Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 32

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32. Nothing is more important to know, than how the will and the understanding make one mind. They make one mind, even as good and truth make one; for there is a like marriage between the will and the understanding, as there is between good and truth. What the quality of this marriage is, may appear fully from what has been adduced above concerning good and truth; namely, that as good is the very Esse of a thing, and truth its Existere from that Esse, so the will with man, is the very Esse of his life, and the understanding the Existere of his life from that Esse; for the good which belongs to the will, forms and exhibits itself to the sight in the understanding.


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