Day 1: Sunday, March 8

On the morrow, a crowd of many, coming to the festival, having heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm-trees and went out to meet Him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel, who comes in the name of the Lord! And Jesus having found a young donkey, sat upon it, as it is written, Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, thy King comes, sitting on the colt of a donkey. But these things His disciples knew not at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they did these things to Him. Then the crowd that was with Him when He called Lazarus out of the sepulcher and raised him from the dead bore record. For this also the crowd met Him, because they heard that He had done this sign. The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, You behold that you profit nothing; see, the world is gone after Him. John 12:12-19

The very life of man is his love, and as his love is, such is his life, such even is the whole man; but it is the dominant or ruling love that makes the man. This love has many loves subordinate to it which are derivations from it; and while these are in appearance different loves, yet these single ones are included in the dominant love, and with it form one kingdom. The dominant love is like the king and head of the others. It directs them, and through them as mediate ends it looks to and is intent upon its own end, which is the first and last of all, and this both directly and indirectly.….

The two loves from which are all goods and truths, which… are love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, constitute heaven in man, for these rule in heaven; and because they constitute heaven in man they also constitute the church in him. The two loves from which are all evils and falsities, which… are the love of self and the love of the world, constitute hell in man, for they rule in hell; and consequently they destroy the church in man. True Christian Religion 399:1,7

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