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several similar units, or of such as are exactly alike, but of various ones harmoniously conjoined; and these various ones harmoniously conjoined, constitute every one.

The case is similar with respect to goods and truths in the spiritual world, which, although various, so that no one is altogether like another, still they make one from the Divine by love and charity, for love and charity is spiritual conjunction; and their variety is heavenly harmony, which makes such concord that they are one in the Divine, that is, in the Lord.

Moreover, the good of love to God and charity toward one's neighbor, however various truths and the affections of truth may be, are still receptible of genuine truth and good; for they are not hard and resisting, if we may use the expression, but as it were soft and yielding, inasmuch as they suffer themselves to be led of the Lord, and thus to be bended to good, and by good to Him.

It is otherwise with those who are principled in self-love and the love of the world. Such do not suffer themselves to be led and bended by the Lord and to the Lord, but obstinately resist since they desire to lead themselves; and their resistance is still greater, when false principles are confirmed in them. So long as this is the case, they do not admit the Divine. (A. C. 3986.)

It has been a subject of controversy from the most ancient times, which principle is the first-born of the

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