Thursday, April 14, 2011

AE 842 - the sphere of our life, our love - just do it!

AE 842
. . . love constitutes the life of a person,
and his life is such as his love is,
not only the life of the mind,
but at the same time the life of the body.
And since that which a person loves
he also wills with the mind
and does with the body,
it follows that love and deeds or works make one.
There are many things to show that works proceed
from both the internal and the external life of a person,
and that they are the activities
of the sphere
of the affections and of the thoughts therefrom
by which he is encompassed,
and that no communication of a person's life and love is possible
unless the encompassing sphere,
which is of his life,
becomes active by doing;
consequently such as the life is,
or such as the love is,
or such as the works are, with a person,
such are all the things of which that sphere is composed,
and in consequence such also is the faith.

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