AC 6567 - the setting up again of a spiritual church

AC 6567
And his brethren also went and fell down before him,
and said, Behold we are thy servants.
(Genesis 50:18)

In this chapter is described the setting up again of a spiritual church, and in this passage the submission of the things in the natural under the internal; of which submission be it known that the spiritual church cannot possibly be instituted with any one, unless the things that belong to the natural or external person have been made submissive to the spiritual or internal person.

So long as the mere truth which is of faith predominates with a person, and not the good which is of charity, so long the natural or external person has not been made submissive to the spiritual or internal person. But as soon as good as the dominion, the natural or external person submits himself, and then the person becomes a spiritual church.

That such is the case is known from the fact that the person does from affection what the truth teaches, and that he does not act contrary to this affection, however the natural desires it. The very affection and consequent reason have the dominion, and subdue in the natural the delights of the love of self and of the world, as also the fallacies which had filled the memory-knowledges there; and at last so completely that this subjugation comes to be among the person's pleasures; and then the natural is at rest, and afterward is in agreement; and when it is in agreement, it then partakes of the pleasantness of the internal. From all this it may be known what is meant by the submission of the things in the natural under the internal, which is signified by "his brethren went and fell down before him, and said, Behold we are thy servants."