December16

Find Spiritual Success

And it came··to··pass, as the angels went··away◦ from them into heaven, the men, the shepherds, said◦ one· to ·another, Let us now go even to▵ Bethlehem, and see◦ this saying that has come··to··pass, which the Lord has made··known to us. And they came in··haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in the manger. (Luke 2:15-16)

In proportion as anyone loves the truth, in the same proportion he desires to know it, and in the same proportion is affected at heart when he finds it. No one else comes into wisdom. (Doctrine of Life 89)

While man is being regenerated... he is affected with truth for the sake of the end that he may become intelligent ...when he has been regenerated... [he is affected with truth] that he may become wise; or what is the same, in the former state he is affected with truth for the sake of doctrine, but in the latter for the sake of life. (Arcana Coelestia 6247)

But he who is being regenerated is led by degrees from this more remote life (that is, moral life), into a life nearer to Divine doctrinal things; that is, into spiritual life. (Arcana Coelestia 3690.4)

previous		next