Charity (Whitehead) n. 90

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90. V. MAN IS THE SUBJECT OF CHARITY; AND SUCH AS IS THE CHARITY WITH HIM SUCH A SUBJECT OF IT HE IS; AND SUCH IS THE CHARITY THAT HE EXERCISES TOWARDS THE NEIGHBOR. These things shall be explained in the following order:

(I.) Man was created that he might be a form of love and wisdom. (II.) At this day, in order that a man may be a man he ought to be charity in form. (III.) A man ought to be charity in form not from himself but from the Lord; he is thus a receptacle of charity. (IV.) A man is such a form of charity so far as good of the will is conjoined with truths of the understanding in him. (V.) Whatever proceeds from such a man derives from the form a likeness, so that it is charity. (VI.) The neighbor may be loved from what is not charity; but this, in itself regarded, is not loving the neighbor. (VII.) He loves the neighbor who loves him from charity in himself.


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