Doctrine showing that what is taught has its basis in the Old Testament.  Why so very many quotations?  Perhaps it is because each and every one of these verses communicates, we are taught elsewhere, with a different society of angels in heaven.  As you do this reading, your mind is being connected spiritually with one group of angels after another!  More is happening deep down in your mind that you could ever truly imagine.

Lord 14  In reading Doctrine of the Lord one cannot but be struck by the large number of references to the Old Testament, and particularly to the Prophets and Psalms.  As we read in subsection 11 of today’s reading, “for all that is written in the Word, both in its prophetical and in its historical parts, is written concerning the Lord, and consequently the Word is Divine.”  Even though today’s reading is longer than some, you may wish, if you have time, to read Psalm 18, knowing that this is treating of our Lord’s life.  The link will take you to the New Church translation available at the Kempton Project.