Sunday, June 29, 2008

AC 8051 - rejecting falsity and accepting truth

AC 8051
... falsity and that which is falsified
cannot be appropriated as such to any one who is in good
and from this desires to be in truth,
but only to him who is in evil and from this does not desire to be in truth.

That to him who is in good and from this desires to be in truth,
falsity is not appropriated as falsity,
is because he thinks well with respect to God,
the kingdom of God, and spiritual life,
and consequently he applies falsity so as not to be contrary to these things,
but in some way to be in accord with them; thus he softens it,
and the asperity and hardness of it does not come into his idea.
Unless this were the case, scarcely any one could be saved,
for falsities are more prevalent than truths.

But be it known that they who are in good are also in the love of truth,
and therefore in the other life, when they are instructed by angels,
they reject falsities and accept truths,
and this according to the degree of the love of truth
which they had in the world.

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