第四节 灵性世界中的英国人
806# 人有两种思维状态：外在的和内在的。人在自然世界中处于外在状态，在灵性世界中处于内在状态。对于善人而言，这两种状态成为一体；但对于恶人而言，它们并不成为一体。人在其内在方面是怎样的，在自然世界中很少显明，因为人自幼学会作有道德、合乎理性的人，并且喜爱显得如此；然而在灵性世界中，他是怎样的便清楚显明，因为那时人是灵，而灵就是内在人。如今既然蒙准许我在那个世界中，并在那里看见来自这个国度和那个国度之人的内在人是怎样的，我就应当将其显明，因为这事关系重大。
806# 人有两种思维状态，即外在的和内在的。在自然界，他处于外在状态，在灵界，则处于内在状态。这两种状态在善人里面构成一体，但在恶人里面则不然。在世上，人的内在性质很少表现出来，因为他从小就学会了道德和理性，而且喜欢这样表现。但在灵界，他的性质是显而易见的，因为那时人是一个灵，灵就是内在人。由于我被允许在灵界，在那里看到来自世界不同国家的人们的内在性质，所以我觉得有必要让人们知道这一点，因为这很重要。
806. The British in the Spiritual World
There are two states of thought within us - an external state and an internal state. In our outer thinking we are in the physical world, but in our inner thinking we are in the spiritual world. In good people, these two states act as a unit; in evil people they do not.
What we are truly like inwardly is seldom obvious in the world, since we learn from early childhood to be moral and rational and we love to seem that way. In the spiritual world, though, what we are truly like is abundantly clear, because we are then a spirit, and our spirit is our inner self.
Because I have been allowed to be in the spiritual world and see there what people from various nations are truly like inwardly, I have a duty to reveal this information, since it is important.
806. The British 1 in the spiritual world.
Human beings have two modes of thinking, external and internal. In the natural world they use the external mode, in the spiritual world the internal. These two modes act as one in the case of the good, but not in the case of the wicked. It is rarely possible in the natural world to see what a person's interior is like, since he has learned from childhood to behave well and rationally, and he likes to seem to be so. But in the spiritual world everyone's nature is plain to see, for then he is a spirit, and the spirit is the internal man. Now because I have been allowed to be in that world and see there what internal men from different kingdoms are like, it is my duty, because of its importance, to make this generally known.
Footnotes:
1. The Latin uses the term equivalent to 'English', but it is clear that the Scots are included; Spiritual Diary 812.
806. THE ENGLISH IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD.
There are two states of thought in man, an external and an internal; in the external state he is in the natural world, in the internal in the spiritual world. In the good these states make one, but not in the evil. Man's internal nature is rarely manifest in the world, because from infancy he has learned to be moral and rational, and loves to appear such. But in the spiritual world it is clearly manifest what his nature is, for man is then a spirit, and a spirit is the internal man. And since it has been granted me to be in that world, and there to see the internal nature of men from different kingdoms of the world, I feel it necessary, because of its importance, to make this known.
806. IV. THE ENGLISH IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD.
Man has two states of thought, external and internal. He is in the external in the natural world, and in the internal in the spiritual world. These two states of thought make one in the good, but not in the wicked. The nature of man as to his internal seldom becomes manifest in the world, because he has learned from infancy to be moral and rational, and he loves to appear so; but in the spiritual world its nature is clearly seen, for a man is then a spirit, and the spirit is the internal man. Now, as I have been permitted to be in the spiritual world, and to see there the nature of the internal man in people of different countries, it behooves me to make it known, for it is important.
806. DE ANGLIS IN MUNDO SPIRITUALI.
Sunt duo Status cogitationis apud hominem, Externus et Internus; homo in Externo est in Mundo naturali, in Interno est in Mundo spirituali; hi Status unum faciunt apud bonos, sed non unum apud malos; qualis homo quoad Internum suum est, raro patet in Mundo, quoniam ab infantia didicit moralis et rationalis esse, et amat videri; sed in Mundo spirituali clare apparet qualis est, est enim tunc homo spiritus, ac spiritus est Internus homo. Nunc quia mihi datum est in illo Mundo esse, et ibi videre, quales Interni homines sunt ab uno Regno et ab altero, me oportet, quia interest, id manifestare.