AC 10201 - Intelligence, Wisdom; Faith; AC 10214 - The Rich and the Poor

AC 10201 [3, 5]

By intelligence and wisdom is not meant
the capacity to think and reason on every subject,
for this exists equally with the evil as with the good,
but there is meant
the capacity to see and perceive the truths and goods
which are of faith and charity,
and of love to the Lord.
This capacity exists solely
with those who are in enlightenment from the Lord,
and they are so far in enlightenment
as they are in love to Him
and in charity toward the neighbor.
For the Lord enters through good,
thus through the love and charity
that are with the person,
and leads into truths corresponding to the good;
but when the loves are alien,
as are those which are turned away
from the Lord and the neighbor
to self and the world,
then these loves lead him,
but from truths into falsities,
while the capacity to think and reason still remains.

. . . the faith of everyone is such as is his love . . ..

AC 10214

. . . "the rich shall not give more,
and the poor shall not give less,
from the half of the shekel,
to give an uplifting to Jehovah,"
(Exodus 30:15)

means that all, of whatever ability they may be,
must ascribe all things of truth and good to the Lord . . .