AC 10199 - Spices Denote What Is Grateful

AC 10199

It is from their odor
that spices denote what is grateful,
for "odor" means perceptivity;
consequently a sweet odor
means a grateful perceptivity,
and an offensive odor an ungrateful perceptivity.
For all things which are perceived by a person
through the organs of sense mean spiritual things,
which bear relation
to the good of love and to the truths of faith,
 as do smell, taste, sight, hearing, and touch;
for this reason "smell" means
 the perceptivity of interior truth from the good of love;
"taste" means the perception and affection
of knowing and of being wise;
"sight," the understanding of the truths of faith;
"hearing," perceptivity from the good of faith,
and from obedience;
and "touch" in general,
communication, transfer, and reception.
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The definition of perceptivity - an insight;
the ability to understand inner qualities or relationships.