Doc. of Life (Dick) n. 110

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110. The lusts of evil, which form the interiors of man from his birth, are not removed except by the Lord alone. For the Lord flows in from the spiritual into the natural, but man from himself flows from the natural into the spiritual. Now this, influx is contrary to order, and does not Operate upon lusts to their removal, but shuts them in more and more closely as it establishes itself. Further, since hereditary evil, thus shut in, remains concealed, therefore after death, when man becomes a spirit, it bursts the covering in which it had been hidden, and breaks forth as a corrupt discharge from an ulcer that had only been superficially healed.


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