Divine Love and Wisdom (Rogers) n. 417

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417. Now because love corresponds to the heart, and the intellect to the lungs, the foregoing observations can be confirmed by their correspondence-thus how the intellect can be elevated above the native love even into a state of wisdom, and how the intellect is drawn back from its elevated state by that love if the love is merely natural. A person possesses a double respiration, one of the body and the other of the spirit. These two respirations can be separated, and they can also be conjoined. In merely natural people, in hypocrites especially, they are separated, but in spiritual and sincere people rarely. Consequently the merely natural person and hypocrite in whom the intellect has been elevated, and who retains in memory therefore many matters that are matters of wisdom, can in the company of others speak wisely from thought based on memory; but when he is not in the company of others, he thinks not in accord with his memory but in accord with his spirit, thus in accord with his love. He also breathes in a like manner, since thought and respiration function correspondingly. We have already shown above that the structure of the lungs is such that they can breathe in consequence of blood from the heart, and in consequence of blood from outside the heart.


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