Charity (Whitehead) n. 137

Previous Number Next Number Next Translation See Latin 

137. (III.) All the offices and employments, regarded as to the goods of use, constitute a form which corresponds to the heavenly form. The heavenly form is such that every individual there is in some ministry, some function, some office or employment, and in work. Such are all the heavenly societies, that no one may be useless. One who does nothing and who wishes to live in ease, or only to talk and walk and sleep, is not tolerated there. All things there are so ordered that each is assigned a place nearer or more remote from the center according to its use. In proportion as they are nearer the center the palaces are more magnificent; as they are more remote from the center they are less magnificent. They are different in the east, in the west, in the south, and in the north. Everyone when he enters a society is introduced into his office, and is assigned a home corresponding to his work. Every society is a series of affections, in complete order.


This page is part of the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

© 2000-2001 The Academy of the New Church