Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 1392

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1392. It is also usual for forms of delight and of happiness in the next life to be communicated from one to many by means of a real transferring that is remarkable, which delight and happiness then affect them in a similar way. These communications are effected without any reduction of delight and happiness with the one who communicates them I too have been allowed so to communicate delights to others by means of transferences of that kind. This shows what the happiness is like of those who love their neighbour more than themselves and who desire nothing more than to impart their own happiness to others. That desire has its origin in the Lord, who in the same way communicates forms of happiness to the angels. Communications of happiness consist in continual transferences like these, yet without any reflection upon the fact that they flow from so active a source and so to speak from such an open and willing determination.


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