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Charity #56

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56. The neighbour a man ought to love from charity is spiritual good. Apart from this good there is no charity; for the good of charity is spiritual good, since it is in accordance with that good that, in the case of each one in the heavens, conjunction is effected.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Charity #56

Study this Passage

  
/ 215  
  

56. The neighbour a man ought to love from charity is spiritual good. Apart from this good there is no charity; for the good of charity is spiritual good, since it is in accordance with that good that, in the case of each one in the heavens, conjunction is effected.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.