DLIFE 80, 81, 82, 86 - Stealing Is Opposite to Sincerity

DLIFE 80

To "steal," in the natural sense,
means not only to commit theft and robbery,
but also to defraud,
and under some pretext take from another his goods.
But in the spiritual sense to "steal"
means to deprive another
of his truths of faith and his goods of charity.
And in the highest sense to "steal"
means to take away from the Lord that which is His,
and attribute it to one's self,
and thus to claim
righteousness and merit for one's self.
These are the "thefts of every kind."

DLIFE 81

The evil of theft enters more deeply into a person
than any other evil,
because it is conjoined with cunning and deceit;
and cunning and deceit insinuate themselves
even into the spiritual mind of a person
in which is his thought with understanding.

DLIFE 82

That in proportion as anyone shuns theft as a sin,
in the same proportion he loves sincerity,
is because theft is also fraud,
and fraud and sincerity are two opposite things,
so that in proportion as anyone is not in theft
in the same proportion he is in sincerity.

DLIFE 86 [4]

So long as a person does not shun evils as sins,
the lusts of evils block up the interiors
of the natural mind on the part of the will,
being like a thick veil there,
and like a black cloud beneath the spiritual mind,
and they prevent its being opened.
On the other hand, 
the moment a person shuns evils as sins,
the Lord inflows from heaven,
takes away the veil, dispels the cloud,
opens the spiritual mind,
and so introduces the person into heaven.