Children to Answer the Enemies in the Gate

While watching the inside of one's platter and cup a specific sin and error thoughtform entered them: the impulse to sterilize someone in the family and their children accompanied by justification ideation, error thought supportive of the sin impulse. 

I answered the enemies in the gate with the truths, the sons in my quiver, that identified the impulse as unloving and the ideation as in addition false; it being a denial of the free will of the children and of their children after them.

Thus we in watching and praying learn to see love and hate and their associated ideation in the vessels of feeling and thought.

We answer the enemies in the gate with the opposing impulses compassion and enlightenment; which you will find stored neatly on the shelf to your right at crunch time, if so be you have stored the Word in your heart.

Psalm 127:4-5 - King James Version (KJV)

<4> As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. <5> Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

As truths are powerful in the hand of one who has the rule over his heart, which rule is the Lord, so are the initial truths and goods born to one has been born again, born spiritually. Happy is the one who has stored the Word which teaches love in their heart. They shall not be overcome by evil, but they shall rather reprove the devils who come to them as sin and error thoughtforms.

Little by little, they are washed of filth and bloods by the spirit of burning and the spirit of judgment.

Isaiah 4:4 - King James Version (KJV)

<4> When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

This is said of having purified the heart of evils, filth, and of having purified the mind of shadows, blood.

For we are presented with a series of "chills and shadows", "stage plays and mockeries of the mind", and we choose the right fire and not the strange fire, the true water and not the bitter water (Spiritual Experiences 738, Conjugal Love 16). 

Every sin error thoughtform that darkens your door is an opportunity to assert its infernal nastiness and oppose compassion and reason diligently to it. For when we stop inhabiting the evil feeling, it becomes a research subject. All by itself, that asserts the good. And good then has a foundation, a root.

Once we can look into the dollhouse using the lamp of the Word, we can the more easily detach from evil lusts and take the wind out of their sails.

And what is the oil in those lamps? The good of love. It is with love imbuing our ideation that we can see sin and error thoughtforms in their true and ghastly reality.

The Word is among other things a *taxonomy or catalogue of good and truth thoughtforms and sin and error thoughtforms, which is by design in order that it may enter the heart and the quiver full of sons and answer the enemies in the gate.

Hebrews 4:12-13 - King James Version (KJV)

<12> For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. <13> Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

*Those interested in this notion and desirous of finding confirmation of spiritual truth in natural thought -- following standard Church procedure according to the rules of order -- may profit from comparing it to Jeffrey Young's schematherapy and taxonomy of the most common maladaptive thoughtforms; just as one may in the same vein profit from comparing the positive disintegration and teachings as to personality development of Dabrowski to the regeneration process.

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