The ‘good of love’ is the usefulness of practicing truth (7 mins)

About this episode

This episode explores the relationship between divine love and divine truth as essential elements of spiritual life.

Heaven and Hell 13. In heaven, the divine nature that emanates from the Lord is called divine truth, for reasons that will be given below. This divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord, out of his divine love. Divine love and the divine truth that derives from it are like the sun’s fire and the light that comes from it in our world. The love is like the sun’s fire, and the derivative truth is like the light from the sun. By reason of correspondence, fire means love and light means the truth that flows from it. This enables us to determine the character of the divine truth that emanates from divine love: in its essence, it is divine good united to divine truth, and because it is united, it gives life to everything in heaven the way the warmth of the sun, united to its light, makes everything fruitful on earth in spring and summer. It is different when the warmth is not united to light, when the light is therefore cold. Then everything slows down and lies there, snuffed out. The divine good we have compared to warmth is the good of love within and among angels, and the divine truth we have compared to light is the means and the source of this good of love…

People in this episode

Host: The Third Round

Topics covered

• divine truth
• divine love
• spirituality
• inner life
• Logopraxis principles

Keywords

• divine truth
• divine love
• spirituality
• Heaven and Hell
• Logopraxis

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Logopraxis

Books & works: Heaven and Hell

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