Saturday, June 29, 2019

DP 89 - Acting in Freedom; DP 92 - Conjunction With the Lord; DP 93 - And Again . . .

DP  89

Now because all willing springs from love,
and all understanding from wisdom,
it follows that the ability to will
springs from Divine love
and the ability to understand
from Divine wisdom,
thus both from the Lord,
who is Divine love itself and Divine wisdom itself.
It follows from this
that to act in freedom in accordance with one's reason
has no other origin.

DP 92

The conjunction of the Lord with a person
and the reciprocal conjunction of a person with the Lord
are effected by means of these two faculties.
Conjunction with the Lord and regeneration are one,
for to the extent someone is conjoined with the Lord,
to the same extent he is regenerate.
Consequently everything that we said above
about regeneration can be said of conjunction.
And what we say here about conjunction
can be said of regeneration.

DP 93

To look to God in one's life
is nothing else
than to refrain from evils as sins.




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