New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-12-11

owe. whea vet love Is the very sou Or life 3
thought and the thought. II owe te taken ava
from IL. grows cold snd dies Ike slower "a
prived Of It's heat for love enkindcs. viyhes srr
animstes thought. Set your mino at work. an
try BY al tte powers Of meditation, whether yo'
can think without some affection which Is Of IN
lovc, and you Will discover in yourself that Il .
impossible. Hence 10 Is evident that love Is th'
lie OF the understandings and Of the thought theuc
derived ard whs, IS the life Of the understsndin.
snd Of the ihoash, thence derived this also IS the
lie OF the whole man, for II ia the life OF al the
motions thus Il Is the life Of The organs by which
the senses and motions exist
This latter remark shows how u IS that the IN
terror life OF the spirit % really tie lic OF the
material organism, notw outstanding al the 8;
tempts Of chemical physiology 10 establish seps
/ rate vitality IN the body That the forms and
substances. says Swedenhorg, sppertsining n
man sre forms recipient OF his celestial sud spsri.
rgsl things il very manifest from signs actually
visible IS from thought, which lows into the
organic forms Of the tongue, and produces speech .
/ snd the affections Of the mind, which present
! themselves visibly IN the face and by the Will.
which by the muscular forms flows INTO actions.
! ~ Thought and VIII. which produce such effects
are spiritual and celestial whereas the forms and
| substances which receive them are material that
these latter are formed stogether for the reception
| Of the former s evident. Hence it Is plain that
the latter are derived from the former snd that
unless they were So derived, they could not exist
That is TO say, IN other words that the body lie
rived from the soul which is tho inevitable con.
cusion OF SIT science and philosophy.
The grand position then. IS, that mans hie 10
fundamentally his love.
ANY one may convince himself Of the truth Of
this by sdverting 10 the effect OF shock Of dlssp
pOmtment falling upon dominant or absorbing
love The lite often cOllapses under the shock.
The ph, steal yields 20 the power OF the mental
and the mental is here bat another name ior the
spiritual IL is the love principle, whEh primarily
feels the blow the vital Is smltten ma the Nolun-
tary How otherwise account Tor the tact IN cues.
ton, which is familiar to all
As then We hnd the primary seat OF lite IN the
Will or love, copjoincd with the understanding, II
Is. IN its last analysis the inmost activity OF tho
principle OF love aud wisdom. tor It ~ into these
that man Is resolved. when everything external
and accessory is removed The process OF death
effects this resolution. The departure OF the soul
or spirit from the body Is the departure OF the life
the lite, therefore. resides IN the spirit, and the
constituent elements OF every human spirit are
Love aud Wisdom, a which the former 5 the ba-
SIS aud, it were, the parent OF the latter the
two being related to each other llke heat aud light.
The genesis 50 10 speak OF Wisdom from Love
is simply this Love originating IN the Lord, as
sun IS the At of lie Tor vital heat In angels ani
men consequently It is their lite, and the dervs.
tions OF love sire called affections and 10y these are
produced perceptions, and consequently thoughts
therefore wisdom IN It's origin Is hove.
That affections produce thoughts, any ono may
be satisfied by appealing 20 his own thoughts but
as good from beng the object of love- u corelstve
On love, and truth tor the same reason coreauve
To wisdom, therefore It Is equally proper 30 say
that life is the influx of the divine goodness snd
truth of which mans will and understanding are
the adapted receptsces. AS this influx is ncces
sarly of two fold kind, aud received iuto a cor
responding two told spiritual organism, there.oce
Ar,. .,I lt.f.s
text, frequently occurs IN the Sacred Word. Hut
the life OF the love is always the esss, and the life
Of the understanding, the cristcre. Of being the
one the substance. the other the form
But however obvious 20 rehoxlOn the truth OF
what is now advanced respecting the origin and
nature OF life, yet we are constrained o. remark
that the doctrine affirmed IN regard to infiuent lie
IS not for the most part an acceptable doctrine
Men DO not like to acknow edge themselves as
mere rcceptaces or organic forms OF lite. Ine
idea of living, feeling, thinking, speaking aud
acting from themselves, Is more congenia to their
natural proprnD, aud this prompting 10 confirmed
bv appearances, tor the appearance Is that man
has life in himself instead OF being mere recp-
lent vessel. Upon this head must be allow ed u
enlarge little IN the words OF our author
"tis generally believed that lits Is in man, 80 his
own consequently that he 10 not only recipient of life.
