Five Mem. Relations (Whitehead) n. 13

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13. "Since this office of instruction is enjoined upon us, we will teach you what is meant in the Word by the consummation of the age." And they said, "The consummation of the church is meant, which consummation is also called desolation and devastation, and this is when there are no longer truths of faith and goods of charity in any essence of their own, and thus all the ways to heaven are obstructed." They also said, "This consummation appears scarcely anywhere in the world, because those things which are of faith are not truths but falsities, and those things which are of charity are not goods but only deeds of their own love, which, when they go forth in the breath of the mouth, do not elevate themselves to heaven, but as soon as they rise up they are turned aside and fall down to the earth, just as does the water of a bath when cast upon the shoulders, or as rotten fruit falls from trees in the time of winter.


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