Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 44

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44. Those with whom the internal, spiritual man has been opened into heaven to the Lord, are in the light of heaven, and in enlightenment from the Lord, and from this they are in intelligence and wisdom: they see truth because it is true, and perceive good because it is good. But those with whom the internal, spiritual man has been closed, do not know that there is an internal man, still less what the internal man is; neither do they believe that the Divine is, nor that there is a life after death; nor therefore, in those things which belong to Heaven and the Church. And because they are only in the light of the world, and in illumination from it, they believe in nature as being the Divine, they look upon the false as true, and perceive evil as good.


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