Friday, February 25, 2022

AC 3080 - Beauty; AC 3085 - Internal, Heavenly Food

AC 3080

. . . all beauty is from good in which there is innocence.
Good itself when it flows in
from the internal person into the external, makes beauty;
and from this is all human beauty.
This may likewise be seen from the fact
that no one is affected by the face of another,
but by the affection which beams forth from the face;
and that they who are in good
are affected by the affection of good which is there,
and in the measure in which
there is innocence in the good.
Thus it is the spiritual in the natural which affects,
but not the natural without the spiritual.
In like manner those who are in good
are affected by little children,
who appear to them beautiful
in proportion to the innocence of charity
in their faces, gestures, and speech.

AC 3085 [2, 3]

. . . the internal sense is principally for the angels;
and this in order that
through the Word there may be communication
between heaven and people . . .
because heavenly food is nothing else
than all that which is of intelligence and wisdom;
and to them
the blessedness of wisdom and intelligence
is whatever treats of the Lord.

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