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man, therefore when this is opened man is in heaven; for heaven is not in place, but in the interiors of man.

That man is throughout such as he is as to good, and not as to truth without good, every one who reflects may know; for by his good and according to it he deals with another, is affected towards another, conjoins himself to another, suffers himself to be led by another; but not by truth and according to it, unless this be in accord with his good. When mention is made of good, its delight is meant, its pleasure or its love; for all things appertaining to these are to the man goods, and so far as he is left to himself so as to think from himself, truths are what favor those goods. Hence it may be manifest that man is conjoined to the Lord by good, and in nowise by truth without good. (A. C. 10,367.)


WHAT IT IS TO LOVE THE LOUD.

It may be here briefly told what love to the Lord is, or what it is to love the Lord. He who believes that he loves the Lord, and does not live according to his precepts, is very much deceived; for to live according to his precepts is to love Him. These precepts are the truths which are from Him, that is, truths in which the Lord is; therefore so far as they are loved, that is, so far as the life is formed according to them from love, the Lord is loved. The reason is, that the Lord loves man, and from love wills that he may be happy to eternity, and man cannot be made happy but by a life

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