Monday, December 19, 2011

AC 1434 - sensuous truth; AC 1435 - memory-knowledges; AC 1436 - the soul

sensuous truth = truth learned through the senses
memory knowledges = facts learned through the senses

AC 1434
Sensuous truth consists in seeing
all earthly and worldly things as being created by God,
and each and every thing for a purpose,
and in seeing in every single one
some likeness of the kingdom of God.
This sensuous truth is insinuated solely with the celestial person;
and as the Lord alone was a celestial man,
these and similar sensuous truths
were insinuated into Him in earliest childhood:
so He was prepared for the reception of celestial things.

memory knowledges = facts learned through the senses

AC 1435
Without the acquisition of memory-knowledges,
a person cannot as a human have any idea of thought.
The ideas of thought are founded upon those things
which have been impressed on the memory from the things of sense;
and therefore memory-knowledges
are vessels of spiritual things;
and affections that are from good pleasures of the body
are vessels of celestial things.

AC 1436
The soul in the proper sense
signifies that which lives in a person,
and thus his very life.
That in person which lives is not the body,
but the soul,
and the body lives by means of the soul.
The life itself of person,
or the living part of him,
is from celestial love;
there cannot possibly be anything living
which does not derive its origin from this;
and therefore by "soul" is here signified
the good which lives from celestial love,
which good is the living essential itself.

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