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Doc.302.] ADDITIONS TO UNIVERSAL THEOLOGY. 763
D.
THE ORDER OF INFLUX.»
1. As man instructs his understanding, he prepares it for
the reception of light, and hence of wisdom from heaven.
2. As man does the goods of charity, he prepares the will
for the reception of the heat of heaven, or of love.
3. Like one who cuts a diamond, he makes preparation for
the splendour of light to be diffused from himself.
4. As man makes himself an organ of influx, heaven flows
into him, and thus that which is from the Lord out of heaven.
5. As man makes himself spiritual from the Lord, so the
Lord made Himself Divine from the Father.
6. The order of influx is this, that man should live accord
ing to the laws of order, and in proportion as he does so, he
becomes a recipient: wherefore the Lord says, "If any one
hears and keeps my commandments, he loves me, and I will
love him and make my abode with him."
Each love knows its own love, and they unite reciprocally,
or mutually and alternately.
7. The Lord conjoins Himself to man, as man conjoins
himself to the Lord ; not otherwise. And man conjoins him
self to the Lord, as the Lord conjoins himself to man. The
Lord perpetually conjoins Himself.
E.
RECIPROCAL CONJUNCTION.†
Every active principle, for the sake of conjunction, im
parts from its own activity to a passive receiver, whence there
results a re-active principle, and thereby conjunction.
1. The Lord alone is the active principle, man being
passive ; and in proportion as man receives of the active prin
ciple from the Lord, he re-acts, and conjunction results thence.
* See original MS., p. 2. See original MS ., p. 1.
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