REACTION.—In all conjunction by love there must be action, reception, and reaction, [293].
READ, to.—While man reads the Word, and collects truths out of it, the Lord adjoins good, [128]; but this takes place interiorly with those only who read the Word to the end that they may become wise, [128].
REAL.—Love and wisdom are collected together in use, and therein become one principle, which is called real, [183].
REASON, human, is such that it understands truths from the light thereof, as though was not heretofore distinguished them, [490].
REASONERS.—They are named such who never conclude any thing, and make whatever they hear a matter of argument and dispute whether it be so, with perpetual contradiction, [232]. What their fate is in the other life, [232].
REASONINGS, the, of the generality commence merely from effects, and from effects proceed to some consequences thence resulting, and do not commence from causes, and from causes proceed analytically to effects, [385]. Truth does not admit of reasonings, [481]. They favor the delights of the flesh against those of the spirit, [481].
RECEPTION is according to religion, [352]. Without conjunction there is no reception, [341]. See [Reaction].
RECIPIENT.—Man is a recipient of God, and consequently a recipient of love and wisdom from Him, [132]. A recipient becomes an image of God according to reception, [132].
RECIPROCAL principle, the, of conjunction with God, is, that a man should love God, and relish the things which are of God, as from himself, and yet believe that they are of God, [132], [122]. Without such a reciprocal principle conjunction is impossible, [132].