AC 6207 - conscience is the plane into which the angels flow

AC 6207
Conscience is twofold, interior and exterior.
Interior conscience is of spiritual good and truth;
exterior conscience is of justice and equity.

... they who enjoy exterior conscience are saved in the other life;
for they are of such a character
that if they act contrary to what is good and true,
or contrary to what is just and equitable,
they are inwardly distressed and tormented;
not because by so doing
they suffer loss of honor, of gain, or of reputation;
but because they have acted contrary to good and truth,
or to justice and equity.

But where these consciences do not exist,
there is something else of a very low nature
which sometimes counterfeits conscience,
and which leads men to do what is true and good,
and what is just and equitable,
not from the love of these,
but for the sake of self and their own honor and advantage.
These persons also are distressed and tormented
when adverse things befall them.
But this conscience is no conscience,
because it belongs to the love of self and of the world,
and there is nothing in it which regards the love of God and of the neighbor;
and therefore in the other life it does not show itself.

... conscience is the plane into which the angels flow,
and indeed into the affections of good and truth,
and of justice and equity therein;
and that in this way they hold the man bound,
yet still in freedom.