The Gist of Swedenborg
The Gist of Swedenborg
Julian K. Smyth and William F. Wunsch, Editors.
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his neighbor or
against his neighbor. He can also will and do what he thinks; and when
he sees evil and fears punishment, by virtue of freedom he can refrain
from doing. By these two capacities man is man and is distinguished
from the beasts. Man has these twin powers from the Lord, and they are
from Him every moment; nor are they ever taken away, for if they were,
man's humanity would perish. The Lord is in these two powers with
every man, with the evil as well as the good. They are His
abiding-place in the race. Thence it is that every human being, evil
as well as good, lives to eternity.
--_Divine Love and Wisdom, n._ 240
THE DRAG OF HEREDITY
Man inclines to the nature he derives hereditarily, and lapses into it. Thus he strengthens any evil in it, and also adds others of himself. These evils are quite opposed to the spiritual life. They destroy it. Unless, therefore, a man receives new life from the Lord, which is spiritual life, he is condemned; for he wills nothing else and thinks nothing els
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