AC 10219 - "As From Self"

AC 10219

It is said "as from self,"
because the goods which a man does
he does as from himself,
nor does he perceive otherwise
until he is in faith from love.
For goods flow in from the Lord
and are received by man,
and those which are received
are at first felt no otherwise
than as in himself and from himself;
nor is it perceived that they are from the Lord
until he comes into knowledge,
and afterward into acknowledgment from faith.
For before this he cannot reflect
that anything flows in from the Divine;
nor can he at all perceive this,
that is, be sensible of it in himself,
until he begins to will and to love
that it be so.