Tuesday, October 23, 2012

AC 3793 - we are not born in Divine order

AC 3793
This marriage of good and truth, 
does not exist in a person's natural when he is born,
because man alone is not born into Divine order;
he does indeed possess the good of innocence and of charity,
which in his earliest infancy flows in from the Lord,
but there is no truth with which this good may be coupled.
As he advances in years,
this good which in infancy
had been insinuated into him by the Lord
is drawn in toward the interiors,
and is there kept by the Lord,
in order that it may temper the states of life
which he afterwards puts on.
. . . When this good of infancy is being drawn in,
evil comes in its place and enters into a person's natural,
and with this evil falsity couples itself,
and there takes place in the person the conjunction,
and as it were the marriage, of evil and falsity.
In order therefore that a person may be saved,
he must be regenerated,
and evil must be removed,
and good from the Lord insinuated,
and according to the good which he receives,
truth is insinuated into him,
for the purpose of effecting the coupling,
or as it were the marriage, of good and truth.
These are the things represented by Jacob,
and by his two wives, Rachel and Leah . . ..

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