but life Itself this general belief 10 grounded In apesr
ance by which 1t seems II man lived, that TO- per
ceyed thought spoke, and acted altogether Of him
self wherefore this proposition, that man arecipient
Ut life and lie itself mus needs appear Like some
strange doctrine, like downright paradox. ciashing
with all sensible conception, In consequence OF s op
position TO appearances The cause OF this isscous
belief. which supposes that man Is fe and consequent
y that he has interested life which he atterwsrd pro
psgsted by descent into his children, have deduced
rom appearance but the true ground or caase Of such
appearance 10 this that many AZ this dsy
mere natural men, and few respectively are spiritual
and the natural man judges by appearances snd OF
course by fslsces, which are dramatically opposite Ia
this truth that Is not life, but only recipient OF
lie"
Two reasons are given for mans being 50 con.
stituted as seemingly 10 have life IN himself whs
in fact il IS from the Lord The first is the divine
love and mercy tow ards the human race, In virtue
which, the Lord wills to communicate TO man, "a
tar as possible, every divine prerogative, still
teaching, how eyer, that he Is not his own. Tho
other reason assigned is thus expressed.
The principal cause which 10 liie and the instrunen.
tai cause which d recipient Of lie, act together
cause and this 10 et In the Instruments, cause, which
recipient thus in IN himself the case, In ihs
respect altogether like the sensation u light being
the eve which gives birth sight and Of sound being
the ear which gives birth 10 hearing and VI tho volatile
parts In tho air being In the nostri which gives birth
to smell, and OF tbs soluble parts Of foods ooing on
tongue which give birth 10 taste whom yet the eyes
hs ears the nosts, and tongue, are recipient organ
lied substances. thus Instrumental causes while light
sound the volatile particles 10 the ar and tho soluble
particles the tongue, the principal causes which
act 20 gsther that called principal which
acts and tibet Is called instrumental which suffers itself
~ be- acted upon. lie who examines tbs subject more
deeply may know that man, a. u all and singular
things sppertsDng TO him Is organ Ut life and that
what produces sense and perception nows la from an
exsneOus source and that the life tself causes u
feel and TO perceive as from himself"
Every one will indeed confess Ia general way,
that he derives his life originally from the Lord.
Just as a man at eighty will confess that he derived
his existence proximatey from his earthly father.
though that father may have been eighty years un-
der the sod H. can afford " make this acknowl-
edgement because he now feels himself b. be very
remote from the psternal source Of bis being, and
therefore his se.-loye Is not closely pressed upon
by tife palpabe conviction OF q derived origin
Thus in regard TO life, az emanating from the Deity.
men have not the hsrdibood TO deny It ia the grss
but they still do not love 10 think OF IL perpetual
influx. A body Of water collected IA reservoir,
and aterw ard cut of from ts source illustrates the
common idea OF life that Of lake PerPctusi'y
fed from fountain, illustrates the true idea. The
teaching Of the New Church knows VI no lie IN the
Universe but what is momentariy sustained by
connection with It's source. The virtual denial OF
this is the germ OF all apostacy, and the strength
Of the moral oppugnation against the truth On this
head, has blinded tbe eyes OF science TO tue true
theory 81 the principle.
FourfhIy, Another snnseciation Of the Now
Church IT, chat us one and the same }ife yarfsns-