46、再者，所有处在类似的良善中的人，即便以前从未谋面，也彼此认识，就好像世上熟知他的亲朋好友。这是因为，在来世只有属灵的亲属、关系和友谊，也就是源于爱和信的亲友关系。｛注1｝当我的灵魂离开肉体进入灵界，在天使的社群里，我有时蒙恩准看到这种关系。我当时看到的一些天使似乎是我从小就认识的，但另一些似乎根本不认识。前者和我的灵处在相似的状态｛注2｝，后者却迥异不同。
｛注1｝：在天堂，一切亲近、关系、联系，就像血缘关系一样，都来自良善，并取决于它的一致和不同（685， 917，1394，2739，3612，3815，4121）。
｛注2｝：【英57】“状态”（state）是史威登堡经常使用的一个术语，意思是“情况”，在下文的第154节中被定义为“生命和属于生命的事物的属性”。
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46. 再者, 所有处于相似良善的人, 即便以前从未谋面, 也能认识彼此, 就像世人认识自己的亲朋好友. 这是因为, 来世只有属灵的亲属, 血缘和友谊关系, 因而只有诸如源于爱与信的那类关系. 有时我被恩准看到这种关系, 当时我在灵里, 因而从肉体退出, 与天使相伴. 然后, 我发现其中有些天使在我看来, 似乎从小就认识; 而有些天使似乎根本不认识. 似乎从小就认识的天使都处于与我灵的状态相似的状态, 而似乎不认识的天使则处于不同的状态.
注: 在天堂, 一切亲密, 关系和联系, 以及血缘关系都来自良善, 并取决于它的一致和不同(天国的奥秘 685, 917, 1394, 2739, 3612, 3815, 4121节).
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46. 再者, 品質相似的人彼此相識, 如同世人熟知自己的鄰居和親友。天國中品質相似之人即使從未謀面, 也宛如故知。因為在心靈世界, 唯一的親友關係只是心靈上的人際關係, 因此也就是在仁與信方面的關係。
我在靈裡, 因而離開肉體與天人來往時, 時常經歷此番情景。在我看來, 有些天人仿佛是從小一起長大的玩伴, 有些人卻顯得素昧平生。前者的靈性狀態與我相仿, 後者卻迥異。
46. Further, people of similar quality all recognize each other there just the way people in this world recognize their neighbors and relatives and friends, even though they may never have seen each other before. This happens because the only relationships and kinships and friendships in the other life are spiritual ones, and are therefore matters of love and faith. 1
I have often been allowed to see this when I was in the spirit and therefore out of body and in the company of angels. Then some of them looked to me as though I had known them from infancy, while others seemed totally unfamiliar. The ones who looked as though I had known them from infancy were the ones who were in a state like that of my own spirit, while the unfamiliar ones were in dissimilar states.
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1. In heaven, all matters of proximity, family, kindred, and apparent blood relationship arise from what is good and depend on its affinities and differences: Arcana Coelestia 695 [685], 917, 1394, 2739, 3612, 3815, 4121.
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46. Again, all who are in like good, even though they have never seen one another before, recognize one another just as men in the world do their kinsmen, relatives and friends. This is because in the other life there are none but spiritual kinships, relationships and friendships, thus such as are of love and faith. 1It has been granted me to see this sometimes, when I have been in the spirit, thus withdrawn from the body and so in the company of angels. Then some of these I saw seemed as though known to me from childhood, but others as if not known at all. Those whom I seemed to have known from childhood were such as were in a state similar to that of my spirit, but those who seemed unknown were in a dissimilar state.
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1. All kinships, relationships, connections, and as it were those related by blood, in heaven, are from good, and according to its agreements and differences (Arcana Coelestia 685, 917, 1394, 2739, 3612, 3815, 4121).
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46. Again, all who are in like good, even though they have never seen each other before, know each other, just as men in the world do their kinsmen, near relations, and friends; and for the reason that in the other life there are none but spiritual kinships, relationships, and friendships, thus such as spring from love and faith. 1This it has sometimes been granted me to see, when I have been in the spirit, and thus withdrawn from the body, and in the society of angels. Some of those I then saw seemed as if I had known them from childhood, but others as if not known at all. Those whom I seemed to have known from childhood were such as were in a state similar to that of my spirit; but those who seemed unknown were in a dissimilar state.
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46. Cognoscunt etiam se omnes qui in simili bono sunt, prorsus sicut homines in mundo suos propinquos, suos affines, et suos amicos, tametsi illos nusquam prius viderunt ex causa, quia in altera vita non sunt propinquitates, affinitates, et amicitiae aliae quam spirituales, ita quae sunt amoris et fidei. 1Hoc mihi aliquoties datum est videre, quando in spiritu fui, ita abductus a corpore, et sic in consortio cum angelis: tunc quosdam ex illis vidi sicut notos ab infantia, alios vero sicut prorsus non notos; qui visi sicut noti ab infantia, fuerunt qui in simili statu cum statu spiritus mei erant qui autem non noti, in dissimili.
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