AC 2519
. . . the doctrinal things of faith are in their entirety from the Divine,
which is infinitely above the human rational.
It is from the Divine that the rational receives its good and its truth.
The Divine can enter into the rational,
but not the rational into the Divine;
as the soul can enter into the body,
and form it, but not the body into the soul . . ..
AC 2524
Divine good and Divine truth are united to each other as if by marriage . . ..
But the good and truth of the rational
are not conjoined with each other as by marriage,
but by consanguinity, like brother and sister;
since the rational as to truth is conceived
from the influx of Divine good into the affection of knowledges;
and the good of the rational,
through the influx of Divine good into that truth,
which then becomes the good itself of charity,
which is the "brother" of faith,
or what is the same, of truth.
AC 2535
Prayer, regarded in itself, is speech with God,
and with some internal view at the time of the matters of the prayer,
to which there answers something like an influx
into the perception or thought of the mind,
so that there is a certain opening of the person's interiors toward God;
but this with a difference according to the person's state,
and according to the essence of the subject of the prayer.
If the person prays from love and faith,
and for only heavenly and spiritual things,
there then comes forth in the prayer something like a revelation
(which is made clear in the affection of him that prays)
as to hope, consolation, or a certain inward joy.
It is from this that to "pray" signifies in the internal sense to be revealed.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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