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Divine love is Divine good, and Divine wisdom is Divine truth. (–). about to come into heaven are introduced into angelic life by harmonious. Angelic Wisdom concerning. Divine Love and. Wisdom. EMANUEL SWEDENBORG. Translated from the Original Latin by. John C. Ager. STANDARD EDITION.
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The natural mind, since it is the covering and containant of the higher degrees of the human mind, is reactive; and if the higher degrees are not opened it acts against them, but if they are opened it acts with them n. The origin of evil is from the abuse of the capacities proper to man, that are called rationality and. A bad man equally with a good man enjoys these two capacities a.
The E-mail Address es you entered is are not in a valid format. Randy Smallegan rated it it was ok Dec 28, The origin of evil is from the abuse of the capacities proper to man, that are called rationality and. Linked Data More info about Linked Data. This culminated in a spiritual awakening, where he claimed he was appointed by the Lord to write a heavenly doctrine to reform Christianity. Evil uses were not created by the Lord, but originated together with hell n.
A bad man abuses these capacities to confirm evils and falsities, but a good man uses them to confirm goods and truths n. Evils and falsities confirmed in man are permanent and come to be of his love and life n.
Such things as have come to be of the love, and consequently of the life, are engendered in offspring n. All evils and their falsities, both engendered and acquired, have their seat in the natural mind n.
Evils and falsities are in complete opposition to goods and truths, because evils and falsities are diabolical and infernal, while goods and truths are divine and heavenly n. The natural mind that is in evils and in falsities therefrom is a form and image of hell n. The natural mind that is a form or image of hell descends through three degrees n. The three degrees of the natural mind that is a form and image of hell, are opposite to the three degrees of the spiritual mind which is a form and image of heaven n.
The natural mind that is a hell is in complete opposition to the spiritual mind which is a heaven n. All things of the three degrees of the natural mind are included in the deeds that are done by the acts of the body n. Part fourth The Lord from eternity, who is Jehovah, created the universe and all things thereof from Himself, and not from nothing n. The Lord from eternity, that is, Jehovah, could not have created the universe and all things thereof unless He were a man n.
The Lord from eternity, that is, Jehovah, brought forth from Himself the sun of the spiritual world, and from that created the universe and all things thereof n. There are in the Lord three things that are the Lord, the Divine of love, the Divine of wisdom, and the Divine of use; and these three are presented in appearance outside of the sun of the spiritual world, the Divine of love by heat, the Divine of wisdom by light, and the Divine of use by the atmosphere.
Which is their containant n.
The atmospheres, of which there are three both in the spiritual and in the natural world, in their outmosts close into substances and matters such as are in earths n. In the substances and matters of which earths are formed there is nothing of the Divine in itself, but still they are from the Divine in itself n.
All uses, which are ends of creation, are in forms, which forms they take from substances and matters such as are in earths n.
In earths there is a conatus to produce uses in forms, that is. Forms of uses n.
In all forms of uses there is a kind of image of creation n. In all forms of uses there is a kind of image of man n. In all forms of uses there is a kind of image of the infinite and the eternal n. All things of the created universe, viewed in reference to uses, represent man in an image; and this testifies that God is man n.
All things created by the Lord are uses; they are uses in the order, degree, and respect in which they have relation to man, and through man to the Lord, from whom [they are] n.
Uses for sustaining the body n. Uses for perfecting the rational n. Uses for receiving the spiritual from the Lord n. Evil uses were not created by the Lord, but originated together with hell n. What is meant by evil uses on the earth n. All things that are evil uses are in hell, and all things that are good uses are in heaven n. There is unceasing influx out of the spiritual world into the natural world n. Those things that are evil uses are effected by the operation of influx from hell, wherever there are such things as correspond thereto n.
This is effected by the lowest spiritual separated from what is above it n.
There are two forms into which the operation by influx takes place, the vegetable and the animal form n. Each of these forms receives with its existence the means of propagation n. The visible things in the created universe bear witness that nature has produced and does produce nothing, but that the Divine, out of itself and through the spiritual world, has produced and does produce all things n. Part fifth Two receptacles and abodes for himself, called will and understanding, have been created and formed by the Lord in man; the will for his Divine Love, and the understanding for his Divine Wisdom n.
Will and understanding, which are the receptacles of love and wisdom, are in the brains, in the whole and in every part of them, and therefrom in the body, in the whole and in every part of it n.