Monday, March 20, 2006

AE 365a - good & understanding truth

AE 365a [2]
By good, the good of love to the Lord and the good of love towards the neighbor are meant, since all good is of love.

AE 365a [3]
... so far as man is in good the Lord flows in and gives the affection of truth, and thus understanding; for the interior human mind is formed entirely in the image of heaven, and the whole heaven is formed according to the affections of good and of truth from good; therefore unless there is good with man, that mind cannot be opened...

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