Arcana Coelestia 3 (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... consequence of not reflecting upon it, is, that there is continually an influx of somewhat from within, which receives those things that thus enter and are insinuated from without, and arranges them in order; that which enters by influx, and which thus receives and arranges, is celestial Divine Good, which is from the Lord, hence the things received from without have their life, hence they have their order. and hence, as was said, they have their consanguinities and affinities with each other; from this it may appear, that man's rational principle is from celestial Divine Good as a father, according to what is said in this verse, 'She is the daughter of my father." In respect to the other arcanum, viz., that the rational principle is not conceived of spiritual truth as a mother, it may appear from what was said above, n. 1902; tor if spiritual truth, like celestial good, entered by influx from within, then man would be born to a complete and perfect rational principle, and at the same time to a complete and perfect scientific principle, so that he would have no occasion to learn any thing; but whereas the nature of man is such, that he is hereditarily in all evil, and consequently in every false principle, and thus that he would adulterate and profane essential truths, if they also entered by influx from within, and would thereby perish eternally, therefore it is provided of the Lord, that nothing of truth enters by influx through man's internal, but only through his external; hence it may appear that man's rational principle is not from spiritual truth as a mother, according to what is said in this verse, " Nevertheless she is not the daughter of my mother." According to like order it pleased the Lord that His rational principle also...