confession of His Divine, and worship of Him from good of love.
(A.E., n. 966.)

V. The Fifth Commandment

The fifth commandment is, "Thou shalt not steal." By "thefts" both open
thefts and those not open are meant, such as unlawful usury and gains,
which are effected by fraud and craft under various pretenses to make
them appear lawful, or so done clandestinely as not to appear at all.
Such gains are commonly made by higher and lower managers of the goods
of others, by merchants, also by judges who sell judgments and thus make
justice purchasable. These and many other things are thefts that must
be abstained from and shunned, and finally renounced as sins against
God, because they are against the Divine laws that are in the Word and
against this law, which is one among the fundamental laws of all
religions in the whole globe. For these ten commandments are
universals, given to the end that in living from these a man may live
from religion, since by a life from religion man is conjoined with
heaven, while a life according to these from obedience to civil and
moral law conjoins man with the world and not with heaven, and to be
conjoined with the world and not with heaven is to conjoined with hell.
(A.E., n. 967.)

Man is so created as to be an image of heaven and an image of the world,
for he is a microcosm. He is born of his parents an image of the world,
and he is born again to be an image of heaven. To be born again is to
be regenerated; and man is regenerated by the Lord by means of truths
from the Word and a life according to them. Man is an image of the
world in respect to his natural mind, and he is an image of heaven in
respect to his spiritual mind. The natural mind, which is the world, is
beneath; and the spiritual mind, which is heaven, is above. The natural
mind is full of all kinds of evil, such as thefts, adulteries, murders,
false witnesses, covetousnesses, and even blasphemies and profanations
respecting God. These evils and many others have their seat in that
mind, for the loves of them are there, and thus the delights of
thinking, willing, and doing them.

These things are inborn in that mind from parents, for man is born and
grows up into the things that are in that mind, and is restrained only
by the bonds of civil law and by the bonds of moral life from doing
them, and from thus manifesting the tendencies of his depraved will.
Who cannot see that the Lord cannot flow in out of heaven int