Sunday, June 13, 2010

AE 8 - spiritual perception

AE 8
. . . that which an angel speaks is out of heaven;
for when an angel communicates to a person
such things as pertain to heaven and the church,
he does not speak as a person speaks with a person,
who brings forth out of his memory what another has told him;
but that which an angel speaks flows in continuously,
not into his memory,
but immediately into his understanding,
and from that into words.

Only those who are in the good of love have spiritual perception.
This is because they receive heavenly things not only with the hearing,
but also with the love;
and to receive with the love is to receive fully,
since the things so received are loved;
moreover, those who thus receive,
see these things in their understanding,
where the sensation of their internal sight is.

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