Heaven and its Wonders and Hell eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 590 pages of information about Heaven and its Wonders and Hell.

Heaven and its Wonders and Hell eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 590 pages of information about Heaven and its Wonders and Hell.

     What is implanted in freedom endures, but not what is
     implanted under compulsion (n. 9588).

     For this reason no one is ever deprived of his freedom (n.
     2876, 2881).  The Lord compels no one (n. 1937, 1947).

     Compelling one’s self is from freedom, but not being
     compelled (n. 1937, 1947).

     A man ought to compel himself to resist evil (n. 1937,
     1947, 7914).

     Also to do good as if from himself, and yet to acknowledge
     that it is from the Lord (n. 2883, 2891, 2892, 7914).

Man has a stronger freedom in the temptation combats in which he conquers, since he then compels himself more interiorly to resist, although it appears otherwise (n. 1937, 1947, 2881).

     [4] Infernal freedom consists in being led by the loves of
     self and of the world and their lusts (n. 2870, 2873).

     Those who are in hell know no other freedom (n. 2871).

     Heavenly freedom is as far removed from infernal freedom
     as heaven is from hell (n. 2873, 2874).

     Infernal freedom, which consists in being led by the loves
     of self and of the world, is not freedom but servitude (n.
     2884, 2890).

     For servitude is in being led by hell (n. 9586,
     9589-9591).

Influx.

[5] All things that man thinks and wills flow into him from experience (n. 904, 2886-2888, 4151, 4319, 4320, 5846, 5848, 6189, 6191, 6194, 6197-6199, 6213, 7147, 10219).

     Man’s capacity to give attention to subjects, to think,
     and to draw conclusions analytically, is from influx (n.
     4319, 4320, 5288).

     Man could not live a single moment if influx from the
     spiritual world were taken away from him; from experience
     (n. 2887, 5849, 5854, 6321).

     The life that flows in from the Lord varies in accordance
     with the state of man and in accordance with reception (n.
     2069, 5986, 6472, 7343).

     With those who are evil the good that flows in from the
     Lord is changed into evil, and the truth into falsity;
     from experience (n. 3642, 4632).

     The good and truth that continually flow in from the Lord
     are received just to the extent that they are not hindered
     by evil and falsity (n. 2411, 3142, 3147, 5828).

     [6] All good flows in from the Lord, and all evil from
     hell (n. 904, 4151).

At the present day man believes that all things are in himself and are from himself, when in fact they flow in; and this he might know from the doctrine of the church, which teaches that all good is from God, and all evil from the devil (n. 4249, 6193, 6206).

     But if man’s belief were in accord with this doctrine he
     would not appropriate evil to himself nor would he make
     good to be his own (n. 6206, 6324, 6325).

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