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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: regards all the interiors of his rational and natural mind, of beinsr elevated by the Lord to Himself; and of believing in Him, loving Him, and thus seeing Him; and that he is able to receive intelligence and wisdom, and to speak from reason. Hence also he lives for ever: but the arrangements and provisions which are made by the Lord in this inmost principle] do not flow openly into the perception of any angel, because they are above his thought, and exceed his wisdom. 40. These are general truths respecting the three heavens, but in what follows we shall speak of each heaven in particular. THE HEAVENS CONSIST OF INNUMERABLE SOCIETIES. 41. The angels of each heaven are not all together in one place, but are distinguished into higher or lower societies, according to the differences of their love and faith. They who are in similar good form one society. There is an infinite variety of goodness in the heavens, and the quality of every angel is determined by his own goodness. 42. The angelic socities in heaven are also distant from one another, according to the general and specific differences of their goodness; for in the spiritual world distances originate solely in differences of the state of the interiors, and consequently, in the heavens they arise from differences in the state of love. Angels who differ much are far apart, and they who differ little are near, for similarity brings them together. 43. All in one society are distinctly arranged according to the same law. They who are more perfect, that i, who excel in goodness, and therefore in love, wisdom, and intelligence, are in the middle; and they who excel less are towards the circumference, and are distant according to the degree in which their perfection diminishes. This arrangement may he compared to light...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217296045 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217296041 |
| Weight | 0.92 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 In |
| List Price | $21.89 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 280 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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