Saturday, February 01, 2014

AC 9392 - enlightenment & instruction from the Word

AC 9382 [2, 3]
Everyone is enlightened and instructed from the Word
according to his affection of truth, 

and longing for it,
and according to his capacity of receiving it.
Those who are in enlightenment .
are in the light of heaven as to their internal person;
for it is the light of heaven
which enlightens a person in the truths and goods of faith.
. . . But they who are not in the affection of truth from good,
and from this in the desire to be wise,
are blinded rather than enlightened when they read the Word,
for they are not in the light of heaven;
and from the light of the world,
which is called the light of nature,
they see only what agrees with worldly things;
and thus from the fallacies in which the external senses are,
they embrace falsities which appear to them as truths.

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