Divine Love and Wisdom (Rogers) n. 429

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429. On the other hand, people who are motivated by a natural spiritual love have engraved on their life neither wisdom nor intelligence, but instead some element of faith from the Word to the extent that this has been conjoined with charity. Because people of this character do not know what charity is, or whether their faith is the truth, they cannot dwell among those in the heavens who possess wisdom and intelligence, but dwell among those who possess only knowledge. Still, those who have refrained from evils as sins are in the lowest heaven, and dwell there in a light like the light of the moon at night. [2] Those, however, who have not confirmed themselves in a faith in the unknown, and at the same time have had some affection for truth, on being instructed by angels are, in accordance with their reception of truths and life according to them, elevated into the societies of people who possess a spiritual love and so intelligence. They become spiritual, while the rest remain naturally spiritual. Conversely, those who have lived in a state of faith separated from charity are removed and sent off into deserts, because they are not impelled by any goodness, thus not by any marriage of goodness and truth, as are all those who are in the heavens.


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