Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 8549

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8549. A person does not receive spiritual life by birth from his parents, only natural life. Spiritual life consists in loving God above all things and loving one's neighbour as oneself, and doing so in accordance with the commandments of faith taught by the Lord in the Word. But natural life consists in loving self and the world more than the neighbour, indeed more than God Himself.


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