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Ezekiel 34

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1 και-C γιγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S λογος-N2--NSM κυριος-N2--GSM προς-P εγω- P--AS λεγω-V1--PAPNSM

2 υιος-N2--VSM ανθρωπος-N2--GSM προφητευω-VA--AAD2S επι-P ο- A--APM ποιμην-N3--APM ο- A--GSM *ισραηλ-N---GSM προφητευω-VA--AAD2S και-C ειπον-VB--AAD2S ο- A--DPM ποιμην-N3--DPM οδε- D--APN λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM κυριος-N2--NSM ω-I ποιμην-N3--NPM *ισραηλ-N---GSM μη-D βοσκω-V1--PAI3P ποιμην-N3--NPM εαυτου- D--APM ου-D ο- A--APN προβατον-N2N-APN βοσκω-V1--PAI3P ο- A--NPM ποιμην-N3--NPM

3 ιδου-I ο- A--ASN γαλα-N3--ASN καταεσθιω-V1--PAI2P και-C ο- A--APN εριον-N2N-APN περιβαλλω-V1--PMI2P και-C ο- A--ASN παχυς-A3U-ASN σφαζω-V1--PAI2P και-C ο- A--APN προβατον-N2N-APN εγω- P--GS ου-D βοσκω-V1--PAI2P

4 ο- A--ASN ασθενεω-VX--XAPASN ου-D ενισχυω-VA--AAI2P και-C ο- A--ASN κακως-D εχω-V1--PAPASN ου-D σωματοποιεω-VAI-AAI2P και-C ο- A--ASN συντριβω-VP--XPPASN ου-D καταδεω-VAI-AAI2P και-C ο- A--ASN πλαναω-V3--PMPASN ου-D επιστρεφω-VAI-AAI2P και-C ο- A--ASN αποολλυω-VX--XAPASN ου-D ζητεω-VAI-AAI2P και-C ο- A--ASN ισχυρος-A1A-ASN καταεργαζομαι-VAI-AMI2P μοχθος-N2--DSM

5 και-C διασπειρω-VDI-API3S ο- A--APN προβατον-N2N-APN εγω- P--GS δια-P ο- A--ASN μη-D ειμι-V9--PAN ποιμην-N3--APM και-C γιγνομαι-VCI-API3S εις-P καταβρωμα-N3M-ASN πας-A3--DPN ο- A--DPN θηριον-N2N-DPN ο- A--GSM αγρος-N2--GSM

6 και-C διασπειρω-VDI-API3S εγω- P--GS ο- A--NPN προβατον-N2N-NPN εν-P πας-A3--DSN ορος-N3E-DSN και-C επι-P πας-A3--ASN βουνος-N2--ASM υψηλος-A1--ASM και-C επι-P προσωπον-N2N-GSN πας-A1S-GSF ο- A--GSF γη-N1--GSF διασπειρω-VDI-API3S και-C ου-D ειμι-V9--IAI3S ο- A--NSM εκζητεω-V2--PAPNSM ουδε-C ο- A--NSM αποστρεφω-V1--PAPNSM

7 δια-P ουτος- D--ASN ποιμην-N3--NPM ακουω-VA--AAD2P λογος-N2--ASM κυριος-N2--GSM

8 ζαω-V3--PAI1S εγω- P--NS λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM κυριος-N2--NSM ει-C μην-X αντι-P ο- A--GSN γιγνομαι-VB--AMN ο- A--NPN προβατον-N2N-NPN εγω- P--GS εις-P προνομη-N1--ASF και-C γιγνομαι-VB--AMN ο- A--NPN προβατον-N2N-NPN εγω- P--GS εις-P καταβρωμα-N3M-ASN πας-A3--DPN ο- A--DPN θηριον-N2N-DPN ο- A--GSN πεδιον-N2N-GSN παρα-P ο- A--ASN μη-D ειμι-V9--PAN ποιμην-N3--APM και-C ου-D εκζητεω-VAI-AAI3P ο- A--NPM ποιμην-N3--NPM ο- A--APN προβατον-N2N-APN εγω- P--GS και-C βοσκω-VAI-AAI3P ο- A--NPM ποιμην-N3--NPM εαυτου- D--APM ο- A--APN δε-X προβατον-N2N-APN εγω- P--GS ου-D βοσκω-VAI-AAI3P

