Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 141

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141. FREEDOM.

ALL freedom belongs to love; for what a man loves he does freely. Hence also all freedom belongs to the will - for what a man loves he also wills; and since love and will constitute a man's life, so also does freedom. From this it may appear what freedom is, namely, that it is what belongs to the love and the will, and hence to the life of a man; from whence it is that what a man does from freedom appears to him as though it came from Self.


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