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THE ANGELS SEE ONLY A MAN'S LOVE.
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genuine truths when there is in them the good of love to Him and love towards the neighbor, or charity. In the other life also the good which is inwardly hid with them, dissipates the appearances and makes bare the spiritual or genuine truths. (A. E. 625.)


THE SPIRITUAL AFFECTION FOR TRUTH.

They who are in the Lord are kept in the spiritual affection of truth. And they who are in this affection may indeed receive falsities, yet not with their full consent, but only so far as they do not disagree with good and truths thence derived. Therefore when they who are in the spiritual affection of truth imbibe falsities, they easily reject them when they hear truths, as well in this world as in the other. Such is the nature of the spiritual affection of truth. Therefore they who are in this affection have the faculty of understanding truths, and are perfected in intelligence and wisdom to eternity. But they who are not in this affection refuse both to understand and hear truths; wherefore they are not in any faculty of understanding them. That this is the case has been made evident to me from frequent experience in the spiritual world.

Now inasmuch as the angels of heaven do not perceive anything else in man but his love, and thence his affection, desires and delights, consequently his ends on account of which he thinks in this or that manner, therefore when they perceive in him the love of truth

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