Day 11: Wednesday, March 18

If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will beseech the Father, and He will give you another Comforter, that it may remain with you into eternity: the spirit of Truth, which the world cannot receive, because it beholds it not, neither knows it; but you know it, because it remains with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I come to you. Yet a little while and the world beholds Me no more, but you behold Me; because I live, you shall live also. In that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me; and he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him. John 14:15-21

From [the passage just above] it is evident that in the union of His Human Essence with His Divine Essence, the Lord had in view the conjunction of Himself with the human race, and that this was His end, and this was His love, which was such that the salvation of the human race, as beheld in the union of Himself with His Father, was to Him the inmost joy. There is also here described that which unites, namely, to have and to do His commandments, and thereby to love the Lord. Arcana Coelestia 2034:3

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