9 αντι-P ουτος- D--GSM ποιμην-N3--NPM

10 οδε- D--APN λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM κυριος-N2--NSM ιδου-I εγω- P--NS επι-P ο- A--APM ποιμην-N3--APM και-C εκζητεω-VF--FAI1S ο- A--APN προβατον-N2N-APN εγω- P--GS εκ-P ο- A--GPF χειρ-N3--GPF αυτος- D--GPM και-C αποστρεφω-VF--FAI1S αυτος- D--APM ο- A--GSN μη-D ποιμαινω-V1--PAN ο- A--APN προβατον-N2N-APN εγω- P--GS και-C ου-D βοσκω-VF--FAI3P ετι-D ο- A--NPM ποιμην-N3--NPM αυτος- D--APN και-C εκαιρεω-VF2-FMI1S ο- A--APN προβατον-N2N-APN εγω- P--GS εκ-P ο- A--GSN στομα-N3M-GSN αυτος- D--GPM και-C ου-D ειμι-VF--FMI3P αυτος- D--DPM ετι-D εις-P καταβρωμα-N3M-ASN

11 διοτι-C οδε- D--APN λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM ιδου-I εγω- P--NS εκζητεω-VF--FAI1S ο- A--APN προβατον-N2N-APN εγω- P--GS και-C επισκεπτομαι-VF--FMI1S αυτος- D--APN

12 ωσπερ-D ζητεω-V2--PAI3S ο- A--NSM ποιμην-N3--NSM ο- A--ASN ποιμνιον-N2N-ASN αυτος- D--GSM εν-P ημερα-N1A-DSF οταν-D ειμι-V9--PAS3S γνοφος-N2--NSM και-C νεφελη-N1--NSF εν-P μεσος-A1--DSM προβατον-N2N-GPN διαχωριζω-VT--XPPGPM ουτως-D εκζητεω-VF--FAI1S ο- A--APN προβατον-N2N-APN εγω- P--GS και-C αποελαυνω-VF3-FAI1S αυτος- D--APN απο-P πας-A3--GSM τοπος-N2--GSM ος- --GSM διασπειρω-VDI-API3P εκει-D εν-P ημερα-N1A-DSF νεφελη-N1--GSF και-C γνοφος-N2--GSM

13 και-C εκαγω-VF--FAI1S αυτος- D--APM εκ-P ο- A--GPN εθνος-N3E-GPN και-C συναγω-VF--FAI1S αυτος- D--APM απο-P ο- A--GPF χωρα-N1A-GPF και-C ειςαγω-VF--FAI1S αυτος- D--APM εις-P ο- A--ASF γη-N1--ASF αυτος- D--GPM και-C βοσκω-VF--FAI1S αυτος- D--APM επι-P ο- A--APN ορος-N3E-APN *ισραηλ-N---GSM και-C εν-P ο- A--DPF φαραγξ-N3G-DPF και-C εν-P πας-A1S-DSF κατοικια-N1A-DSF ο- A--GSF γη-N1--GSF

14 εν-P νομη-N1--DSF αγαθος-A1--DSF βοσκω-VF--FAI1S αυτος- D--APM και-C εν-P ο- A--DSN ορος-N3E-DSN ο- A--DSN υψηλος-A1--DSN *ισραηλ-N---GSM ειμι-VF--FMI3P ο- A--NPF μανδρα-N1A-NPF αυτος- D--GPM εκει-D κοιμαω-VC--FPI3P και-C εκει-D αναπαυω-VF--FMI3P εν-P τρυφη-N1--DSF αγαθος-A1--DSF και-C εν-P νομη-N1--DSF πιων-A3N-DSF βοσκω-VC--FPI3P επι-P ο- A--GPN ορος-N3E-GPN *ισραηλ-N---GSM

15 εγω- P--NS βοσκω-VF--FAI1S ο- A--APN προβατον-N2N-APN εγω- P--GS και-C εγω- P--NS αναπαυω-VF--FAI1S αυτος- D--APN και-C γιγνωσκω-VF--FMI3P οτι-C εγω- P--NS ειμι-V9--PAI1S κυριος-N2--NSM οδε- D--APN λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM κυριος-N2--NSM

