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THE TRUE WORSHIP.
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it is done before men and not before the Lord. (A. C. 10,645.)

What the divine worship is which is signified by sacrifices and burnt-offerings, shall be briefly told. By sacrifices and burnt-offerings were specifically meant purification from evils and falsities, and then the implantation of good and truth, and the conjunction of these, that is, regeneration. The man who is in these is in genuine worship; for purification from evils and falsities consists in desisting from them, and in shunning and holding them in aversion; and the implantation of good and truth consists in thinking and willing what is good and true, and in speaking and doing them; and the conjunction of these consists in living from them; for when good and truth are conjoined in man, he has a new will and a new understanding, consequently new life.

When man is of such a character, in every work that he does there is divine worship; for he then has respect to the Divine in every thing, he venerates it, loves it, consequently worships it. That this is genuine divine worship, is unknown to those who place all worship in adoration and prayers, that is in such things as are of the mouth and thought, and not in such as are of the act from the good of love and faith. When yet the Lord regards nothing else in man who is in adoration and prayers, but his heart, that is, his interiors, such as they are in respect to love and the faith thence derived.

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