Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 25

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25. All good and truth is from the Lord. The Lord is very Good and very Truth, nos. 2011, 4151, 10336, 10619. The Lord is the Divine Good of the Divine Love, as to both the Divine and Human; and from Him proceeds the Divine Truth, nos. 3704, 3712, 4180, 4577. From the Lord's Divine Good proceeds the Divine Truth, comparatively as the light proceeds from the sun, nos. 3704, 3712, 4180, 4577. The Divine Truth which proceeds from the Lord appears in the heavens as light, and presents all the light of heaven, nos. 3195, 3223, 5400, 8694, 9399, 9548, 9684. The light of heaven which is Divine Truth united with Divine Good, illuminates both the sight and the understanding of angels and spirits, nos. 2776, 3138. Heaven is in light and heat, because in truth and good; for Divine Truth is the light there, and Divine Good is the heat there, nos. 3643, 9399, 9400; and in the work on Heaven and Hell, nos. 126-140. The Divine Truth which proceeds from the Divine Good of the Lord forms and arranges the angelic Heaven, nos. 3038, 9408, 9613, 10716, 10717. Divine Good united with the Divine Truth which is in the heavens, is called Divine Truth, no. 10196. The Divine Truth which proceeds from the Lord is the only reality, nos. 6880, 7004, 8200. Through the Divine Truth all things were made and created, nos. 2803, 2894, 5272, 7678. All power also belongs to the Divine Truth, no. 8200. From himself, man cannot do anything that is good, nor can he think anything that is true, nos. 874, 875, 876. The Rational of man from itself cannot perceive Divine Truth, nos. 2196, 2203, 2209. Truths which are not from the Lord, are from the man's self (proprium), and they are not truths, but only appear as truths, no. 8868. All good and truth is from the Lord, and nothing from man, nos. 1614, 2016, 2904, 4151, 9981. Goods and truths are goods and truths, only so far as they have the Lord in them, nos. 2904, 3061, 8480. Concerning the Divine Truth which proceeds immediately from the Lord, and the Divine Truth which proceeds mediately through the angels, and their influx with man, nos. 7055, 7056, 7058. The Lord flows with man into good, and through good into truths, no. 10153. Through good He flows into truths of every kind; chiefly into genuine truths, nos. 2531, 2554. The Lord does not flow into truths which have been separated from good; and there is no parallelism between the Lord and man, as to these, but as to good, nos. 1831, 1832, 3514, 3564. Doing good and doing truth for the sake of good and truth, means loving the Lord and loving the neighbour, no. 10336. They who are in the internal of the Word, of the Church, and of Worship, love to do good and truth for the sake of good and truth; but they who are in the external of these, apart from the internal, love to do good and truth for the sake of themselves and the world, no. 10683. What is meant by doing good and truth for the sake of good and truth, illustrated by examples, no. 10683.


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