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Sacred Scripture #7

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7. Then too, we cannot know what the difference between these qualities is unless we know about correspondence, since these three qualities are absolutely distinguishable from each other, like a goal, the means to it, and its result; or like the first, the intermediate, and the last. However, they coalesce by means of their correspondence, since what is earthly corresponds to what is spiritual and also to what is heavenly. Arcana Coelestia 1884, [1885,] , 1 Kings 14:23, [24,] 25-26;

You may see what correspondence is, though, in Heaven and Hell, under the headings “The Correspondence of Everything in Heaven with Everything in the Human Being” (§§Heaven and Hell 87-102) and “The Correspondence of Heaven with Everything Earthly” (§§103-115). There will be more to see in the examples from the Word cited below [§§9-17, 29, 35, 40[2]-49,79].

  
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Arcana Coelestia #1885

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1885. These two kinds of visions, however, are extraordinary, and were shown me merely to the end that I might know their nature. But the things I have habitually “seen” [as mentioned in the title to this work] are all those which of the Lord’s Divine mercy you may see related in this First Part, and which are placed at the beginning and end of the several chapters. These are not visions, but things seen in the highest wakefulness of the body, and this for several years. 1

Footnotes:

1. The first “Part” or volume of the original Latin work, in quarto, published in London in 1749, ends here, and the second “Part” follows.

  
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Doctrine of Life #87

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87. Insofar as Someone Refrains from Every Form of False Witness as Being a Sin, So Far He Loves Truth

In the natural sense to bear false witness means not only to perjure oneself in court, but also to lie and slander. In the spiritual sense to bear false witness means to say and persuade that falsity is true, and evil good, and the converse. And in the highest sense to bear false witness means to blaspheme the Lord and the Word.

These are what it is to bear false witness in its three levels of meaning.

That they go together in a person swearing falsely, lying and slandering can be seen from what we demonstrated in The Doctrine Regarding the Sacred Scripture 5-7ff., and no. 57, 58, regarding the three levels of meaning of everything in the Word.

  
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