AE 696 - Knowing, Living, Salvation, Worship

 AE 696 [1, 6, 11]

. . . in the measure that a person
knows the truths of faith
and lives according to them
does he worship the Lord,
for worship is not from a person
but from the truths from good
that are with a person,
since these are from the Lord,
and the Lord is in them.

. . . all are saved who fear God
and live in mutual love,
in uprightness of heart
and in sincerity from a religious principle,
for all such,
by an intuitive faith in God and by a life of charity,
are consociated as to their souls
with the angels of heaven,
and are thus conjoined to the Lord and saved.
For after death
everyone comes to his own in the spiritual world,
with whom he was closely consociated as to his spirit
while he was living in the natural world.

. . . Divine truth causes fear
in that it condemns the evil to hell;
but Divine good does not,
since so far as it is received through truths
by man and angel
it takes away condemnation.

. . . all internal spiritual worship of God,
which consists in the good of life,
must be according to the truths of doctrine,
because these must teach.
. . . internal spiritual worship
is thinking and understanding truths,
thus thinking in a reverent and holy way about God,
which is "fearing Him,"
and external natural worship is doing truths, that is,
keeping the commandments and the words of the law.