35. Man has two inherent powers of will and understanding. When the understanding is governed by the will they then constitute one mind and so one life; for what a person in that case wills and does he also thinks and intends. But when the understanding is at variance with the will, as it is with people who claim to have faith and yet live otherwise, then a mind previously one is split in two. One half seeks to transport itself into heaven, while the other inclines towards hell. And because the will is what accomplishes everything, the whole man would rush straight into hell unless the Lord took pity on him.
True Christian Religion #712
712. It is also well known that the church has three essentials: God, charity and faith; and that all things in the church have reference to these three, as it were to their universals. These are the same as those mentioned above, for God in the Holy Supper is the Lord, charity is the Divine good and faith is the Divine truth. What is charity but the good a person does under the Lord's guidance? And what is faith but the truth a person believes under the Lord's guidance? It is because of this that there are three things in man as regards his internal: the soul or mind, the will and the understanding. These three are designed to receive the three universals. The actual soul or mind is to receive the Lord, for this is the source of its life; the will is to receive love or good; and the understanding is to receive wisdom or truth. Every detail therefore in the soul or mind not only refers to those three universals of heaven and the church, but it also proceeds from them. Name anything that proceeds from man in which there is not mind, will and understanding; if one of these were taken away, would we still be talking of a man rather than something inanimate?
[2] Likewise there are three things in man as regards his external, to which every single detail refers and on which they are dependent: namely, the body, the heart and the lungs. These three bodily items correspond to the three mental items, [the body to the soul or mind,] the heart to the will, the lungs or breathing to the understanding. The existence of such a correspondence has already been fully demonstrated in this book. Every single detail now in man is so formed both at the universal and at the particular level as to be capable of receiving those three universals of heaven and the church. The reason is that man was created an image and likeness of God, in order therefore that he might be in the Lord, and the Lord might be in him.
Genesis 1
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
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Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
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God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
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God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
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God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.
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God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
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God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
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God called the expanse "sky." There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
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God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.
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God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.
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God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.
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The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
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There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
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God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
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and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so.
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God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
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God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,
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and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
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There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
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God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."
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God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
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God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
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There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
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God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.
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God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
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God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
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God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.
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God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
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God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
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To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.
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God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
