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1 Ja Herra puhui Mosekselle, sanoen:

2 Käske Israelin lapset ajaa kaikki spitaliset leiristä ulos, ja kaikki, joiden siemen vuotaa, ja kaikki ne, jotka ovat johonkuhun kuolleesen itsensä saastuttaneet.

3 Sekä miehet että vaimot pitää teidän ajaman ulos: leiristä ne pitää teidän ajaman ulos, ettei he leiriänsä saastuttaisi, kussa minä heidän keskellänsä asun.

4 Ja Israelin lapset tekivät niin, ja ajoivat ne leiristä ulos: niinkuin Herra oli Mosekselle sanonut, niin he tekivät.

5 Ja Herra puhui Mosekselle, sanoen:

6 Puhu Israelin lapsille: jos joku mies eli vaimo tekee jotakin syntiä ihmistä vastaan, niin että hän raskaasti rikkoo Herraa vastaan, se sielu on vianalaiseksi itsensä saattanut.

7 Heidän pitää tunnustaman rikoksensa, jonka he tehneet ovat, ja pitää päänänsä sovittaman vikansa, ja vielä lisäämän viidennen osan, ja antaman sille, jota vastaan he rikkoneet ovat.

8 Jos ei sillä ihmisellä ole sitä, jolla omaisen oikeus on, jolle se rikos maksettaa taittaisiin, niin pitää se Herralle annettaman, ja oleman papin oman, paitsi sovinto-oinasta, jolla hän sovitetaan.

9 Niin pitää myös kaikki ylennys kaikista, minkä Israelin lapset pyhittävät ja uhraavat papille, oleman hänen omansa.

10 Jos joku jotain pyhittää, sen pitää oleman papin omana, ja mitä joku antaa papille, sen pitää oleman myös hänen omansa.

11 Ja Herra puhui Mosekselle, sanoen:

12 Puhu Israelin lapsille ja sano heille: jos jonkun miehen vaimo tulee ynsiäksi ja rikkoo kovasti häntä vastaan;

13 Ja jos joku makaa hänen, ja se on hänen miehensä silmäin edestä salattu ja peitetty, että hän on itsensä saastuttanut, ja ei ole todistusta häntä vastaan, eikä hän ole siinä löydetty,

14 Ja kiivaushenki kehoittaa hänen, että hän kiivoittelee vaimostansa, että hän on saastuttanut itsensä, eli epäluulon henki on tullut hänen päällensä, että hän on epäluulossa vaimostansa, vaikka ei hän ole saastuttanut itsiänsä,

15 Niin pitää miehen viemän vaimonsa papin eteen, ja viemän uhrin hänen edestänsä, kymmenennen osan ephaa ohraisia jauhoja, ja ei sen päälle öljyä vuodattaman, eikä myös pyhää savua sen päälle paneman; sillä se on kiivausuhri ja muistouhri, joka pahan teon muistuttaa.

16 Niin pitää papin tuoman hänen edes, ja asettaman Herran eteen.

17 Ja papin pitää ottaman pyhää vettä saviastiaan, ja tomua Tabernaklin permannosta pitää papin myös ottaman ja paneman veteen.

18 Ja papin pitää asettaman vaimon Herran eteen, ja paljastaman vaimon pään, ja paneman sen kätten päälle muistouhrin, joka on kiivausuhri, ja papin kädessä pitää oleman ne katkerat kirousvedet.

19 Ja papin pitää vannottaman vaimoa, ja sanoman hänelle: jos ei yksikään mies ole maannut sinun kanssas, ja jos et sinä ole poikennut sinun miehes tyköä, niin ettet sinä ole itsiäs saastuttanut, niin sinun pitää vapaa oleman tästä karvaasta vedestä.

20 Mutta jos sinä olet poikennut miehes tyköä, niin että sinä olet saastuttanut itses, ja joku on sinun maannut, paitsi sinun omaa miestäs,

21 Niin pitää papin vannottaman vaimoa kirouksen valalla, ja sanoman hänelle: Herra antakoon sinun kiroukseksi ja sadatukseksi kansas keskelle, niin että Herra sallii lakastua lantees ja vatsas ajettua.

22 Niin menkään nyt tämä kirousvesi sinun sisällyksiis, niin että sinun vatsas ajettuu, ja sinun lantees lakastuvat. Ja vaimon pitää sanoman: amen, amen!

23 Ja niin pitää papin kirjoittaman nämä kiroukset kirjaan, ja pitää taas pyyhkimän ne ulos siihen katkeraan veteen,

24 Ja pitää antaman vaimon juoda siitä katkerasta kirousvedestä, ja se kirousvesi pitää menemän hänen sisällensä katkeruudeksi.

25 Ja papin pitää ottaman kiivausuhrin vaimon kädestä, ja ylentämän sen Herran eteen ruokauhriksi, ja uhraaman sen alttarilla.

26 Ja papin pitää ottaman pivon täyden ruokauhrista hänen muistouhriksensa, ja polttaman sen alttarilla, ja sitte antaman sitä vettä vaimon juoda.

27 Ja koska hän on juottanut hänen sillä vedellä, niin tapahtuu, jos hän on itsensä saastuttanut ja kaiketikin rikkonut miestänsä vastaan, että kirousvesi tulee hänen sisällänsä katkeraksi, ja hänen vatsansa ajettuu ja hänen lanteensa lakastuvat: ja sen vaimon pitää oleman kirotun kansansa seassa.

28 Vaan jos se vaimo ei ole saastuttanut itsiänsä, vaan on puhdas, niin ei pidä sen mitään hänelle vahinkoa tekemän, vaan hänen pitää hedelmälliseksi tuleman.

