cord it is so by blind obedience.
If, however, on coming into the exercise of his rationality and freedom,
which one does gradually in growing up to youth and manhood, a man
acknowledges truths and lives by them only later to deny them, he does
mingle the holy with the profane and (as was said above) from being human
becomes a monster. On the other hand, if a man is in evil after attaining
rationality and freedom, that is, after becoming his own master, even in
his early manhood, but later acknowledges truths of faith and lives by
them and remains in them also to the close of life, he does not commingle
the holy and the profane. The Lord then severs the evils of his earlier
life from the good of his later life, as is done with all who repent. Of
this more will be said in what follows.

229. (iii) _There are many kinds of profanation of what is holy, but this
kind is the worst of all._ In the widest sense by profanation all impiety
is meant, and by profaners, therefore, all the impious who at heart deny
God, the holiness of the Word, and consequently the spiritual things of
the church which are essentially holy, and who also speak of them
impiously. We are not now treating of such profaners but of those who
profess God, uphold the holiness of the Word, and acknowledge the
spiritual things of the church (yet most persons do so with the lips
only). These commit profanation for the reason that holiness from the
Word is in them and with them, and this which is in them, part of their
understanding and will, they profane. But in the impious who deny the
Divine and divine things, there is nothing holy which they can profane;
they are profaners, of course, but still not profane as the others are.

230. The profanation of what is holy is meant in the second precept of
the Decalog, "You shall not profane the name of your God," and that it
ought not to be profaned is meant in the Lord's Prayer by "Hallowed be
Thy name." Hardly anyone in Christendom understands what is meant by
God's name. The reason for this is that in the spiritual world names are
not what they are in this world; everyone has a name in accord with the
character of his love and wisdom. As soon as he enters a society or into
fellowship with others he is named according to his character. This can
be done in spiritual language, which is such that it can give a name to
everything, for each letter in the alphabet signifies some one thing, and
the several letters combine