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986 [Doc. 313 .
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
no. 831 ; How love becomes spiritual, no. 832 ; Nature of spiritual
natural love in the first heaven, no. 834. At the close of the chapter
the doctrines of "Faith and Love" are treated conjointly in this wise :
An abstract of what has been stated above, no. 837 ; Man’s faith
accordingto his love or life, no. 839 ; Love, life, and works are one, no. 842.
These interesting doctrinal subjects are not treated of separately
in the paragraphs which have just been referred to, but they seem
to grow out of the spiritual explanation of chapter xiii. The Author
does not yet seem fully conscious of the fact that the plan which he
had hitherto followed in his explanation of the Apocalypse is about
to undergo a change. For throughout the whole of the following
chapter [xiv], he pursues his former plan; i. e. he devotes himself
again chiefly to the spiritual explanation of the chapter, and of many
collateral passages from other parts of Scripture ; and as heretofore
he makes again many references to the Arcana Cœlestia, "Heaven
and Hell," &c. In chapter xv, however, Swedenborg departs from
his former plan, and employs himself chiefly in expanding the
general doctrines of the New Church, by instilling into them the
particulars of doctrine. Henceforth the particular references to the
Arcana Coelestia and "Heaven and Hell" cease almost entirely, or
are at least reduced to much smaller dimensions. Henceforth also
he separates distinctly in each paragraph the explanation of doctrine
from the explanation of the spiritual sense, so that the reader is
at once able to see that two distinct subjects are treated of in almost
every numbered paragraph.
The first doctrinal subject which is thus treated of in chapter xv
is "The Goods of Charity or Good Works." It is discussed in the
following order: Introduction, no. 932 ; Difference between works from
God and works from man, no. 933 ; How man must act so that his
works may be done from the Lord, and not from himself, no. 934;
A Life according to the Decalogue, no. 935 ; Man’s freedom, no. 936 ;
Man cannot desist from evils of himself, no. 938; The interior
must first be purified, no. 939 ; When the interior is purified, man’s
internal is opened, no. 940 ; When the internal is opened, man comes
into a state of illustration, and is admitted into heaven, no. 941 ;
Nature ofthe affections which are then communicated to him, no. 942 ;
The affections of truth, of good, and of bearing fruit, no. 943 ; This
is the state into which man comes by shunning evils, no. 944; He
is then raised out of his proprium, no. 945 ; He is then in the Lord,
and does good works from the Lord, no. 946.
The next subject treated of in chapters xv and xvi is "Religion,
or a Life according to the Commandments." This doctrine is treated
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