Friday, January 09, 2009

AC 10251 - celestial good is the love of living & doing truths from the Lord's Word for Him

AC 10252 [2-3]
In order that celestial good, which is inmost good, may be born with man,
which is effected by the Lord through regeneration,
truths must be acquired from the Word,
or from the doctrine of the church which is from the Word.
These truths obtain their first seat
in the memory of the natural or external man;
from this they are called forth by the Lord into the internal man,
which is done when the man lives according to them;
and the more the man is affected with them, or loves them,
the higher, or the more interiorly, they are raised by the Lord,
and there become celestial good.

[3] Celestial good
is the good of the love of doing truths from the Word for the sake of good,
thus for the Lord's sake;
for the Lord is the source of good, thus is good;
and this is the generation of this good.
From this it is evident
that this good comes forth by means of truths from the Word,
first in the most external or sensuous man,
next by their elevation into the internal man,
and finally into the very inmost man,
where they become celestial good.

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