The Doctrine of Charity - Swedenborg Foundation

CHARITY 289213. But that these things may come into clearer light, they shallbe explained in the following order:(1) All the truths of faith in the church are from the Word.(2) The truths of faith which are from the Word teach what is to bebelieved, and what is to be done, that a man may be allotted eternallife.(3) The church is named from doctrine; and religion from a lifeaccording to doctrine.(4) With those who are in a faith separated from charity, both indoctrine, and life, there is neither a church nor religion.3 34214. The neighbor who is to be loved in the natural sense is thefellow citizen, a smaller and greater society, one’s native country,and the human race4215. The neighbor is to be loved according to his spiritual good,and thence according to his moral, civil, and natural good;consequently, the neighbor that is to be loved, in the spiritualsense, is good(1) Man is not man from the face and body, but from the good of hiswill.34. In the photolithograph 3 and 4 come in reverse order. [—Translator]