AC 301
When men have become inverted orders of life, and are unwilling to live, or to become wise, except from themselves and from their proprium, they reason about everything they hear respecting faith, as to whether it is so, or not; and as they do this from themselves and from their own things of sense and of memory-knowledge, it must needs lead to denial, and consequently to blasphemy and profanation, so that at length they do not scruple to mix up profane things with holy. When a man becomes like this, he is so condemned in the other life that there remains for him no hope of salvation. For things mixed up by profanation remain so mixed up, so that whenever any idea of something holy presents itself, an idea of something profane that is conjoined with it is also there, the consequence of which is that the person cannot be any society except one of the damed. ... The separation of profane and holy ideas when thus conjoined cannot be effected except by means of such infernal torment that if a man were aware of it, he would as carefully avoid profanation as he would avoid hell itself.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Of course, as we tend to think our experiences and thoughts as the best way, so we have to be especially careful to look to the Lord only. He has to fill our minds and hearts, and we must put our bodily selves out of the picture. The Lord's order is far more in-depth and beyond this world! Often we cannot be aware of Him unless we practice putting Him first so He can fill us, not us fill us.
Post a Comment