Tuesday, January 28, 2014

AC 9341 - the sensuous; AC 9346 - evil turns away good absolutely

AC 9341 [3]
. . . the sensuous of a person
stands nearest to the world and the earth,
and receives its impressions from them,
it therefore acknowledges nothing else as good
than that which delights the body;
and nothing else as truth
than that which favors this delight.

AC 9346
. . . evils turn away the goods that are from the Lord;
namely, that those who are in evils
not only do not receive the goods
which continually flow into everyone from the Lord;
but also absolutely turn them away.
And therefore a person
cannot possibly receive the good of heaven
until he abstains from evils.

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