Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1471

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1471. In like manner they understand what the fruit of faith is, namely, that affection or love is life, and thus is within intellectual faith, the idea of which faith then ceases; and so it is within the will, the idea of which also ceases; and at length in the action which is the fruit of faith. Thus the idea of action is the complex of all, but it is only affection in its forms, or rather, it is only affection. They do not admit form, or an expression relating to form, but only that understanding, will, and action are solely affection. This they understand, if it is so represented that the idea of understanding, and so of will, and thus of action, perishes.


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