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and that they form a system and describe how a person goes through a
spiritual journey toward better spiritual states.
We also get detailed descriptions of the spiritual world. We can
understand that there is a heaven for those who have chosen to follow
the Lord’s commandments, and that there is a hell for those who have
opposed the principles of charity and hated God.
We can understand that marriage is between one man and one woman,
and that there is an internal bond that is the real marriage, and that
that union never dissolves if the bond is real: “When the partners in
marriages on earth tenderly love each other, they think of their covenant
as being eternal and have no thought whatever concerning its end by
death.” (Conjugial Love 216:4)
The more knowledge we get about the other dimension, the deeper
our faith will be, and the more free we can be in relation to the limited
scope of this world that only our external eye can see. No matter which
examples we choose, the principle is that ”thought from the eye closes
the understanding, but thought from the understanding opens the eye.”
(Divine Love and Wisdom 46)
“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your
whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body
will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness,
how great is that darkness!” (Matthew 6:22,23)
A “good eye” means to think and dis