12. CAUSE (Causa). - (See also the other Index.)
How the end progresses through causes to effects, acts reciprocally, and accomplishes its circle (various things, 79-81 [CL 387, 400, 401]).
In every created thing there are end, cause and effect, also progression through them (82-84 [CL 400]).
End, cause and effect act as one (85, 86 [CL 387, 401]).
Illustrated by soul, spirit and body (86).
The love is the end, the mediate form of the love is the cause, and the ultimate form of the love is the effect (87, 88 [CL 387]).
In the Lord is the one only end which is love, the one only cause which is wisdom, and the one only effect which is use (89-96 [CL 400]).
These three proceed from the Lord as a one (97-100 (CL 400]).
All who are in love truly conjugial become angels after death; the converse also is true (743-752 [CL 48-53]).
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