29 Tämä on kiivauslaki: koska joku vaimo poikkee pois miehensä tyköä ja saastuttaa itsensä,

30 Eli koska epäluulon henki kehoittaa miehen kiivoittelemaan vaimostansa, että hän asettaa hänen Herran eteen, niin papin pitää tekemän hänelle kaiken tämän lain jälkeen.

31 Ja miehen pitää oleman viattoman siitä pahasta teosta, vaan vaimon pitää kantaman pahuutensa.

   


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True Christian Religion #507

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507. The fifth experience. 1

I was talking with angels and we came at last to the subject of the lust for evil which every person acquires by birth. 'In the world where I live,' said one of them, 'those who are possessed by lust appear to us angels as fools, but to themselves they seem extremely wise. On this account, in order to drag them out of their folly, they are by turns allowed to lapse into it and are then brought to a rational frame of mind, which in their case is confined to externals. When they are in this state they see, acknowledge and confess that they are crazy. But they still long to exchange their rational state for their crazed one, and they plunge into it as being freedom and pleasure in place of compulsion and unpleasantness. So it is lust that inwardly delights them, not intelligence.

[2] 'There are three universal loves of which every person is from creation compounded: the love of the neighbour, which is also the love of performing services, and this is a spiritual love; the love of the world, which is also the love of possessing wealth, and this is a material love; and self-love, which is also the love of dominating others, and this is a bodily love. A person is truly human when the love of the neighbour, or the love of performing services, makes up the head, and the love of the world, or of possessing wealth, makes up the chest and belly, and self-love, or the love of dominating, makes up the feet and the soles of the feet. But if the love of the world makes up the head, a person is only human in the way a hunchback is. And if self-love makes up the head, he is not like a person standing on his feet, but like one standing on the palms of his hands with his head down and his haunches in the air.

[3] 'When the love of performing services makes up the head, and the other two loves duly make up the trunk and feet, the person appears in heaven to have the face of an angel with a lovely rainbow around his head. But if the love of the world or wealth makes up the head, seen from heaven he seems to have a pale face like a corpse with a yellow ring around his head. And if self-love or the love of dominating others makes up the head, seen from heaven he seems to have a face dark with fiery gleams with a white ring around his head.'

This led me to ask: 'What do the rings around the head represent?' Intelligence;' they replied, 'the white ring around the head of a person with a dark face with fiery gleams represents his intelligence being limited to externals or around him, and his craziness being in his internals or inside him. Also a person of this sort is wise when engaged in the body, but crazy when in the spirit. No one is wise in spirit except by the Lord's doing; this happens when he is born again and created anew by the Lord.'

[4] After this the ground on the left opened and I saw rising through the opening a devil with a dark face with fiery gleams and a white ring around his head. 'Who are you?' I asked. 'I am Lucifer,' he said, 'the son of the dawn. I was cast down for making myself like the Most High, as described in Isaiah, chapter 14.' He was not actually Lucifer, but he thought he was. 'Since you have been cast down,' I said, 'how can you rise again from hell?' 'There,' he said, 'I am a devil, but here an angel of light; don't you see I have a white ring round my head? And you will see, if you wish, that among moral people I am moral, among rational people rational, among spiritual people even spiritual. I was even able to preach.'

'What did you preach about?' I asked. 'Against cheats,' he said, 'against adulterers and all the hellish loves. In fact it was then I called myself the devil Lucifer and invoked curses against myself as such, so that I was praised to the skies. That was how I got the name of the son of the dawn. To my own surprise, when I was in the pulpit I could think of nothing but speaking correctly and properly. But the reason was revealed to me, that I was in externals and these were then separated from my internals. Yet despite having this revealed to me, I was still unable to change, because I regarded myself as superior to the Most High, and was proud enough to oppose Him.'

[5] 'How,' I asked then, 'could you have spoken like that when you are yourself a cheat and an adulterer?' 'I am different,' he replied, 'when I am in externals or the body, from what I am when in internals or the spirit. In the body I am an angel, but in the spirit a devil. For while I am in the body I am in the power of the understanding, but in the spirit I am in the power of the will, and the understanding carries me upwards, while the will carries me down. When I am in the power of the understanding there is a white ring surrounding my head; but when the understanding becomes completely subservient to the will and is its creature, which is our ultimate fate, the ring turns black and fades away. When this happens I can no longer climb up into this light,,

Suddenly, however, catching sight of the angels with me, his face became inflamed and his voice became harsh, and he turned black, including the ring around his head. Then he fell back into hell through the opening by which he had risen. The by-standers drew the conclusion from what they had seen and heard that it is the will and not the understanding which determines a person's character, since the will has no difficulty in bringing the understanding over to its side and making it subservient.

[6] Then I asked the angels where the devils got their rationality from. 'It is,' they said, 'from the glory of self-love, for self-love is surrounded by glory, since this is the brilliance of its fire, and glory raises the understanding almost into the light of heaven. Everyone's understanding is capable of being raised in proportion to his knowledge; but the will can only be raised by living in accordance with the truths taught by the church and by reason. That is why even atheists, who out of self-love boast of their reputation, and so pride themselves on their intelligence, enjoy a higher degree of rationality than many others. But this happens when they are deep in intellectual thought, not when they are letting their wills express their love. It is love in the will which takes possession of the internal man, but thought in the understanding which takes possession of the external man.' The angel went on to tell us the reason why man is a compound of three loves, that of service, that of the world, and self-love. It is so that he may be guided in his thoughts by God, yet think entirely as if of himself. He told us that the highest levels of the human mind are turned upwards to God, the middle levels outwards to the world, the lowest downwards to the body. It is because these are turned downwards that a person thinks as if entirely of his own accord, when in fact his thoughts are controlled by God.

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1. This section is repeated with modifications from Conjugial Love 269.

  
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Leviticus 14:2

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2 "This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest,