through the transgression of one commandment, no longer believes it to
be a sin to do anything against God or anything against the neighbor.

But the opposite is true of those who abstain from the evil forbidden in
one commandment, and who shun and afterward turn away from it as a sin
against God. Because such fear of God, they come into communion with
angels of heaven, and are led by the Lord to abstain from the evils
forbidden in the other commandments and to shun them, and finally to
turn away from them as sins; and if perchance they have sinned against
them, yet they repent and thus by degrees are withdrawn from them.
(A.E., n. 1028.)




Part Third--PROFANATIONS OF GOOD AND TRUTH

I. Goods and Truths and Their Opposites

The Divine good that goes forth from the Lord is united with His Divine
truth, as heat from the sun is with light in the time of spring. But
angels, who are recipients of the Divine good and Divine truth going
forth from the Lord, are distinguished as celestial and spiritual.
Those who receive more of the Lord's Divine good than of His Divine
truth are called celestial angels; because these constitute the kingdom
of the Lord that is called the celestial kingdom. But the angels who
receive more of the Lord's Divine truth than of his Divine good are
called spiritual angels, because of these the Lord's spiritual kingdom
consists. This makes clear that goods and truths have a twofold origin,
namely, a celestial origin and a spiritual origin. Those goods and