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From infancy to the end of life,
and afterward to eternity,
a person's state of life is continually changing.
[2] Changes that take place in a person's inner qualities
are more perfectly continuous
than those that take place
in his outward ones.
The reason is that a person's inner qualities -
by which we mean those that belong to his mind or spirit -
are raised up on a higher level
than the outward ones;
and in things that are on a higher level,
thousands of changes occur
in the same moment
that only one does in the outer elements.
The changes that take place in the inner qualities
are changes in the state of the will
in respect to its affections,
and changes in the state of the intellect
in respect to its thoughts.
[3] . . . the reason is
that there is no limit to knowledge,
even less to intelligence,
and still less to wisdom.
For there is an infinity and eternity in the range of these,
arising from the Infinite and Eternal
who is their source.
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