Arcana Coelestia #1002
1002. 'Not eating' means not mixing together. This follows from what has been said above. Regarded in itself eating animal flesh is something profane, for in most ancient times people never ate the flesh of any beast or bird, but only different kinds of grain, especially wheaten bread, also the fruit of trees, vegetables, milk, and milk products such as butter. Slaughtering living creatures and eating their flesh was to them abominable, akin to the behaviour of wild animals. Service and use alone was demanded of those creatures, as is clear from Genesis 1:29-30. But in the process of time when mankind began to be as savage as wild animals, indeed more savage, they first began to slaughter living creatures and eat their flesh. And because man had become such, he was permitted to do so and is still permitted today. And insofar as he does so from conscience, it is quite legitimate, for his conscience is given form from all those things he presumes to be true and so legitimate. Consequently nobody nowadays stands in any sense condemned because he eats meat.
James 4:1-10
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Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
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You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.
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You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
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You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
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But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
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Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
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Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
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Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
