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the loves of self and the world; consequently they are forms of hatred and revenge, and therefore such monsters as cannot be described.

Since the whole man is such, therefore, as his love is, it is evident that the Lord cannot be present in evil love, but in the good love in man, that is, in his good. It is believed that the Lord is present in the truth which is called the truth of faith; but he is not present in truth without good. But where good is, there He is present in truth by good; and so much present in truth as it leads to good and proceeds from good.

Truth without good cannot be said to be inwardly in man. It is only in his memory as something scientific, which does not enter him and make him a man until it becomes of his life; and it then becomes of his life when he loves it, and from love lives according to it. When this is the case, then the Lord dwells in him. This also He teaches in John; "He that hath my commandments and doeth them, lie it is that loveth me; and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him; and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with him," xiv. 21, 23. (A. C. 10,153.)


LIP-PROFESSION AVAILS NOTHING.

The persuasions of the false and the lusts of evil are inseparable; for he who is in evil as to life, is in the false as to doctrine. It may indeed seem otherwise to those who are in evil of life; for when they make a lip-

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