第1-3节。在选择正确的道路和拒绝邪恶的道路时要严格遵循正确的认识，灵魂中错误的能力将被降低，但不会超过修正所需的程度。

第4节。外在的物品通过服侍其他更内在的物品，本身就会被招致。

第5-10节。以前从外部动机所做的善事要被精神动机所采纳和完善，而那些只存在于思想中，却始终拒绝流于行动的善事，要被拒绝，因为它是无用的。

第11-12节。不允许本体的倾向妨碍灵性思维在善与恶、真与假之间作出决定。

第13-16节，对与错的原则和规则不能因世俗的目的而改变，但必须遵循被认为是正确的东西，否则天堂的生活将被拒绝。

第17-19节。那些与邪恶妥协的原则给灵魂带来的邪恶必须永远铭记在心，当灵魂从敌人那里获得安息时，这种原则必须被彻底摧毁。

141. THE FOUR QUARTERS IN HEAVEN.

Both in heaven and in the world there are four quarters, east, south, west, and north, determined in each world by its own sun; in heaven by the sun of heaven, which is the Lord, in the world by the sun of the world. And yet there are great differences between them. In the first place, in the world that is called the south where the sun is in its greatest altitude above the earth, north where it is in its opposite position beneath the earth, east where it rises at an equinox, and west where it then sets. Thus in the world it is from the south that all the quarters are determined. But in heaven that is called the east where the Lord is seen as a sun, opposite to this is the west, at the right is the south in heaven, and at the left the north; and this in whatever direction the face and the body are turned. Thus in heaven it is from the east that all the quarters are determined. That is called the east [oriens] where the Lord is seen as a sun, because all origin [origo] of life is from Him as a sun; moreover, so far as angels receive heat and light or love and intelligence from the Lord He is said to arise [exoriri] upon them. For the same reason the Lord is called the East [Oriens] in the Word. ¹

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