LJC 39-40 - The English

LJC 30-40

There are two states of thought with a person,
an external and an internal state;
a person is in the external state in the natural world,
in the internal state in the spiritual world:
these states make one with the good,
but not with the evil.
What a person is as to his internal,
is rarely manifest in the natural world,
because from his infancy,
he has wished to be moral,
and has learned to seem so.
But what he is,
clearly appears in the spiritual world,
for spiritual light discloses it,
and also a person is then a spirit,
and the spirit is the internal person.
Now, since it has been given me to be in that light,
and from it, to see what the internal is
in the people of various kingdoms,
by an interaction of many years
with angels and spirits,
it behooves me to manifest it,
because of its importance.
Here I will say something of
the noble English nation only.

The more excellent of the English nation
are in the center of all Christians.
The reason why they are in the center is,
because they have interior intellectual light.
This is not apparent to any one in the natural world,
but it is conspicuous in the spiritual world.
This light they derive from the liberty of thinking,
and from that of speaking and of writing,
in which they are.
With others, who are not in such liberty,
intellectual light is darkened because it has no outlet.
. . . As soon as anything is said by these people,
or as soon as anything they approve is read,
that light shines forth,
and seldom before.