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simplicity to believe that the Lord is wrathful, that he punishes, repents, and grieves, and is thus restrained from evil and led to do good, such belief is not injurious to him, because it leads him to admit also that the Lord sees everything. And when he is principled in such a faith, he is capable of being enlightened afterwards on other points, at least after death if not before. But it is altogether otherwise with those who, from the conjoined influence of selfish and worldly love, after assuming certain principles, persuade themselves of their truth. (A. C. 589.)

Goods are infinite in variety, and they have their quality from truths. Hence the good becomes such as the truths are. Truths are seldom genuine, but are appearances of truth, and also are falsities, but still not opposite to truths; nevertheless when these flow-in into good, which is the case when the life is formed according to them from ignorance in which there is innocence and when the end is to do good, then they are regarded by the Lord and in heaven not as falsities, but as the various aspects of truth; and according to the quality of innocence they are accepted as truths. (A. C. 7887.)

It is to be observed that the false and what is falsified cannot be appropriated, as the false and what is falsified, to any one who is in good and therefore is willing to be in truth, but to him who is in evil and therefore is not willing to be in truth. The reason