the garment, was a rose scented perfume
with which to adorn my body. Smelling like
a rose, it was obvious to me that the concepts
of Divine Providence and Divine Love and
Wisdom were an integral part in the
Mysteries of the Redemption, and as I wore
the garment of the Lord, the knowledge of it
was made energetically manifest unto me.
"Conjunction of good and truth in others is
provided by the Lord through purification in
two ways; one through temptations, and the
other through fermentations. Spiritual
temptations are nothing else than combats
against the evils and falsities exhaled from
hell and affecting man. By these combats a
man is purified from evils and falsities, and
good and truth are united in him. Spiritual
fermentations take place in many ways, and
in heaven as well as on earth; but in the
world it is not known what they are or how
they come about. For evils and their
falsities, let into societies, act as ferments
do in meal or in must, separating the
heterogeneous and conjoining the
homogeneous until there is clarity and
purity. Such fermentations are meant in the
Lord's words: 'The kingdom of heaven is
like leaven which a woman took and hid in
three measures of meal until the whole was
brent
(Brent)
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