Thursday, February 28, 2008

AC 6097 - temptations; AC 6107 - real innocence

AC 6097
All temptations appear evil, for the reason that they are interior anxieties and griefs, and as it were damnations; for the person is then let into the state of his evils, consequently among evil spirits, who accuse him, and thus torment the conscience; nevertheless the angels defend him, that is, the Lord through angels, for the Lord keeps him in hope and trust, which are the forces of combat from within whereby he resists. Especially is the natural let into temptations when it is receiving the spiritual, because in the natural reside evils of life and falsities of doctrine.

AC 6107
In regard to influx from the internal celestial into the spiritual good and into the truths of the church in the natural according to the quality of the good of innocence, the case is this.
Innocence is that from the inmost which qualifies
all the good of charity and of love.
For the Lord flows in through innocence into charity,
and in proportion to the innocence,
such is the reception of charity;
for innocence is the very essential of charity.

Real innocence dwells soley in wisdom,
and wisdom consists in bearing one's self toward the Lord,
from the good of love and of faith,
as do little children toward their parents...

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