Doctrine of Faith # 14

By ემანუელ შვედენბორგი

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14. To put it more clearly: Goodness is nothing else but useful endeavor. Charity in its first origin is consequently an affection for useful endeavor; and because useful endeavor loves the means, the affection produces an affection for the means, which leads to a knowledge of those means. And through this progression an affection for useful endeavor finds expression and becomes charity.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.