AC 6262 - Round and Round; AC 6266 - Bowing

AC 6262

. . . the external cannot be in love
toward the internal,
except by means of influx and elevation
from the internal.
For the very love which is felt in the external
is of the internal,
and because in order to the producing of any effect
every acting must have its reacting or reciprocal,
and the acting is the cause,
and the reacting is the thing caused,
therefore reaction is also of action,
as the thing caused is of the cause;
for all the force in the thing caused
is from the cause.
This is the case with reaction
in every single thing in universal nature.


AC 6266

. . . bowing is a bodily act that corresponds
to humiliation of mind;
consequently, those who adore God from the heart,
thus bow themselves.

. . . the good of the will
and the truth of the intellectual in the natural
cannot from themselves
humble themselves before the Lord,
but only from the internal by means of influx;
for without influx
through the internal into the natural,
there is nothing of will and understanding therein,
and not even anything of life;
for the internal is the intermediate through which
is life from the Lord therein.