Wednesday, June 24, 2009

SS 57 - enlightenment from the Lord

SS 57
The genuine truth which must be of doctrine
appears in the sense of the letter to none
but those who are in enlightenment from the Lord.


Enlightenment is from the Lord alone,
and exists with those who love truths
because they are truths
and make them of use for life.
With others there is no enlightenment in the Word.
The reason why enlightenment is from the Lord alone
is that the Lord is in all things of the Word.
The reason why enlightenment exists with those who love truths
because they are truths
and make them of use for life
is that such are in the Lord
and the Lord in them.
For the Lord is His own Divine truth,
and when this is loved because it is Divine truth
(and it is loved when it is made of use),
the Lord is in it with the man.
This the Lord teaches in John:

In that day you shall know that you are in Me and I in you.
He that has My commandments,
and does them,
he loves Me,
and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him;
and I will come unto him,
and make My abode with him.

(John 14:20-21, 23)

And in Matthew:

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
(Matthew 5:8)

These are they who are in enlightenment when they are reading the Word,
and to whom the Word shines and is translucent.

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