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Today it is an honor to present selections from “Divine Providence,” where Emanuel Swedenborg (vegetarian) reminds us to have faith in God and we will be able to experience all the goodness that comes from God.A man is reformed and regenerated by the Lord by means of the two faculties and cannot be reformed or regenerated without them.“The Lord teaches that, Unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Few know what it is to be born anew or regenerated. For most do not know what love and charity are, therefore what faith is, either. One who does not know what love and charity are cannot know what faith is because charity and faith make one as good and truth do, and as affection which is of the will, and thought which is of the understanding, do. […]No one can enter the kingdom of God unless he has been born anew. […] To become spiritual from being natural is to be born again or regenerated. Three things need to be considered if one is to know how man is regenerated: the nature of his first state, which is one of damnation; the nature of his second state, which is one of reformation; and the nature of his third state, which is one of regeneration. […]”“The regenerated man acts from charity and makes what is of his faith a part of his charity. But he becomes spiritual only in the measure in which he is in truths. Everyone is regenerated by means of truths and of a life in accord with them; by truths he knows life and by his life he does the truths. So he unites good and truth, which is the spiritual marriage in which Heaven is.Man is reformed and regenerated by means of the two faculties called rationality and liberty, and cannot be reformed or regenerated without them, because it is by means of rationality that he can understand and know what is evil and what is good, and hence what is false and true, and by means of liberty that he can will what he understands and knows. […]”
