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altogether untrue, yea false, may appear almost from all those things which in themselves are true, inasmuch as they are with every man according to his affections. As for example: the expediency of doing good works or the good of charity, is itself a truth; yet this truth with one person is the good of charity, because it proceeds from charity; with another it is a work of obedience, because it proceeds from obedience; with some it is meritorious, because they are willing to merit and be saved thereby; but with some it is hypocritical, because they do good in order to appear good before men; and so in other cases. And this may be applied to all other truths which are called truths of faith.

Hence also it may be seen that there is much of truth with those who are in the affection of good, and less of truth with those who are in the affection of truth; for the latter regard good as more remote from them, whereas the former regard good as present in them. (A. C. 2439.)


EVERY MAN SUCH AS HIS GOOD IS.

That man enters heaven and becomes a church when he is in good, is from this: that the Lord flows-in into the good with him, and by good into its truth. The influx is into the internal man where his heaven is, and through the internal into the external where his world is. Therefore, unless man be in good, his internal man is not opened but remains shut, however he be in truths as to doctrine. And since heaven is in the internal

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