DLW 399
(1) Love or the will is a person's very life.
This
follows from the correspondence
of the heart with the will . . .
for as the heart functions in the body,
so the will does in the
mind.
Moreover, as all the constituents of the body
depend for their
existence and motion on the heart,
so all the constituents of the mind
depend for their existence and life on the will.
We say on the will, but
we mean on love,
because the will is the recipient vessel of love,
and
love is life itself,
and love which is life itself
comes from the Lord alone.
It
can be known from the heart
and its extension throughout the body
by
means of the arteries and veins
that love or the will is a person's
life,
because things that correspond to each other
function similarly,
with the difference
that one is natural and the other spiritual.
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