TCR 154 - We choose to live by the Word.

TCR 154 [5-6]

The Lord's Word is like an ocean, a flower-bed and a garden.

When the Word is present in considerable fullness

in a person's internal,

then he speaks and acts of himself from the Word,

but the Word does not act by his means.

It is the same with the Lord,

since He is the Word,

that is, the Divine truth and Divine good it contains.

The Lord of Himself or from the Word

acts in and on people,

but not by their means,

since everyone freely acts and speaks from the Lord

when he does so from the Word.

A closer parallel to this might be

the mutual relationship between the soul and the body,

which are two separate things,

but linked in a reciprocal bond.

The soul acts in and on the body,

but not by means of the body;

and the body acts of itself from the soul.

The soul does not act by means of the body,

because they do not consult and deliberate together;

nor does the soul order or beg the body to do this or that,

or to speak by its own mouth.

Nor does the body demand or request

the soul to give it or supply something,

for everything of the soul's belongs to the body,

and vice versa.

It is the same with the Lord's Divine and His Human;

for the Divine of the Father is the soul of His Human,

and the Human is His body.

The Human does not ask its Divine what it is to say or do.

Therefore, the Lord says:

On that day you will ask in my name;

and I do not tell you that

I shall ask the Father for you,

for the Father Himself loves you,

because you have loved me.

(John 16:26, 27)