AC 7433 - The Noisome Fly; AC 7437 - Thinking; AC 7439 - Mercy

AC 7433 - The Noisome Fly - Exodus 8:17-18

. . . "behold I send against you, and against your servants,
and against your people, and into your houses,
the noisome fly"
means that they would have malevolent falsity
in all things and in each;
"and the houses of the Egyptians
shall be filled with the noisome fly,
and also the land whereon they are"
means that the falsities of malevolence
will take possession of all things of the natural mind;
and I will sever in that day the land of Goshen,
upon which My people stands,
that no noisome fly be there"
means that they shall not be able to infest
by falsities of malevolence
those who are of the spiritual church,
although they will be near them . . .

AC 7437 [3] - Thinking

. . . those who are in evils
cannot do otherwise than think from evils to falsities.
It is the same also with those who are in a state of good,
in that they cannot do otherwise
than think from good to truths;
for good and truth are conjoined,
and also evil and falsity,
insomuch that he who knows that anyone is in good,
can (he) know that he is in the truth of his good;
and that he who is in evil is in the falsity of his evil;
and that he is in this falsity
in proportion as he excels
in the gift of reasoning and perverting.
And also, in proportion as he is in the fear
of the loss of reputation
for the sake of gain and honors,
and in proportion as he desires
to be in the freedom of doing evil.
Strange to say,
after such persons have
for some time
defended evils by means of falsities,
they at last persuade themselves
that evils are goods,
and that falsities are truths.

AC 7439 [3] - Mercy

. . . a person must be prepared for heaven
by his whole life in the world,
and that this is done of the Lord's mercy,
and that none are admitted into heaven
from mercy alone,
regardless of how they have lived in the world.