Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 129

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129. FROM THE HEAVENLY ARCANA.

A life of piety apart from a life of charity does not avail, but when combined with it, it is of use, no. 8252, et seq. Outward holiness apart from inward holiness is not holy, nos. 2190, 10177. Concerning the quality of those in the other life, who have lived in outward, and not inward, holiness, nos. 951, 952. There is an internal and an external of the Church, no. 1098. There is internal and external worship; the quality of each, nos. 1083, 1098, 1100, 1151, 1153. It is internal things that constitute worship, no. 1175. External worship apart from internal, is no worship, nos. 1094, 7724. There is an internal in worship, if the man's life is the life of charity, nos. 1100, 1151, 1153. A man is in true worship when he is in love and charity, that is, when he is in the good of life, nos. 1618, 7724, 10242. The quality of worship is according to good, no. 2190. Real worship is a life according to the commandments of the Church which are derived from the Word, nos. 7884, 9921, 10143, 10153, 10205, 10645. True worship with a man is from the Lord, and not from the man himself, nos. 10203, 10299. The Lord desires worship from a man for the sake of the man's salvation, and not for the sake of His glory, nos. 4593, 8263, 10646. It is believed that the Lord desires worship from the man for the sake of glory; but they who believe thus do not know what Divine glory is, nor that Divine Glory consists in the salvation of the human race; this glory is imparted to a man, when he attributes nothing to himself, and when he puts away Self (proprium) by humbling himself; for the Divine is then first able to flow in, nos. 4347, 4593, 5957, 7550, 8263, 10646. Humility of the heart exists with a man from the acknowledgment of Self; which means, that he is nothing but evil, and that from himself he has no ability; and from a consequent acknowledgment of the Lord, which means, that from Him there is nothing but good, and that He can do all, nos. 2327, 3994, 7478. Only into an humble heart can the Divine flow; because so far as a man is in humility, so far he is removed from Self (proprium), and thus from the love of self, nos. 3994, 4347, 5957. From this it follows, that the Lord does not desire humility for His sake, but for the sake of the man, so that he may be in a state of receiving the Divine, nos. 4347, 5957. Apart from humility worship is not worship, nos. 2327, 2423, 8873. The quality of external humility without any internal, nos. 5420, 9377. The quality of humility of the heart, which is internal humility, no. 7478. With the wicked there is no humility of the heart, no. 7640. Those who have no charity and no faith, are in external worship without any internal, no. 1200. If the love of self and the love of the world reign interiorly with a man, his worship is external without any internal, no matter how it may appear in the external form, nos. 1182, 10307, 10308, 10309. External worship in which the love of self reigns interiorly, as is the case with those who are from Babylon, is profane, nos. 1304, 1306-1308, 1321, 1322, 1326. To imitate heavenly affections in worship, when a man is in evils from the love of self, is infernal, no. 10309. What the quality of external worship is when it proceeds from internal worship, and when it does not, may be seen and concluded from what has been said and adduced above concerning the Internal and External Man. Further particulars concerning those who renounce the world and those who do not renounce it; the quality of such, and their lot in the other life may be seen in the work on Heaven and Hell, in the two chapters which treat of the Rich and Poor in Heaven, nos. 357-365; and of the Life that leads to Heaven, nos. 528-535.


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