Divine Love and Wisdom (Rogers) n. 428

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428. In contrast, people who are motivated by spiritual love, which is love for the neighbor, do not have wisdom engraved on their life, but intelligence, for it is the mark of wisdom to do good from an affection for good, but the mark of intelligence to do good from an affection for truth, as we said above. People of this character do not know what faith is, either. If faith is mentioned, they understand it to mean truth, and when charity is mentioned, they understand it to mean practicing the truth. Moreover, when they are told that truth must be believed, they call it an empty expression and say, "Who does not believe the truth?" They say this because they see truth in the light of their heaven. Consequently to believe what they do not see they call either simpleminded or foolish. People of this character are those who constitute heaven's kingdom of the lungs, which we also discussed above.


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