he taught me and said to me,
"Let your heart hold fast to my words;
keep my commandments, and live." Proverbs 4:4
You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside may also be clean. Matthew 23:26
"'Man's interior is purified only as he refrains from evils, in accordance with the commandments of the Decalogue.'
'When man's interior is purified from evils by his refraining from them and shunning them because they are sins, the internal which is above it, and which is called the spiritual internal, is opened.'
'When the spiritual internal is opened, and through it communication with heaven and conjunction with the Lord are granted, enlightenment takes place with man.'"
-Taken from, Spiritual Life and the Word of God, Emanuel Swedenborg
