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28 whether it were so. Therefore they were led into a state of heavenly love,—their opposing principles being meanwhile removed,—and were carried forward some distance where there was an angelic heaven; and from thence they conversed with me, saying that they perceived a more interior happiness than could be expressed in words, lamenting greatly that they must return to their former state.

Others also were elevated into heaven, and in proportion as their elevation became more interior or exalted, they entered into such intelligence and wisdom as to be able to understand things which before were incomprehensible to them. Hence it is evident that love proceeding from the Lord is the receptacle of heaven and of all things there.

That love to the Lord and love toward the neighbor comprehend in themselves all divine truths, may be manifest from what the Lord Himself spoke concerning these two loves, saying: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul. This is the first and greatest commandment. The second, which is like unto it, is, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." Matt. xxii. 37-40. The law and the prophets are the whole Word, thus all divine truth. (H. H., n. 18, 19.)