if the higher

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if the higher

That Man, if the higher Degree with him,which is the spiritual, be not opened, becomes naturaland sensual.It jimmy choo uggs was shown above, that there are three degrees of the human mind, which are called natural, spiritual, and heavenly celestial, and that these degrees with him may be successively opened: it was also shown, that the natural degree is first opened, and afterwards, if he shuns evils as sins, and looks to the Lord, the spiritual degree is opened, and at length the heavenly celestial. Since these degrees are opened successively according to the life of man, it follows, that the two higher degrees may even not be opened, and that man then remains in the natural degree, which is the ultimate. It is also known in the world, that there is a natural man and a spiritual man, or an external man and an internal man; but it is not known, that the natural man becomes spiritual by the opening of any higher degree with him, and that the opening is effected by a spiritual life, which is a life according to the divine precepts ; and that without a life according to them, man remains natural.There are three kinds of natural men: one kind is of those, who know nothing of the divine precepts ; the second, of those who know that there are such precepts, but think nothing of a life according to them; and the third, of those who despise and deny them. As concerns the first kind, which is of those who know nothing of the divine precepts, they cannot but remain natural, because they cannot be taught jimmy choo from themselves. Every man is taught concerning the divine precepts by others, who know them from religion, and not by immediate revelations; on which subject, see the Doctrine jimmy choo shoes of the New Jerusalem concerning the Sacred Scripture.