Doctrine of Life #81

By Emanuel Swedenborg

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81. The evil of stealing enters more deeply into a person than any other evil, because it is accompanied by guile and deceit, and guile and deceit insinuate themselves even into a person’s spiritual mind, which is the seat of his thinking with understanding.

That a person has a spiritual mind and a natural mind will be seen below.

  
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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.