AR 933
. . . in the inmosts of the truths of doctrine and of life in the New Church
is the Lord in His Divine love,
from Whom all the goods which a person does
- apparently as of himself - flow forth.
[2] This takes place with those who go to the Lord immediately,
and shun evils because they are sins;
thus who will be in the Lord's New Church, which is the New Jerusalem.
For they who do not go immediately to the Lord
cannot be conjoined to Him, and thus neither to the Father,
and consequently cannot be in the love which is from the Divine;
for the looking to Him conjoins,
not a mere intellectual looking,
but an intellectual looking from the affection of the will;
and affection of the will is not given,
unless a person keeps His commandments;
wherefore the Lord says:
He that does My commandments,
he it is that loves me;
and I will come unto him,
and make an abode with him.
(John 14:21-24)
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[Interesting - the affection of the will is given, not a natural inclination.]
Natural inclination, aka natural disposition, is inherited (AC 2300), thus is not given by the Lord.
The particular affection of the will referred in the number is not inherited, thus the need for a second birth, or to be born again (which, in the presence of a person's cooperation, is gifted by the Lord--see, e.g., AC 1937).
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