Last Judgment (Post) (Rogers) n. 240

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240. [243.] 103. People who worship the Lord out of love do so in accordance with all their truths of faith. Consequently the more truths one has, the fuller and more acceptable his worship. That is because love stirs up everything that has entered in consequence of it into the intellect, and the person is then conscious only of what he is saying or praying at the time, while all other considerations are held in some connection with it, and are not in their usual order of priority. When love produces truths, the truths are then ordered by the Lord into the form of heaven, and the person then venerates Him as though in the light of heaven. I have learned this from experience in the spiritual world. Whenever I see someone, I have come to mind then everything that I know or have heard about him. Angels see these things in their own order of priority. And so on. From this it is apparent what worship of the Lord is like by those who are possessed of genuine truths out of love for Him.


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