The Useful Life

A crown to the simple life as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg with an introduction by John Bigelow. FROM INTRODUCTION: The Gospel of the Simple Life has recently had, with us, its well-merited Apostolate. Its welcome here justifies the belief that it has left an impression upon the heart of the nations that will help much to " fill the earth with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea." Though the Simple Life is one of the processes, it is not a consummation of the Creator's purposes in making man in his own Image. One's life may be and often is very simple, with a corresponding lack of Spiritual vigor. Useful, even vital, as the Simple Life may be, it is at best but a station, not a terminal, in the development of the regenerating soul. The freedom from perplexing worldly cares implied in the Simple Life does not exempt us from any toil or from the struggles with any of the temptations, the overcoming of which is necessary for the purification of our lives.