Saturday, July 23, 2011

Divine Wisdom X - the understanding can perfect the will

Divine Wisdom X [3[2]]
The life of the understanding also perfects and exalts the life of the will,
because the love of the will, which constitutes the life of a person,
is purged from evils by means of the understanding,
and from being corporeal and worldly
a person becomes spiritual and celestial,
and then the goods and truths of heaven and of the church
come to be of his affection and nourish his soul.
Thus the life of his will is made new,
and the life of his understanding is from that,
and thus both are perfected and exalted.
This is done in the understanding
and by means of it, from the will,
for the will is the person himself.

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