TCR 737-739 - The Soul's Delight

TCR 737 [5]

The soul's delight is derived from
love and wisdom proceeding from the Lord;
and as love produces effects,
and does so through wisdom,
they both reside in the effect;
and the effect is use.
This delight flows into the soul from the Lord,
descending through
the higher and lower regions of the mind
into all the bodily senses,
and in them attains its fullness.
From the presence of this delight
joy becomes real joy,
becoming also eternal from its Eternal Source.
. . . If, then, a person is in this union,
he is in a heavenly paradise,
and therefore is in heaven.

TCR 739 [7-8]

. . . the joys of heaven and eternal happiness
do not depend upon place,
but upon the state of person's life;
and that the state of heavenly life
is from love and wisdom.
As use contains love and wisdom,
the state of heavenly life arises from
the union of love and wisdom in use.
It is the same if we speak of
charity, faith and good works;
for charity is love,
faith is truth from which is wisdom,
and good works are uses.
Moreover, in our spiritual world there are places,
as in the natural world;
otherwise there would be
no habitations and separate abodes.
Nevertheless place with us
is only an appearance of place
according to the state of love and wisdom,
that is, of charity and faith.

Every one who becomes an angel
bears within himself his own heaven,
because he bears the love of his own heaven . . ..