Sunday, December 16, 2007

AC 5036 - angels can see and defend

AC 5036 [3]
... temptations take place chiefly at the time
when a person is becoming spiritual;
for then he apprehends spiritually the truths of doctrine.
The person is often unaware of this,
but still the angels with him
see in his natural things
the spiritual;
for his interiors are then open toward heaven.
For this reason also the person who has been regenerated
is among angels after his life in the world,
and there
both sees and perceives the spiritual things
which before appeared to him as natural.
When therefore a person has come into such a state,
then in temptation, when assaulted by evil spirits,
he can be defended by angels,
who then have a plane into which they can operate;
for they flow into what is spiritual with him,
and through this into what is natural.

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