Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 5982

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5982. To enable man to be in freedom, the Lord places him in a position in which he is poised between evil and good, and between falsity and truth. He accomplishes this by means of evil spirits positioned on one side and angels on the other. For if he is to be saved a person must be in freedom, and in freedom be led away from evil and towards good. Whatever is not done by him in freedom does not remain because he does not make it his own. That freedom comes as a result of his being held poised between the two sides.


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