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GOODS ARE VARIOUS.
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The goods appertaining to men, as well within as without the Church, are altogether various; and so various, that the good of one man is never in all respects like the good of another. The varieties derive their existence from the truths with which the goods are conjoined; for every good takes its quality from truths, and truths take their essential principle from goods. Varieties also derive their existence from the affections which are of every one's love, which are rooted in and appropriated to man by his life.

Few genuine truths appertain to men, even within the Church, and still fewer to men without the Church; and hence affections of genuine truth are rarely found. Nevertheless, they who are principled in the good of life, or who live in love to God and charity toward their neighbor, are saved. Their capacity to be saved is grounded in this circumstance, that the Lord's Divine is in the good of love to God and in charity toward one's neighbor; and where the Divine is within, there all things are disposed into such an order as to be capable of being conjoined with the genuine goods and truths which are in the heavens.

That this is the case, may appear from the societies which constitute heaven, and which are innumerable; all and singular whereof are various as to good and truth, yet taken together they form one heaven. They are in this respect like the members and organs of the human body, which, although various throughout, still constitute one man; for a unit is never constituted of

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