Afterward Jesus went up on a mountain and called out the ones he wanted to go with him. And they came to him. Then he appointed twelve of them. They were to accompany him, and he would send them out to preach, giving them authority to cast out demons. These are the twelve he chose: Simon (whom he named Peter), James and John (the sons of Zebedee, but Jesus named them “Sons of Thunder”), Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James (son of Alphaeus), Thaddaeus, Simon (the zealot), Judas Iscariot (who later betrayed him). Mark 3:13-19
Peter was the first of the apostles because truth from goodness is the first thing of the church…. But it must be truth from goodness, for truth without goodness is mere knowledge that a thing is so. And mere learning does nothing except to make one capable of becoming a church. It is not accomplished until a person lives according to knowledge. Then truth is bonded to goodness, and a person is introduced into the church. And what is more, truth teaches how a person ought to live so that when one is affected by truth for the sake of truth, which is done when they love to live according to them, they are led by the Lord, and a connection with heaven is achieved, and they become spiritual, and after death an angel of heaven. Still, the case is that it is not truth that produce these effects, but goodness by means of truth. And goodness is from the Lord. Swedenborg, Apocalypse Explained §820:2
Scientists ascribe every discovery to themselves, not understanding that they are studying a Universe already given them which existed long before they were born. They even call stars by their own names. It is absurd. But False Personality ascribes everything to itself. (Nicoll, Commentary III, pg. 915).
Maurice Nicoll, Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of G.I. Gurdjieff and P.D. Ouspensky, Vincent Stuart, London, 1957
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