Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 120

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120. FROM THE HEAVENLY ARCANA.

Those who do not know that all things in the universe have relation to truth and good, and to their mutual conjunction, so that anything may be produced, do not know that all things of the Church have relation to faith and love, and to their mutual conjunction, so that the Church may be with a man, nos. 7752-7762, 9186, 9224. All things in the universe which are according to Divine order have relation to good and truth, and to their mutual conjunction, nos. 2452, 3166, 4390, 4409, 5232, 7256, 10122, 10555. Truths belong to faith and goods to love, nos. 4352, 4997, 7178, 10367. This is the reason why Good and Truth have been treated of in the present Doctrine; wherefore from the things adduced, conclusions may be drawn respecting Faith and Love; and by putting love in the place of good, and faith in the place of truth, and then making the application, it may be known what their quality is when they are conjoined, and what it is when they are not conjoined. Those who do not know that each and all things with a man have relation to the understanding and will, and to their mutual conjunction, so that a man may be a man, do not know clearly that all things of the Church have relation to faith and love, and to their mutual conjunction, so that the Church may be in a man, nos. 2231, 7752-7754, 9224, 9995, 10122. Man has two faculties, of which one is called the understanding and the other the will, nos. 641, 803, 3623, 3539. The understanding is designed for the reception of truths, and consequently for the things belonging to faith and the will for the reception of goods, and consequently for the things belonging to love, nos. 9300, 9930, 10064. This is the reason why the Will and Understanding have also been treated of in the present Doctrine; for from the things adduced there, conclusions may be drawn respecting faith and love; and, by considering love as being in the will, and faith in the understanding, it may be known what their quality is when they are conjoined, and what it is when they are not conjoined. Those who do not know that a man has an Internal and an External, that is, an internal and an external man, and that all things of heaven have relation to the internal man, and all things of the world to the external man, and that their conjunction is like that of the spiritual and the natural worlds, do not know what spiritual faith and spiritual love are, nos. 4292, 5132, 8610. There is an internal and an external man, and the internal is the spiritual man, and the external the natural man, nos. 978, 1015, 4459, 6309, 9701-9709. Faith is spiritual, and consequently faith is faith so far as it is in the internal man; likewise love, nos. 1594, 3987, 8078. And so far as the truths which belong to faith are loved, so far they become spiritual, nos. 1594, 3987. This is the reason why the Internal and the External Man have been treated of; for from the things which have been adduced there, conclusions may be drawn respecting Faith and Love, what their quality is when they are spiritual, and what, when they are not spiritual; consequently how far they are of the Church, and how far they are not of the Church.


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