AE 329d [15]
With a person there are two things that constitute his spiritual life,
namely the good of love and the truth of faith.
With him the will is the receptacle of the good of love,
and the understanding is the receptacle of the truth of faith.
. . . In general, the correspondence of the will is with the flesh,
and the correspondence of the understanding with the blood . . .
These things are mentioned that it may be known
that in the Word things voluntary and intellectual, that is, spiritual things,
are meant by "flesh and blood" when a person is referred to,
and things Divine when the Lord is referred to.
But these things are for those whose minds
can be elevated above natural ideas and can see causes.
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