Sunday, April 29, 2012

AC 2571 - the order in becoming spiritual & celestial

AC 2571 [2]
That the Lord's thought before this 

had been concerning the doctrine of faith,
but now was concerning the doctrine of love and charity,
comes from the fact
that the Lord adjoined the Human to the Divine
by means of the truths which are of faith
(although at the same time
by means of Divine goods which are of love, in the truths)
according to the order 

by which a person also becomes spiritual and celestial;
but not Divine, so as to have life in himself, like the Lord.
. . . for when a person has become spiritual and celestial
he then no longer thinks from truth, but from good;
yet not from the Divine good united to the Divine truth, 

as did the Lord.

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