GOOD AND TRUTH (pt 1)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
GOOD AND TRUTH.
(pt 1)

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All things in the universe, which are according to Divine order, have relation to good and truth. There is nothing in heaven, and nothing in the world, which has not relation to these two; the reason is, because both good and truth proceed from the Divine from Whom all things are.

Hence it appears that there is nothing more necessary for man to know than what good and truth are; how the one has respect to the other; and how one is conjoined to the other. But such knowledge is especially necessary for the man of the church; for as all things of heaven have relation to good and truth, so also have all things of the church, because the good and truth of heaven are also the good and truth of the church. It is on this account that a beginning is made from good and truth.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 11-12)

• In the manuscript, the author Emanuel Swedenborg, annexxed to each section of the doctrine extracts from the Arcana Coelestia, because in these the same things are more fully explained.  Arcana Coelestia is available in print or online.