AC 3957 - A Person Ought Have a Care

AC 3957 [7]

. . . heaven, or the Lord through heaven,
is continually working and inflowing with good and truth;
and that if there is not then in a person --
in their interior person
which lives after the death of the body --
some recipient of good and truth,
as a ground or plane,
the good and truth that flow in cannot be received;
and for this reason
a person while living in the body
ought to be solicitous
to procure such a plane within himself;
but this cannot be procured
except by thinking what is good toward the neighbor,
and by willing what is good to him,
and therefore doing what is good to him,
and thus by acquiring the delight of life in such things.
This plane is acquired by means of
charity toward the neighbor,
that is, by means of mutual love;
and is what is called conscience.
Into this plane
the good and truth from the Lord can inflow,
and be received therein . . ..