DLW 242
Spiritual light flows in
through the three degrees in a person,
but not spiritual warmth
except to the extent
that the person
refrains from evils as being sins
and looks to the Lord.
From
what we have demonstrated previously,
it follows that the sun in
heaven
is the first emanation
of the Lord's Divine love and
wisdom,
and that from it emanate
light and warmth -
light from His wisdom, and warmth from His
love;
that light is the vehicle of wisdom,
and warmth the
vehicle of love;
and that to the extent a person comes into
wisdom,
to the same extent he comes into that Divine light,
and
to the extent he comes into love,
to the same extent
he comes
into that Divine warmth.
From what we have demonstrated previously
it follows also that
there are three degrees
of light and three degrees of warmth,
or
three degrees of wisdom
and three degrees of love,
and that
these degrees
have been formed in people
in order that people
may be recipients
of the Lord's Divine love and wisdom,
thus of
the Lord.
The point to be now demonstrated here
is that spiritual light
flows in
through the three degrees in a person,
but not
spiritual warmth except to the extent
that the person refrains
from evils as being sins
and looks to the Lord.
Or in other
words,
that a person is capable of receiving wisdom
even to the
third degree,
but not love except to the extent
that the person
refrains from evils
as being sins and looks to the Lord.
Or to
put it in still other words,
that a person's intellect may be
elevated into wisdom,
but not his will
except to the extent
he
refrains from evils as being sins.
DLW 243
I have often seen simple spirits
who knew only that there is a
God
and that the Lord was born a man,
and scarcely anything
else,
and I have perceived that they fully understood
the
secrets of angelic wisdom,
almost as angels do.
And not only
they,
but also many of the devil's crew.
Yet they understood
these things
when they heard them,
and not when they thought to
themselves.
For when they heard them,
a light entered in from
above,
but when they thought to themselves,
then no other light
could enter
than such as corresponded to their warmth or love.
Consequently, after they heard these secrets
and comprehended
them,
upon turning their attention away
they retained nothing.
Indeed, those who were of the devil's crew
then rejected these
things and utterly denied them.
The reason was that the fire of
their love and its light,
being an illusory fire and light,
induced in them a darkness
by which the heavenly light entering
in from above
was extinguished.
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