Friday, October 14, 2011

AC 880 - influx - there is nothing good except from the Lord

AC 880 [2]
There are three things in a person which concur and unite together,
namely, the Natural, the Spiritual, and the Celestial.
His natural never receives any life except from the spiritual,
and the spiritual never except from the celestial,
and the celestial from the Lord alone, who is life itself.
But in order that a still fuller idea may be gained:
the natural is the receptacle that receives the spiritual . . .
and the spiritual is the receptacle which receives . . . the celestial.
Thus, through things celestial,
life comes from the Lord.
Such is the influx.
. . . That a yet clearer idea may be gained:
a person's natural is what does the Work of Charity,
by hand or by mouth, and thus by the organs of the body;
but this work in itself is dead, and does not live
except from the spiritual that is in it;
and the spiritual does not live
except from the celestial,
which lives from the Lord.
From this the work is said to be good,
since there is nothing good except from the Lord.

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