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    Divine Love
    Divine Love
    Divine Love
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    Divine Love

    By Emanuel Swedenborg

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    That this is little comprehended is evident from the common saying “What is love?” What it is, is not known for the reason that love is not manifest to the understanding, and the understanding is the receptacle of the light of heaven. What comes into that light is interiorly seen, for what a man thinks, that he has knowledge of? For this reason, a man says that this or that is in the light of his understanding, also that he sees this to be so; likewise, he prays that he may be enlightened and illumined by God. Moreover, there is spiritual light to which natural light corresponds, and it is from this that one says, with reference to his understanding, that he sees. and a wise man prays to be enlightened and to be illumined by God, that is, that he may understand. Man, therefore, can form no idea concerning love, for this reason, that although the understanding, by means of the thought, presents itself to be seen, love does not. And yet love is the very soul or life of thought, and if love be taken away thought grows cold and dies, like a flower deprived of heat; for love enkindles, vivifies, and animates thought. Set your mind at work and consider whether you can think apart from some affection that is of love; and you will find in your own case that it is impossible. From this it is plain that love is the life of the understanding and of thought therefrom; and what is the life of the understanding and of thought therefrom is also the life of the whole man; for it is the life of all the senses and of all motions, thus the life of the organs by means of which senses and motions exist. That it is also the life of the rest of the viscera, will be seen in what follows.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMaria
    Release dateFeb 3, 2017
    ISBN9788826015439
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      Divine Love - Emanuel Swedenborg

      Table of Contents

      - 1. In The World It Is Little Comprehended What Love Is; And Yet It Is Man’s Very Life.

      - 2. The Lord Alone Is Love Itself, Because Life Itself; While Men And Angels Are Only Recipients.

      - 3. Life, Which Is The Divine Love, Is In A Form.

      - 4. That Form Is A Form Of Use In Its Whole Complex.

      - 5. In Such A Form Is Man Individually.

      - 6. In Such A Form Is Man In General.

      - 7. In Such A Form Is Heaven.

      - 8. All Things Of The World Also Tend To Such A Form.

      - 9. There Are As Many Affections As There Are Uses.

      - 10. There Are Genera And Species Of Affections, And Varieties Of Species To Infinity; SO, Of Uses.

      - 11. There Are Degrees Of Affections And Of Uses.

      - 12. Each Use Draws Its Life From The General Use And From That The Necessary, Useful And Enjoyable Things Of Life Flow In According To The Quality Of The Use And The Quality Of Its Affection.

      - 13. So Far As Man Is In The Love Of Use, So Far Is He In The Lord, So FAR, He Loves The Lord And Loves The Neighbor, And So FAR, He Is A Man.

      - 14. Those Who Love Themselves Above All Things, And The World As Themselves, Are Not Men, Nor Are They In The Lord.

      - 15. Unless Use Be The Affection Or Occupation Of Man, He Is Not Of Sound Mind.

      - 16. Every Man Is An Affection; And There Are As Many Various Affections As There Are Men That Have Been Born, And Will Be Born To Eternity.

      - 17. Man Has Eternal Life According To His Affection Of Use.

      - 18. The Will Of Man Is His Affection.

      - 19. In The Word To Love Means To Perform Uses.

      - 20. Love Produces Heat.

      - 21. The Divine Love, Which Is Life Itself, By Means Of Heat Produces Spiritual Animal Forms, With Each And Everything In Them.

      DIVINE LOVE

      BY

      EMANUEL SWEDENBORG

      First digital edition 2018 by Ruggieri Maria

      - 1. In The World It Is Little Comprehended What Love Is; And Yet It Is Man’s Very Life.

      That this is little comprehended is evident from the common saying What is love? What it is, is not known for the reason that love is not manifest to the understanding, and the understanding is the receptacle of the light of heaven. What comes into that light is interiorly seen, for what a man thinks, that he has knowledge of? For this reason, a man says that this or that is in the light of his understanding, also that he sees this to be so; likewise, he prays that he may be enlightened and illumined by God. Moreover, there is spiritual light to which natural light corresponds, and it is from this that one says, with reference to his understanding, that he sees. and a wise man prays to be enlightened and to be illumined by God, that is, that he may understand. Man, therefore, can form no idea concerning love, for this reason, that although the understanding, by means of the thought, presents itself to be seen, love does not. And yet love is the very soul or life of thought, and if love be taken away thought grows cold and dies, like a flower deprived of heat; for love enkindles, vivifies, and animates thought. Set your mind at work and consider whether you can think apart from some affection that is of love; and you will find in your own case that it is impossible. From this it is plain that love is the life of the understanding and of thought therefrom; and what is the life of the understanding and of thought therefrom is also the life of the whole man; for it is the life of all the senses and of all motions, thus the life of the organs by means of which senses and motions exist. That it is also the life of the rest of the viscera, will be seen in what follows. It is not known what love is, for the further reason that

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