AC 5368
What he said to you, do.
By this is signified that good is adjoined to truth in the natural,
provided that the natural applies itself and obeys.
... it is the internal person that should command,
and the external that should obey,
and that does obey when the person has not the world as the end,
but heaven, and not self but the neighbor,
consequently when he regards bodily and worldly things
as means and not as the end;
and he so regards them when he loves his neighbor more than himself,
and the things of heaven more than those of the world.
When this is the case, the natural obeys;
the natural is the same as the external person.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
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