6. [See The Word Explained 944-66, where the explanation of Genesis 30:39 in general continues, but here especially 958-66.]
967. Uninterrupted and constant are the feelings that govern our mind devoted to understanding, and, in fact, all its thoughts and mental images, right down to the least details in the mental images. And so constant are the changes of the feelings, that they perform unceasing spiralling movements having now a wider, now a narrower range, going to almost opposite extremes, or from falsities to truths themselves. The wider the range is, the more perfect and thus the happier is the state when one is governed by the Messiah. And this all happens in such an amazing way that it is most difficult to describe even in general terms.
I have experienced this, by the Divine mercy and grace of the Messiah, so strongly that I can declare and testify from actual, most lucid experience, that it is nothing else but feelings that govern all thoughts, and that without them, there is no life of the understanding, and consequently no understanding.
If I were to tell everything that I have been allowed by the Divine mercy and grace of the Messiah to learn from actual experience, as well as from regular conversations with heavenly beings and thus from living proof during a period of several months, about feelings of every kind (both those that govern our mind devoted to understanding and its will, and those that govern our moods and even our body) if I were to tell but a few proofs of actual experience from among these instances, people should be amply convinced that nothing else but feelings or loves govern the whole mind and all its ideas, thoughts, efforts and actions, the least as well as the greatest.
[Feeling (Affection); Love; Range (Field); Falsity; Opposite; Truth]
