SD 2007-2008
The spheres governing the thoughts
of the person who is in faith
are of the Lord and peculiar to Him,
so much as they have in them of the true and the good;
as to the others combined with them,
they pertain to angels and spirits
who are ruled and ordered by the Lord
with reference to uses and ends.
By means of an almost similar general sphere,
others are otherwise governed,
everyone according to his nature and genius,
but yet within his proper limits,
beyond which he cannot roam,
for the general prescribes limits.
(May 20, 1748)
SD 2024
. . . nothing should be covetously desired except from use,
and use ought to excite affection.
(Odhner translates spheres as field or force.)
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