Wednesday, May 02, 2018

AC 5912 - Spiritual Good; AC 5922 - Glory; AC 5928 - Blood and Blood Vessels

AC 5912

. . . when good is in the first place,
and has dominion,
it continually produces truths.
It multiplies them around itself
and also around each truth,
and makes each truth like a little star,
in the center of which there is a bright light.
Nor does good only multiply truths around itself,
but it also produces truths from truths
by derivations in succession,
which are the "sons' sons," or grandsons; and so on.

AC 5922 [3]

Glory" in the supreme sense
is the Lord as to Divine truth,
thus it is the Divine truth which proceeds from the Lord.
But "glory" in the representative sense
is the good of love toward the neighbor, or charity,
which is the external good of the celestial kingdom
and the internal good of the spiritual kingdom of the Lord,
for this good in a genuine sense
is the Divine truth in heaven.

AC 5928

. . .  truths do not act from themselves,
but from the good which flows into the good
attached by itself to the truths.
The case herein is like the blood vessels in a living body.
Truths are as it were the vessels without the blood;
but good is as it were the blood;
when this pours itself into the vessels
which before were empty, it sets them in motion,
and also in reciprocal motion,
for they have received from the blood
a capacity of moving,
and as it were life.
From all this it is evident how the case is
with the conjunction of good with truths,
and with the reciprocal conjunction of truths with good.


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