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Man does not wish to come out of spiritual servitude into spiritual liberty, for the reason, first, that he does not know what spiritual servitude is and what spiritual liberty is; he does not possess the truths that teach this; and without truths, spiritual servitude is believed to be freedom, and spiritual freedom to be servitude.
Truths, which enter with affection, are reproduced.
For the sake of this end there has been given to man the ability to elevate his understanding into the light in which the angels of heaven are, that he may see what he must will and must do.
From all this it may be concluded that an unregenerate man is like one who sees phantoms at night… and afterwards, when he is being regenerated, he is like the same man seeing in the early dawn that the things he saw at night are delusions.
No one can conquer an enemy without coming in site of him.
Open up your inward sense, and see and hear.
At this elevation there is no effort, no struggle.
There is nothing pleasurable except what is in harmony with the utmost depths of our divine nature.
What greater pleasure is there than to find myself the one thing that I ought to be, and the whole thing that I ought to be?
If you let yourself be made out in the right by another, you must no less let yourself be made out in the wrong by him. If approval and reward come to you from another, you must also expect his disapproval and punishment.
The man himself must become other than he was if he wants to comprehend truth — must become as true as truth itself.
Who is it that is to become free? You, I, we. Free from what? From everything that is not you, not I, not we. I, therefore, am the seed that is to be freed from all wrappings, and free from all confining shells.
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible.
If the way which, as I have shown, leads hither seems very difficult, it can nevertheless be found.
So long, therefore, as we are not agitated by passions which are contrary to our nature, so long is the power of the soil by which it seeks to understand things not impeded; and so long, therefore, has it the power of forming clear and distinct ideas.
A singular strength of mind is therefore required to enable a man to live among others consistently with his own ideas and convictions, to be master of himself, and not fall into the habits or exhibit the same passions as those with whom he associates.
There is nothing more useful to man than that which most agrees with his own nature.
I have earnestly endeavoured not to laugh at human actions, nor to lament them, but to understand them.
Those who are believed to be the most mild and humble are usually the most ambitious and envious.
It follows absolutely, that one who uses his understanding correctly, can fall a prey to no sorrow.
