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	<title>Swedenborg. The understanding of his works. Practical learning. &#187; Root of evil</title>
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		<title>&#8220;&#8216;That the devil may not seduce them and put evils into their hearts; knowing that while they are not led by the Lord, he leads and breathes in evils of every kind, such as hatreds, revenges, cunnings, deceits as a serpent breathes in poisons.&#8221; [AE 1148]</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[Catholic disposition in the New Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Criticizing others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cunning and deceit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cunning of the love of self hiding man's internal evils from the conscious mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Distinguishing anger from just indignation in oneself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feeling of one's own spiritual superiority over others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hatred, Revenge, Enmity, Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humbled love of self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innocence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internal deceit together with outward honesty, sincerity and straightforwardness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love of self in relation to those in the Church and to those outside of the church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[misuse and abuse of the Word]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Misusing the truth by turning it to one's own ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[One's ruling love being touched and threatened]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protestant disposition in the New Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resentment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Root of evil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-humiliation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sincerity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taking apparent goods and truths, in which lie interior evils, as genuine goods and truths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The love of ruling in the things of the Church appearing as a great love for the Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Those who are in the interior things of the Word and Doctrine and do not humble themselves and look to the Lord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unworthiness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>&#160; As is generally known in the Church the devil in the most general sense stands for hell. In a less general sense as when compared to Satan, the devil stands for the hell opposed to the celestial kingdom, while Satan stands for the hell opposed to the spiritual kingdom. In the abstract sense the [&#8230;]</p>
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