Saturday, August 08, 2015

CL 326 - speech, writing, thoughts; CL 329 - infinity

CL 326 [4,5,6]
. . . people in the spiritual world
all speak a spiritual language
which has nothing in common
with any language of the natural world,
and that every person comes automatically
into use of that language after death. 
. . . the very intonation of spiritual language
is so different from the intonation of natural language
that the intonation of spiritual language, even when loud,
is not at all audible to a natural person,
nor the intonation of natural language to a spiritual person.

. . .  their writing included and contained
a countless number of elements
which no natural writing could ever express. 
. . . this is because a spiritual person thinks thoughts
incomprehensible and inexpressible to a natural person,
and these cannot descend
or be put into any other form of writing or language. 

. . . spiritual ideas were higher than natural ones,
being inexpressible, ineffable and incomprehensible
to the natural man. 
And because spiritual ideas are so transcendent,
they began to say that spiritual ideas or thoughts
compared to natural ones
were the essences of ideas and the essences of thoughts,
and that they therefore expressed
the essences of qualities and the essences of affections;
consequently that spiritual thoughts
were the germs and origins of natural thoughts. 
It also became evident from this
that spiritual wisdom was the essence of wisdom,
thus unintelligible
to any person of wisdom in the natural world. 

. . . there is a still more interior or higher wisdom,
called celestial,
which has a similar relationship to spiritual wisdom
as spiritual wisdom does to natural wisdom;
and that these levels of wisdom flow in succession
in accordance with the heavens
from the Lord's Divine wisdom,
which is infinite.

CL 329 [3]
. . . everything divided
becomes more and more multiple,
and not more and more simple,
because as something is divided again and again
it approaches nearer and nearer to the Infinite
in which are all things infinitely.

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