Sunday, October 07, 2018

AC 9492 - The Protection of Divine Good; AC 9293 - Soil and Seed; AC 9503 - The Divine Truth

AC 9492   

. . . for in the minds of those 

who are in the hells 
is seated hatred against the neighbor
and hatred against God;
and therefore they are infuriated
when they perceive the bliss of the upright.
But the good that proceeds from the Lord,
which encompasses heaven in general,
and the heavenly societies
and individual angels there in particular,
protects and represses the assaults,
and this continually.

AC 9293

. . . good is like the soil, 

and truth is like the seed.

AC 9503

That Divine truth is the Lord in heaven,
is because the Lord is good itself and truth itself,
both of which proceed from Him,
and that which proceeds from Him is Himself.
Hence it is that the Lord is heaven;
for the Divine truth which is from Him
and is received by the angels,
makes heaven;
consequently the more perfectly
the angels receive the Divine truth
which is from the Lord,
thus the more perfectly they receive the Lord,
the more perfect human forms they are,
and finally so perfect 

that their beauty surpasses belief.
. . . for they are heavenly loves and charities in form,
which form is the truly human form.
The reason why the angels are human forms,
is that the Divine in heaven is the Lord,
and they who receive from Him
the Divine truth in good
are images of Him. 




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