AE 832 - Living and Knowing Spiritual Truths

 AE 832 [3]

All love becomes spiritual
by means of truths from the Word
in the measure in which a person
acknowledges them
and sees them in his understanding
and afterwards loves them,
that is, does them from the will.

. . . if you say that spiritual truths cannot be seen,
and that the understanding cannot be so far opened
so long as a person is in the world,
let it be known
that he who loves truth from truth,
that is, because it is truth,
can see spiritual truths;
and those which he does not see in the world,
he sees afterwards in heaven.
For it is the love itself of truth
that receives the light of heaven,
which enlightens the understanding.
Moreover, every one can receive in thought
and can understand truths
more than he himself knows . . ..