Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 22

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22. Concerning those who are in truths, and not in good; thus, concerning truths apart from good. Truths apart from for truths have all life from good, no. 3607. Thus they are as a body without a soul, nos. 8530, 9154. The knowledges of truth and good which are only in the memory, and not in the life, are believed by them to be truths, no. 5276. Those truths with which a man is only acquainted, and which he acknowledges from causes which proceed from the love of self and the world, are not appropriated by him, nor do they become his own, nos. 3402, 3834. But those he appropriates, which he acknowledges from causes which proceed form the love of self and the world, are not appropriated by him, nor do they become his own, nos. 3402, 3834. But those he appropriates, which he acknowledges for the sake of the very truth and good, no. 3849. Truths apart from good are not accepted by the Lord, no. 4368; neither do they save, no. 2261. They who are in truths apart from good, are not of the Church, no. 3963; neither can they be regenerated, no. 10367. The Lord flows into truths only through good, no. 10367. The separation of truth from good, nos. 5008, 5009, 5022, 5028. The quality of truth apart from good, and its quality from good, nos. 1949, 1950, 1964, 5951; from comparisons, no. 5830. Truth apart from good is morose, nos. 1949, 1950, 1951, 1964; in the spiritual world it appears hard, nos. 6359, 7068; and pointed, no. 2799. Truth apart from good is as the light of winter, in which all things of the earth grow torpid, and nothing is produced; but truth from good is as the light of spring and summer, in which all things blossom and are produced, nos. 2231, 3146, 3412, 3413. Such a wintry light is turned into thick darkness when light flows in from heaven; and then they who are in such truths, come into blindness and stupidity, nos. 3412, 3413. They who separate truths from good are in darkness, and in ignorance of truth, and in falsities, no. 9186. They cast themselves from falsities into evils, nos. 3325, 8094. The errors and falsities into which they plunge themselves, nos. 4721, 4730, 4776, 4783, 4925, 7779, 8313, 8765, 9222. The Word is closed for them, nos. 3773, 4783, 8780. They do not see and attend to all those things which the Lord spake concerning love and charity, and thus concerning good, nos. 1017, 3416. They do not know what good is, and thus what heavenly love and charity are, nos. 2417, 3603, 4136, 9995. They who are acquainted with the truths of faith, and live evilly, misapply these truths in the other life, for purposes of dominion; their quality and their lot, no. 4802. Truth Divine condemns to hell, but Divine Good raises to heaven, no. 2258. Truth Divine frightens, not so Divine Good, no. 4180. What is meant by being judged from truth, and what by being judged from good, no. 2335.


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