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Doc. 302. ] ADDITIONS TO UNIVERSAL THEOLOGY. 767
Those on the left had said that there was nothing spiritual
in our theology, only in faith, in which nothing is seen; not
in charity, not in the remission of sins, not in regeneration,
nor in the use of the sacrament, as soon as thought enters
into them. But again they said that all things of the church
are spiritual, as soon as nothing is seen in them.
[They said further] that when attempting to reflect on the
things of the church, we are like an eagle in the ether, and
like a bird under an air-pump.
What, they said, can you see in abstract things, and in
such as are above the understanding?
Sometimes I was almost persuaded that they were angels ;
when yet they were like putrid wood that shines on the outside.
In the world man is two-fold ; after death all become
single. In the world man has a sensation of both [his in
ternal and external]. This is changed after death.
What pious and wise man would not like to know the fate
of his life after death? wherefore the general principles have
been revealed, from which he may know it, if he choose.
The delight of all in hell is to injure the neighbour, and
to blaspheme God ; and this delight springs from their heart
or their will. They are, however, restrained by punishments
from acting according to their delights.
The delight of all in heaven consists in doing good to the
neighbour, and in blessing God, and indeed from the heart
or will, and at the same time by deed.
Man’s interior is his spirit, the interior of that his will ;
the interior of the will is his love, and the interior of that
his delight. The consociation of all is according to delights.
(
N.B. That consociations are according to odours, will be
shown in a special memorable relation.)
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