16 ο- A--ASN αποολλυω-VX--XAPASN ζητεω-VF--FAI1S και-C ο- A--ASN πλαναω-V3--PMPASN επιστρεφω-VF--FAI1S και-C ο- A--ASN συντριβω-VP--XPPASN καταδεω-VF--FAI1S και-C ο- A--ASN εκλειπω-V1--PAPASN ενισχυω-VF--FAI1S και-C ο- A--ASN ισχυρος-A1A-ASN φυλασσω-VF--FAI1S και-C βοσκω-VF--FAI1S αυτος- D--APN μετα-P κριμα-N3M-GSN

17 και-C συ- P--NP προβατον-N2N-NPN οδε- D--APN λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM κυριος-N2--NSM ιδου-I εγω- P--NS διακρινω-VF2-FAI1S ανα-P μεσος-A1--ASM προβατον-N2N-GSN και-C προβατον-N2N-GSN κριος-N2--GPM και-C τραγος-N2--GPM

18 και-C ου-D ικανος-A1--NSN συ- P--DP οτι-C ο- A--ASF καλος-A1--ASF νομη-N1--ASF νεμω-V1I-IMI2P και-C ο- A--APN καταλοιπος-A1B-APN ο- A--GSF νομη-N1--GSF συ- P--GP καταπατεω-V2I-IAI2P ο- A--DPM πους-N3D-DPM συ- P--GP και-C ο- A--ASN καταιστημι-VXI-XAPASN υδωρ-N3--ASN πινω-V1I-IAI2P και-C ο- A--ASN λοιπος-A1--ASN ο- A--DPM πους-N3D-DPM συ- P--GP ταρασσω-V1I-IAI2P

19 και-C ο- A--APN προβατον-N2N-APN εγω- P--GS ο- A--APN πατημα-N3M-APN ο- A--GPM πους-N3D-GPM συ- P--GP νεμω-V1I-IMI3P και-C ο- A--ASN ταρασσω-VK--XPPASN υδωρ-N3--ASN υπο-P ο- A--GPM πους-N3D-GPM συ- P--GP πινω-V1I-IAI3P

20 δια-P ουτος- D--ASN οδε- D--APN λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM κυριος-N2--NSM ιδου-I εγω- P--NS διακρινω-VF2-FAI1S ανα-P μεσος-A1--ASM προβατον-N2N-GSN ισχυρος-A1A-GSN και-C ανα-P μεσος-A1--ASM προβατον-N2N-GSN ασθενης-A3H-GSN

21 επι-P ο- A--DPF πλευρα-N1A-DPF και-C ο- A--DPM ωμος-N2--DPM συ- P--GP διαωθεω-V2--PMI2P και-C ο- A--DPN κερας-N3T-DPN συ- P--GP κερατιζω-V1I-IAI2P και-C πας-A3--ASN ο- A--ASN εκλειπω-V1--PAPASN εκθλιβω-V1I-IAI2P

22 και-C σωζω-VF--FAI1S ο- A--APN προβατον-N2N-APN εγω- P--GS και-C ου-D μη-D ειμι-V9--PAS3P ετι-D εις-P προνομη-N1--ASF και-C κρινω-VF2-FAI1S ανα-P μεσος-A1--ASM κριος-N2--GSM προς-P κριος-N2--ASM

23 και-C αναιστημι-VF--FAI1S επι-P αυτος- D--APM ποιμην-N3--ASM εις-A3--ASM και-C ποιμαινω-VF2-FAI3S αυτος- D--APM ο- A--ASM δουλος-N2--ASM εγω- P--GS *δαυιδ-N---ASM και-C ειμι-VF--FMI3S αυτος- D--GPM ποιμην-N3--NSM

24 και-C εγω- P--NS κυριος-N2--NSM ειμι-VF--FMI1S αυτος- D--DPM εις-P θεος-N2--ASM και-C *δαυιδ-N---NSM εν-P μεσος-A1--DSM αυτος- D--GPM αρχων-N3--NSM εγω- P--NS κυριος-N2--NSM λαλεω-VAI-AAI1S

