Divine Providence #113
Topics covered:
- A person is incapable of perceiving the lusts of his own evil
- If he did not know from some other source that they are evil, he would call them good
- To the extent he makes evils allowable, he enlarges the court of his reigning love
- Can the state of a person like this be changed in any other way than by putting away the evils in his external self?
- Otherwise the lusts have no exit open to them, for they are shut in, like a city besieged, or like an ulcer covered over
From Chapter 5: “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Put Away as If of Himself Evils as Sins in His External Self, and That the Lord Be Able Only Then to Put Away Evils in His Internal Self and at the Same Time in His External One”
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Angelic Wisdom regarding Divine Providence is a work of the Heavenly Doctrine penned by Emanuel Swedenborg. First published in the Latin language in 1764. Translated by N.B. Rogers for the General Church. Used with permission. Read by the Rev. Judah Synnestvedt.
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