Thursday, January 14, 2016

AE 98 - "works", "toil", "endurance"

AE 98

. . . all things done by man
flow out from the interiors belonging to his mind,
also that the mind is the all in everything that man does,
and that the body is a mere obedience
through which is exhibited, 

in a form visible before the eye,
that which the mind wills and thinks.
This is why those external things here mentioned,
"works," "toil," and "endurance,"
signify willing, thinking, and consequent doing,
or what is the same,
loving, believing, and consequent presenting in act.  

[3]
. . . deeds are the will in act.
. . . for a person wills what he loves,
and he loves what he wills.

[5]  

"Toil," in the spiritual sense,
 means all things that man thinks,
because spiritual toiling is thinking.
And "endurance" signifies all things that man does,
because "to endure" here means to be assiduous,
and to put away the obstructions in the natural man
that are continually rising up and hindering.



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