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IT IS GOOD THAT SAVES.
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Truths cannot be conjoined to evil unless they be falsified; this is effected by sinister interpretations, and thereby perversions. Hence it is that the doctrinals of the church appertaining to such, are called doctrinals of the false, although they have been truths. For it is a canon that the truths appertaining to those who are in evil of life, are falsified, and the falsities appertaining to those who are in the good of life, are verified [made true]. (A. C. 8149.)


NOT TRUTH BUT GOOD SAVES.

Every one is such as his good is. By good is meant love; for everything which is loved is called good. That his love or good makes the man, is known to every one who explores another. For when he has explored him, he leads him by his love whithersoever he desires, insomuch that when he is held in his love he is no longer master of himself; and then the reasons which are against the love are of no avail, but those which are with the love are potent. That this is the case is very manifest in the other life. All spirits are there known from their loves; and when they are held in them they cannot do anything contrary to them, for to act contrary to them is to act contrary to themselves; they are therefore the forms of their loves.

They who are in heaven are forms of celestial charity and love, of such beauty as cannot be described; but they who are in hell are forms of their loves which are

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