AC 5786 - the internal acts through the external

AC 5786
There is an external man, and there is an internal;
the external man is that through which the internal acts;
for the external is only an organ or instrument of the internal.
This being so,
the external must be wholly subordinate and subject to the internal;
and when it is subject,
heaven acts through the internal into the external,
and disposes it according to such things as are of heaven.


And from John 2:23-25:
Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the miraculous signs he was doing and believed in his name. But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men. He did not need man's testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man.