Day 6: Friday, March 13

Jesus says to him, He who has bathed has no other need than to wash the feet, but is wholly clean; and you are clean, but not all. For He knew the one betraying Him; on account of this He said, You are not all clean. When therefore He had washed their feet and had taken His garments, reclining again, He said to them, Do you know what I have done to you? You call Me Teacher and Lord; and you say well, for I am. If then I have washed your feet, being the Lord and the Teacher, you also ought to wash the feet of one another. For I have given you an example, that as I have done to you, you also should do. Amen, amen, I say to you, The servant is not greater than his lord, neither is an apostle greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, happy are you if you do them. John 13:10-17

In the representative church it was customary to wash the feet with water, and thereby to signify that the unclean things of the natural man were washed away. The unclean things of the natural man are all those things which are of the love of self and of the love of the world; and when these unclean things have been washed away, then goods and truths flow in, for it is solely these unclean things that hinder the influx of good and truth from the Lord. Arcana Coelestia 3147

They who are in charity scarcely see the evil of another, but observe all his goods and truths, and put a good interpretation on what is evil and false. Such are all the angels, which they have from the Lord, who bends all evil into good. Arcana Coelestia 1079

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