25 και-C διατιθημι-VF--FMI1S ο- A--DSM *δαυιδ-N---DSM διαθηκη-N1--ASF ειρηνη-N1--GSF και-C απο αναιζω-VF2-FAI1S θηριον-N2N-APN πονηρος-A1A-APN απο-P ο- A--GSF γη-N1--GSF και-C καταοικεω-VF--FAI3P εν-P ο- A--DSF ερημος-N2--DSF και-C υπνοω-VF--FAI3P εν-P ο- A--DPM δρυμος-N2--DPM

26 και-C διδωμι-VF--FAI1S αυτος- D--APM περικυκλω-D ο- A--GSN ορος-N3E-GSN εγω- P--GS και-C διδωμι-VF--FAI1S ο- A--ASM υετος-N2--ASM συ- P--DP υετος-N2--ASM ευλογια-N1A-GSF

27 και-C ο- A--NPN ξυλον-N2N-NPN ο- A--NPN εν-P ο- A--DSN πεδιον-N2N-DSN διδωμι-VF--FAI3S ο- A--ASM καρπος-N2--ASM αυτος- D--GPM και-C ο- A--NSF γη-N1--NSF διδωμι-VF--FAI3S ο- A--ASF ισχυς-N3--ASF αυτος- D--GSF και-C καταοικεω-VF--FAI3P επι-P ο- A--GSF γη-N1--GSF αυτος- D--GPM εν-P ελπις-N3D-DSF ειρηνη-N1--GSF και-C γιγνωσκω-VF--FMI3P οτι-C εγω- P--NS ειμι-V9--PAI1S κυριος-N2--NSM εν-P ο- A--DSN συντριβω-VA--AAN εγω- P--AS ο- A--ASM ζυγος-N2--ASM αυτος- D--GPM και-C εκαιρεω-VF2-FMI1S αυτος- D--APM εκ-P χειρ-N3--GSF ο- A--GPM καταδουλοω-VA--AMPGPM αυτος- D--APM

28 και-C ου-D ειμι-VF--FMI3P ετι-D εν-P προνομη-N1--DSF ο- A--DPN εθνος-N3E-DPN και-C ο- A--NPN θηριον-N2N-NPN ο- A--GSF γη-N1--GSF ουκετι-D μη-D εσθιω-VB--AAS3P αυτος- D--APM και-C καταοικεω-VF--FAI3P εν-P ελπις-N3D-DSF και-C ου-D ειμι-VF--FMI3S ο- A--NSM εκφοβεω-V2--PAPNSM αυτος- D--APM

29 και-C αναιστημι-VF--FAI1S αυτος- D--DPM φυτον-N2N-ASN ειρηνη-N1--GSF και-C ουκετι-D ειμι-VF--FMI3P αποολλυω-V5--PMPNPM λιμος-N2--DSM επι-P ο- A--GSF γη-N1--GSF και-C ου-D μη-D φερω-VA--AAS3P ετι-D ονειδισμος-N2--ASM εθνος-N3E-GPN

30 και-C γιγνωσκω-VF--FMI3P οτι-C εγω- P--NS ειμι-V9--PAI1S κυριος-N2--NSM ο- A--NSM θεος-N2--NSM αυτος- D--GPM και-C αυτος- D--NPM λαος-N2--NSM εγω- P--GS οικος-N2--NSM *ισραηλ-N---GSM λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM

31 προβατον-N2N-NPN εγω- P--GS και-C προβατον-N2N-NPN ποιμνιον-N2N-GSN εγω- P--GS ειμι-V9--PAI2P και-C εγω- P--NS κυριος-N2--NSM ο- A--NSM θεος-N2--NSM συ- P--GP λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM κυριος-N2--NSM

   

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Arcana Coelestia #9334

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

9334. 'Lest perhaps the land becomes desolate' means a deficiency in that case, and little spiritual life, that is to say, if the removal were hurried. This is clear from the meaning of 'the land' as the Church in general and also in particular, the Church in particular being a person who becomes an embodiment of the Church, since the Church exists within a person and comprises one who has been regenerated (for the meaning of 'the land' as the Church in general, see 9325, and for its meaning as the Church in particular, or a person who has been regenerated, 82, 620, 636, 913, 1411, 1733, 2117, 2118 (end), 2571, 3368, 3379; this person is also called 'the land' in Malachi,

All the nations will declare you blessed, and you will be a land of delight. Malachi 3:12.) and from the meaning of 'desolate' as a deficiency, and little spiritual life. For 'desolate', when used in reference to the Church within a person, means a deficiency of truth and good, thus also a deficiency of spiritual life since that life is provided by these. The implications of this, that there is a deficiency and little spiritual life if falsities and evils are removed hurriedly, are that when a person undergoes regeneration, which is accomplished by the implantation of spiritual truth and good, and at the same time by the removal of falsity and evil, the regeneration is not hurried but takes place slowly.

