Sunday, January 05, 2014

AC 9167, 9174 - arrangement of truths

AC 9167 [2]
. . . all the truths with a person
are arranged in accordance
with the quality of the good,
just as a house is arranged by its lord.

AC 9174
Good is like the soul in a person,
and truths are like those things
with which the soul clothes itself,
and by means of which it acts.
It is well known
that each and all things in a person live from his soul;
and so also do the truths of faith live
from the good of love to the Lord
and of love toward the neighbor.
If this good is not the soul of a person,
but the good of the love of self or the love of the world,
then the person is not a person, but a wild beast,
and in the other life in the light of heaven
he also appears as a wild beast . . ..
It is, however, to be understood
that the Lord disposes truths into order
in accordance with
the good of the person's life.

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