Saturday, February 09, 2013

SD 6079 - the pathway of faith into the will; SD 6080 - the Lord's influx & shunning evils

SD 6079, 6080
6079. THE PATHWAY OF FAITH, OR FROM IT, INTO THE WILL. 
I conversed with spirits about the pathway of faith;
that it proceeds from the affection of truth
to the perception of truth,
consequently from the understanding
to the thought,
and afterwards either remains in the memory,
or [proceeds] from the memory,
so
, from the understanding immediately into the speech,
but is not appropriated to a person
unless he advances from understanding to agent:
so it comes into the will.
If it is something to be done,
it comes into the intention,
thus into the will, and into act;
so that [the sequence] is,
love,
affection of truth,
perception of the understanding,
assent or intention,
will,
and action or speech. 

SD 6080
The Lord is always present with a person,
and urges that good and truth may be received.
But, with those who had not shunned evils,
that influx is turned into their proprial loves
 - which are of the love of self and the world . . .. 
He who does not shun evils,
is inwardly in himself bowed down with evils,
and outside himself is obsessed
by such spirits as relate to his love;
consequently, the Lord is unable to reach the person,
because goods are turned into such things. 

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