[2] The reason for this is that all the things the person has thought, intended, or done since early childhood have entered into the composition of his life. They have also formed themselves into a network which is such that one cannot be moved without all of them together being moved. For a wicked person is an image of hell, and a good person is an image of heaven; and also the evils and falsities with a wicked person are interconnected in the same way as the communities of hell are with one another, of which that person is a part, while the forms of good and the truths with a good person are interconnected in the same way as heavenly communities are with one another, of which this person is a part. From this it is evident that the evils and falsities with a wicked person cannot be removed suddenly from where they are. They can be removed only in the measure that forms of good and truths in their proper order have been implanted more deeply within the person; for heaven with a person removes hell. If the removal were done suddenly the person would pass out, for the whole network of things, every single one, would be thrown into confusion and deprive him of his life.

[3] The fact that regeneration or the implantation of the life of heaven with a person begins when he is a young child and continues right on to the final phase of his life in the world, and the fact that after life in the world his perfection continues for evermore, see 2679, 3203, 3584, 3665, 3690, 3701, 4377, 4551, 4552, 5126, 6751, 8772, 9103, 9296, 9297, and in particular 5122, 5398, 5912, 9258. Also, and this is an arcanum, a person's regeneration in the world is merely the foundation for the unending perfection of his life. The person who has led a good life undergoes perfection in the next life; see what has been shown regarding young children, in 2289-2309, and regarding the state and condition of gentiles there, in 2589-2604.

  
Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

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Arcana Coelestia #3701

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

3701. 'And behold, the angels of God going up and coming down on it' means an infinite and eternal communication and the consequent joining together - a going up, so to speak, from what is lowest, and after that, when order has been inverted, a coming down to it. This is clear from the meaning of 'the angels' as some aspect of the Lord's Divine meant by the expression 'angels' when used in the Word, dealt with in 1925, 2319, 2821, 3039. The aspect meant here is Divine Truth. This is clear from the fact that they are called 'the angels of God', for the name God is used when truth is the subject in the internal sense, but Jehovah when good is the subject, see 2586, 2769, 2807, 2822. This is why although the name Jehovah is used directly after this in the phrase 'Jehovah standing above it', they are nevertheless referred to here as 'the angels of God', since the subject is truth from which good springs, represented by 'Jacob' here, as stated many times above. As regards the expression 'going up and coming down on the stairway' meaning in the highest sense infinite and eternal communication and the consequent joining together, this is clear without further explanation. But one cannot speak of a communication between, and the consequent joining together of the Lord's Divine itself and His Divine Human unless at the same time one calls these attributes infinite and eternal, for in the Lord everything is infinite and eternal - infinite so far as Being (Esse) is concerned and eternal so far as Manifestation (Existere) is concerned. From what has been stated up to now it is evident that 'a stairway set up on the earth, and its top reaching to heaven, and behold, the angels of God going up and coming down on it' means in a nutshell a going up so to speak from what is lowest, and after that, when order is inverted, a coming down to it.

[2] The nature of this going up and coming down becomes clear from what has been stated and shown above in 3539, 3548, 3556, 3563, 3570, 3576, 3603, 3607, 3610, 3665, 3690. But because this order - which comes into effect when a person is being regenerated and which is described in the internal sense here and in what follows - is completely unknown in the Church, let the nature of it be illustrated further: It is well known that a person is born into the same disposition as his parents, grandparents, and great grandparents, going back for centuries, and so into hereditary evil gradually accumulated by all those before him, so much so that there is nothing but evil in what he does when he acts from himself. As a consequence both his understanding and his will have been totally spoiled and of himself he does not will anything good at all and therefore does not understand anything true at all. That which he calls good, indeed believes to be good, is in fact evil, and that which he calls the truth, indeed believes to be the truth, is in fact falsity. Take, for example, loving himself more than others, wanting things to be better for himself than for others, desiring what belongs to someone else, and considering only himself and not others unless he himself will benefit. Because he desires these things of himself he indeed calls them good and also true. And what is more, if anyone harms or tries to harm these things which by him are called good and true, he hates him and is also filled with thoughts of revenge. He desires and also seeks that person's ruin, and takes delight in this insofar as he actually strengthens such intentions in himself, that is, as frequently as he actually puts them into effect.

