DP 74 [2]
Every affection has its own partner as a mate.
An affection of a natural
love has knowledge,
an affection of a spiritual love intelligence,
and
an affection of a celestial love wisdom.
For without its partner as a
mate,
affection has no reality,
but is like being without expression,
or
like substance without form,
of which nothing can be predicated (based).
It is
because of this that every created thing
has present in it something
assignable to a marriage of goodness and truth . . ..
DP 75
. . .a person can be elevated from
natural knowledge into spiritual
intelligence,
and from that into celestial wisdom,
and from these two,
intelligence and wisdom,
can look to the Lord and so be conjoined with
Him,
as a result of which he lives to eternity.
As regards his affection
this elevation would not be possible, however,
if he did not have the
ability from rationality
to elevate his intellect,
and from freedom to
will it.
DP 77 [3]
Now because, for the sake of reception and conjunction,
the Lord wills
that whatever a person does freely
in accordance with his reason
appear
to him as his own doing,
and this accords with reason itself,
it follows
that a person can by virtue of his reason
will something because it
means his eternal happiness,
and by imploring the Lord's Divine power,
do it.
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