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762 [Doc. 302.
ANECDOTES AND MISCELLANIES.
C.
CONCERNING ORDER.*
1. Love introduces order immediately into the understand
ing, and by mediate things into the whole of the mind.
2. Man from his heaven rules his world, but under the
Lord’s auspices.
3. Man successively introduces himself into order from his
infancy, by means of his parents, companions, masters ; he
re-acts and acts from himself, and thus imbues himself with
order, and finally becomes order in the same proportion as
he receives it and imbues himself with it.
4. Order is thus induced upon his state and the form of
his life; and the laws of order are truths and statutes.
5. In proportion as man receives love, in the same pro
portion he makes for himself order, according to which, as said
above, love introduces and forms order in him.
6. Man can get himself into a state of order in proportion
as he gets himself into a state of love ; thus he has the cap
ability of becoming a genuine man ; yet he has also the cap
ability of becoming like the beasts of every kind.
7. True order is connected with decorum, beauty, elegance,
perfection.
8. Man cannot become order from himself, except first
mediately through other men, and afterwards immediately from
the Lord; nor is it possible for man to introduce himself into
order, and to form order in himself from himself; nor, finally,
is it possible for the Lord to do so, unless man acts at the
same time from himself.
9. Man cannot become a beast, but he can become as a
beast.
* See original MS., p. 6.
10. The productions of love are called affections, and these
constitute man’s state ; and its determinations through the
understanding are called truths. These form man ; and in pro
portion as the latter are produced from the former, man
becomes order.
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