EVERYDAY BLESSINGS

  { PT.  1 } - In the world man is wont [ accustomed ], for the world's sake and to gain reputation, to speak and act otherwise than as he thinks and wills from his life. This is why it has been said that there can be a profanation that is inner and not at the same time outer. That there can be also a kind of profanation that is outer and not at the same time inner is possible from the style of the Word, which is not at all the style of the Word, which is not at all the style of the world, and for this reason it may be to some extent despised from an ignorance of its interior sanctity. ( A.E., n. 962 ). He who abstains from profaning the name of God, that is, the holiness of the Word, be contempt, rejection, or any blasphemy, has religion; and such as his abstinence is such is his religion except from revelation, and with us revelation is the Word. Abstinence from profaning the holiness of the Word must be from the heart, and not merely from the mouth. Those who abstain from t...

  { PT.  32 } - There are two things by which heaven is closed to the men of the church. One is a denial of the Lord's Divine, and the other is a denial of the holiness of the Word; and for this reason, that the Lord's Divine is the all of heaven; and Divine truth, which is the Word in the spiritual sense, is what makes heaven; which makes clear that he who denies the one or the other denies that which is the all of heaven and from which heaven is and exists, and thus deprives himself of communication and consequent conjunction with heaven. To profane the Word is the same as blaspheming the Holy Spirit, which is not forgiven to anyone, consequently it is said in this commandment that he who profanes the name of God shall not be left unpunished. ( A.E., n. 960 ). As Divine truth or the Word is meant by the name of God, and the profanation of it means a denial of its holiness, and thus contempt, rejection, and blasphemy, it follows that the name of God is interiorly profaned by ...

  { PT.  31 } - He is called Jehovah, Jehovah of Hosts, Lord, Lord Jehovah, God, Messiah ( or Christ ), Jesus, Saviour, Redeemer, Creator, Former, Maker, King, and the Holy One of Israel, the Rock and the Stone of Israel, Shiloh, Almighty, David, Prophet, Son of Man, and so on. All these names are names of the one God, who is the Lord; and yet where they occur in the Word they signify some universal Divine attribute or quality distinct from other Divine attributes or qualities. So, too, where He is called Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three are not meant, but one God; that is, there are not three Divines, but one; and this trine which is one is the Lord. Since each name signifies some distinct attribute or quality, to profane the name of God does not mean to profane His name itself but His quality. Name signifies quality for the reason that in heaven everyone is named according to his quality of God or the Lord is everything that is from Him by which He is worshipped. For this...