AC 4312 [3]
. . . no one can be wise and intelligent in regard to truth
unless he is in good, that is in charity,
because all truth is from good,
and looks to good;
so that those who are without good
cannot understand truth,
and are not even willing to know it.
AC 3417 [3]
. . . heavenly delight . . . results from
humiliation and the affection of serving others --
that is, the delight of love to the Lord
and of charity toward the neighbor --
consequently of the blessedness
and happiness derived from them.
. . .a single angel has greater power
than myriads of infernal spirits,
yet not from himself, but from the Lord;
and he has it from the Lord
in proportion that he believes
that he has no power from himself,
thus that he is the least:
and this he can believe in so far as he is in humiliation
and in the affection of being of service to others,
that is,
in so far as he is in the good of love to the Lord,
and of charity toward the neighbor.
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