Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 428

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428. THERE ARE VERY MANY VARIETIES OF HEAVENLY ENJOYMENTS AND DELIGHTS IN WHICH IS HAPPINESS They are called heavenly enjoyments which exist sensitively with souls, as if they were living in the body. There are enjoyments which affect them so pleasantly that they can scarcely bear more. But there are delights that come from a still more interior source. In enjoyments there are types of happiness; in delights there are types of heavenly conjugial joy. In a word, there are very many degrees of enjoyments and of delights, both as to differences and intensity. These enjoyments are communicable without diminution with those who communicate them. True enjoyments and true delights have happiness in themselves, and in this there is peace, and in this innocence. Thus true enjoyments and delights come solely from God Messiah, as from their one only source. 1747, Dec. 30.


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