AE 675 - Having and Living Truths. "Bread"; AE 677 - How Do You Regard Life?

AE 675 [7, 9, 12

. . . those who possess truths
both in the memory and in the life
enrich themselves in intelligence to eternity . . ..

Those who do not acquire
spiritual intelligence in the world through
the knowledges of truth and good from the Word are evil,
as can be seen from this,
that all are born into evils of every kind,
and these evils are removed
only by means of Divine truths from the Word,
that is, by applying truths to uses,
and thus receiving them in the life.
So to those who have gained it is said:

Good and faithful servants,
you have been faithful over a few things,
I will set you over many things;
enter you into the joy of your Lord.
(Matthew 25: 21, 23)

. . . "bread" means everything that nourishes the soul,
and in particular the good of love . . ..

AE 677 [4]

. . . the good regard the life of the soul
and not so much the life of the body
as the chief and final thing,
while the evil regard the life of the body
and not so much the life of the soul
as the chief and final thing;
in fact, the evil do not in heart believe in that life,
and such as do believe
still love only the things that are of the body,
such as the appetites and pleasures of various kinds.
But with the good the reverse is true.