[3] When such a person enters the next life his desires remain the same. The actual disposition which he has acquired in the world by the life he led remains, and that delight is perceived plainly by others. Consequently he is unable to be in any heavenly community where everyone wants things to be better for others than for himself; but he is in some community of hell whose delight is similar to his own. It is that disposition of his which needs to be rooted out while he is living in the world, something that cannot possibly be achieved except through regeneration from the Lord, that is, through receiving quite another will and therefore quite another understanding - by becoming a new person so far as both those powers of mind are concerned. But for this to come about he must first of all be born like a young child again, learn what evil and falsity are, and learn what good and truth are, for without knowledge or awareness of these he is unable to have any good conferred on him. Indeed of himself he does not acknowledge anything else as good except that which is evil, nor anything else as truth except that which is false.

[4] To make a person new, cognitions are instilled into him such as are not completely contrary to those he has already - for example, the idea that all love starts in himself; the idea that one should consider oneself first and others only after that; the idea that those people who are outwardly poor and wretched should be helped irrespective of what they are like inwardly; and that similarly widows and orphans should be helped solely because they are called such; and at length the idea that enemies in general should be helped irrespective of who they may be; and also the idea that by acting in these ways one is able to merit heaven. These and other ideas like them are the cognitions proper to the early childhood of his new life. They are such that because they derive to some extent from his previous life, or the disposition belonging to his previous life, they also derive to some extent from his new life into which he is being led in this way. They are consequently such as allow into themselves things that contribute towards the formation of a new will and of a new understanding. They are the lowest forms of good and truth, and it is with these that people who are being regenerated start out. And because these lowest forms of good and truth allow more interior truths into themselves, that is, truths closer to Divine truths, falsities which a person had previously believed to be truths are also rooted out.

[5] People who are being regenerated however do not learn such things simply as matters of knowledge but as matters of life, for they practice those truths. But their practice of them has its beginnings in the new will which the Lord is instilling, though they are totally unaware of it. And to the extent they welcome that new will they also welcome those cognitions, put them into practice, and believe them. But to the extent they do not welcome that new will they are indeed able to learn such truths but not to put them into effect since they consider them purely as matters of knowledge and not of life.

[6] That state is the state of early and later childhood as regards the new life which is to replace the previous life, but the state of the early and later youth of that life is a state when no attention is paid to any person's outward presentation of himself but to what he is like with regard to good - first of all with regard to it in public affairs, then in private affairs, and at length in spiritual, at which point he starts to possess and to love good first and foremost, and from good the person. And when after that he is more perfect still his concern is to aid those who are governed by good, his help depending on the kind of good present with those whom he helps. At length he takes delight in helping them. And because he takes delight in good he also takes pleasure in ideas that support it. Those supporting ideas he acknowledges as truths, which also constitute the truths of his new understanding which flow from the forms of good which belong to his new will.

[7] To the same extent as he takes delight in that good and takes pleasure in those truths he also feels an aversion to the evils of his previous life and a displeasure in its falsities. This is why things belonging to the previous will are now separated from those belonging to the new will, and those belonging to the previous understanding from those belonging to the new understanding. The determining factor in this separation is not the affection for knowing them, but the affection for doing them. As a consequence he now sees that the truths belonging to his early childhood in relation one to another have existed inversely and that those same truths have been reorganized little by little into another order, that is to say, their interrelationship has been changed so that those which initially occupied the first place now occupy the last. In this way he sees that by means of those truths which belonged to his early and later childhood the angels of God so to speak went up by means of a stairway from earth to heaven, whereas now by means of the truths belonging to his adult life the angels of God so to speak come down by means of the stairway from heaven to earth.

  
Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

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