Thursday, July 06, 2017

AC 2551 - What Delights the Angels; Ac 2554 - Thinking Spiritual Truth Is Not Important

AC 2551 [1-2]

The internal sense of the Word
is especially for the angels;
and therefore is adapted
to their perceptions and thoughts.
They are in their delightful,
indeed in their blessed and happy states,
when they are thinking about the Lord,
His Divine and His Human,
and how the Human was made Divine;
for they are encompassed
with a celestial and spiritual sphere
which is full of the Lord;
so that it may be said 

that they are in the Lord.
Consequently nothing is
more blessed and happy to them
than to think in accordance with the things
that belong to that sphere and its derivative affection.

At the same time, moreover,
they are instructed and perfected,
especially in this:
how the Lord by degrees and of His own power,
as He grew up,
made Divine the human into which He was born;
and thus how, by means of the knowledges
that He revealed to Himself
He perfected His rational,
dispersed by successive steps its shadows,
and introduced it into Divine light.
These and innumerable other things
are presented before the angels
in a celestial and spiritual manner,
with a thousand and a thousand representatives,
in the light of life,
when the Word is being read.

AC 2554 [2]

. . . if men were to have no regard for spiritual truth,
celestial good would thereby also perish;
for when the former is rejected
the latter perishes . . ..

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