Thursday, June 04, 2009

EU 159 - effort & action, the will & body

EU 159
The soul and the body constitute one person.
The likeness between both
is like that between that which is in effort
and that which is in the act,
for the act is the effort acting,
and so the two are one.
Effort in a person is called the will,
and effort acting is called action.
The body is the instrument,
by which the will, which is the principal, acts;
and the instrument and the principal in acting are one;
thus the soul and the body are one.

The angels in heaven have such an idea concerning the soul and the body;
and thus they know
that the Lord made His Human Divine from the Divine in Himself,
which He had as His soul from the Father.

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