82、因为对上帝的这种感知存在于天堂，所以，把上帝想象成人的样子，这一点被注入进每一个接受从天堂来的任何流注的人。古人是这样思想祂的，现今的人也如此，无论是在教会内还是在教会外。单纯的人把祂想象成一位闪耀着光芒的古人。但因自作聪明和邪恶的生活而拒绝天堂流注的人，他们里面的这种洞见被熄灭了。自作聪明的人熄灭了这种洞见，宁愿有一位不可见的上帝；而那些因邪恶的生活而熄灭这洞见的人则宁愿没有上帝。他们都不知道这样的洞见是存在的，因为他们没有这样的洞见。然而，正是神性的天堂本身首要地从天堂流入世人，因为世人是为天堂而生的。对上帝没有任何概念的人不能进入天堂。
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82. 对神性的这种觉知就存在于天堂中, 故以人的形式思想神的本能被植入从天堂接受流注的每个人. 古人如此思想祂, 现在的人也如此思想祂, 无论教会之内的还是教会之外的. 简单人在思维中把祂看作一位放光的古人. 但这种被植入的本能在那些因自我聪明和邪恶生活而弃绝来自天堂的流注之人里面被扼杀了. 那些因自我聪明而扼杀这种被植入的本能之人偏向一位不可见的神, 而那些因邪恶生活而抑杀它的人则偏向没有神. 这些人没有意识到这种被植入的本能已被赐下, 因为他们没有这种本能. 然而, 天上的神性首先从天堂流入世人, 因为世人是为天堂而生的; 若对神性没有一个概念, 没有人能进入天堂.
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82. 天人既以上帝為人的形相, 那麼凡接收天國之流注的人自然也本能地將主想像為人的模樣。遠古之人便是如此, 甚至教會內外的某些現代人也是如此。心地單純的人將其想像為一位榮光四射的古者。
只是對於那些拒絕天國之流的人, 這種本能已經因自詡聰明或生活敗壞而給壓抑了。自詡聰明的人情願相信一位不可見之上帝, 而生活敗壞的人則寧願沒有上帝。由於失了這種本能, 他們甚至不知其存在, 儘管它本是從天流進人心的天國之性。此性流入人心的原因在於人人為進天國而生, 沒有哪個能不帶有任何上帝觀而進入天國。
82. Since this is how the Divine Being is perceived in the heavens, it is instinctive in everyone who accepts any inflow from heaven to think of the Lord in a human guise. The ancients did so and even modern people do, both outside and inside the church. Simple people see him in thought as an ancient one, in glory.
But this instinct has been stifled by all the people who have distanced themselves from the heavenly inflow by pride in their own intelligence and by evil lives. The ones who have stifled it by pride in their intelligence prefer an invisible God, while the ones who have done so by evil lives prefer no God at all. Because this instinct is not in them, neither type knows that it even exists, although this is the essential heavenly divine nature that flows into us first and foremost from heaven because we are born for heaven; and no one enters heaven without some concept of the Divine Being.
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82. Such being the perception of the Divine in the heavens, there is implanted in every man who receives any influx from heaven the faculty to think of God in a human shape. The ancients thus thought of Him, and the people of to-day do so also, both within and outside the Church. The simple see Him in thought as the Ancient One in radiance. But this implanted faculty has been extinguished in all those who, by their self- intelligence and by a life of evil, have driven away the influx from heaven. Those who have extinguished this implanted faculty by self-intelligence desire an invisible God, while those who have extinguished it by a life of evil desire no God. Neither of these are aware that such an implanted faculty is given, because it does not operate with them. Yet it is the very heavenly Divine which primarily inflows from heaven into man, because man has been born for heaven, and no one comes into heaven without an idea of the Divine.
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82. Because such a perception of the Divine exists in the heavens, to think of God as in a human form is implanted in every man who receives any influx from heaven. Thus did the ancients think of Him; and thus do the moderns think of Him both outside of the church and within it. The simple see Him in thought as the Ancient One in shining light. But this insight has been extinguished in all those that by self-intelligence and by a life of evil have rejected influx from heaven. Those that have extinguished it by self-intelligence prefer an invisible God; while those that have extinguished it by a life of evil prefer no God. Neither of these are aware that such an insight exists, because they do not have it; and yet it is the Divine heavenly itself that primarily flows into man out of heaven, because man is born for heaven, and no one without a conception of a Divine can enter heaven.
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82. Quia talis perceptio de Divino est in caelis, ideo insitum est cuivis homini, qui aliquem influxum e caelo recipit, de Deo sub Humana specie cogitare hoc fecerunt antiqui hoc etiam faciunt hodierni, tam extra quam intra ecclesiam simplices Ipsum cogitatione vident sicut Antiquum in candore. Sed insitum hoc exstinxerunt omnes illi, qui removerunt influxum e caelo per propriam intelligentiam, et per vitam mali: qui per propriam intelligentiam exstinxerunt, illi Deum invisibilem volunt 1qui autem per vitam mali, nullum Deum: illi et hi non sciunt quod tale insitum detur, quia non apud illos, cum tamen hoc ipsum Divinum caeleste est, quod primario influit e caelo apud hominem, quia homo natus est ad caelum, et in caelum nemo venit absque idea Divini.
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