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CHARITY 232not charity with him who does them, but with him to whom theyare done. In outward appearance it is charity.41. When one has shunned an evil as a sin several times, thenonly the good that he does appears to him, and yet they aretogether in him. But still the one must be prior; and it actually isprior and interior.3The neighbor that is to be loved, in the spiritual idea, is good,and truth42. It is said, in the spiritual idea, because this is the idea inwhich the spiritual man is, inwardly; and the angels are in the sameidea. This idea is abstract from matter, space, and time, andespecially is abstract from person.Arrangement in order:(1) Man is man not from his form, but from the good and truth inhim, or what is the same, from will and understanding.(2) Therefore the good and truth in a man is the neighbor that is tobe loved.(3) The quality of the neighbor is according to the quality of the goodand truth in a man; or such as the man is, such is the neighbor.(4) The degree of neighbor is according to the degree of good andtruth in a man; consequently, one man is not neighbor in the samedegree as another.
CHARITY 233(5) The good of the internal will is the neighbor that is to be loved,and not the good of the external will, unless this makes one with theother.(6) Truth is the neighbor as far as it proceeds from good and makesone with it, as form and essence.43. (1) Man is man not from his form, but from the good and truthin him, or what is the same, from will and understanding. It is knownthat the will and understanding are the very man, and not his form,which appears in the face and body as a man. Some are foolish andinsane, and yet appear as men; some are so natural that they are likeanimals, save that they can speak; others are rational and spiritual.The human form of these last may appear less beautiful, and yetthey are men more than the others. Take away the good and truthfrom them, and the human form remains, in which there is noman; they are as pictures and sculptured forms, and as apes.44. It is said, good and truth, that is, will and understanding,because good is of the will and truth is of the understanding; forthe will is the receptacle of good, and the understanding is thereceptacle of truth.45. And yet good and truth cannot be except in their subject.Nothing can be separated from its subject. Therefore man is theneighbor, but in the spiritual idea good and truth, from which manis man.46. (2) Therefore the good and truth in a man is the neighbor that isto be loved. Set before your eyes three or ten persons, whom you arechoosing for some domestic employment. Do you choose otherwisethan according to the good and truth in them, whence man is man?47. If you are choosing one among ten for the performance ofsome service, do you not inquire into his will and understanding?48. The one who is chosen is your neighbor who is loved. A mandevil may appear with a similar face as a man angel. Should not the
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CHARITY 2915. The signs of charity
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