Spiritual Experiences (Interim Diary) #4711

By Emanuel Swedenborg

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4711. About the grand human being, in regard to the faculty of the will

I was shown how the matter stands in general with regard to the faculties of the will and of the understanding. The heavenly angels, or the heavenly heaven, in which were the people of the most ancient Church, had a voluntary faculty in which there was something of good, on which account they were also able to be regenerated even as to the will. But the spiritual angels, or the spiritual heaven, in which were the people of the ancient Church and are those of the Church at this day, have a voluntary faculty entirely corrupted, and cannot be regenerated except only as to the faculty of understanding, in which a new will is formed by the Lord, from which their own will is entirely separated.

  
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