The Third Round: Love or Charity in Spiritual Work Has An Objective Quality to it

From the work, Arcana Coelestia 3283.2

It is the rational in fact that coordinates everything in the natural, and in accordance with that coordination fittingly regards the things that are there. Indeed the rational is like a higher faculty of seeing which, when it looks at facts belonging to the natural man, is like someone looking down on to a plain below him. The light of that faculty of seeing is the light of truth, but the origin of that light rests with the good present in the rational.

From the work, Arcana Coelestia 4394

When a person in faith and life is governed by interior truths he is within the Lord’s kingdom and experiences the state of serenity, at which time his vision of exterior truths is like that of a person looking down from a tall hill onto a boisterous sea.

 

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