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edgment of Him when they are in good; for in all good the Lord is present. Therefore these in another life also easily acknowledge Him [openly], more easily, indeed, than such Christians as are not so principled in good, and yet receive the truth of faith respecting the Lord. (A. C. 3263.)

None can in heart acknowledge God except those who have lived well. This is because they alone love Him; for they love the Divine things that are from Him, observing them in their conduct. The Divine things that are from God, are the precepts of his law: these are God, because He is his own proceeding Divine. And this [the keeping of these precepts] is to love God. Therefore the Lord says: "He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me." (D. P. 326.)

They who are in the life of evil, cannot acknowledge the Lord [in his Divine Humanity], but form to themselves innumerable contradictions against Him, because they are receptive of an influx of fantasies from hell; whereas they who are in the life of good, acknowledge the Lord, inasmuch as they are under the influx of heaven, the principle whereof is love or charity. (A. C. 2354.)


THE GREAT AND PRIMARY DOCTRINE.

All the particulars of the doctrine of the New Jerusalem relate to love to the Lord and love toward

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