"I will come into Thy house in the multitude of Thy mercy;
In Thy fear will I worship toward Thy holy temple."
--_Psalm_, V, 7
One should not omit the practice of external worship. Things inward
are excited by external worship; and outward things are kept in
holiness by external worship, so that things inward can flow in.
Moreover, a man is imbued in this way with knowledge, and prepared to
receive celestial things, so as to be endowed with states of holiness,
though he is unaware of it. These states of holiness the Lord
preserves to him for the use of eternal life; for in the other life
all one's states of life recur.
--_Arcana Coelestia, n._ 1618