AC 6844 - sensuous things

AC 6844 [2]
That sensuous things, which are the externals of the natural,
are of such a nature that they cannot receive the Divine,
is because they are in things worldly, bodily, and even earthly....

Hence it is that when a man is in these sensuous things,
and is thinking from them,
he thinks no otherwise of the Divine than as he thinks about earthly things,
and if he is in evil
he thinks from these sensuous things quite against the Divine.
Therefore if when a man is thinking about such things
as are of faith and love to God, he is in good;
he is elevated from the sensuous things
which are the externals of the natural, toward interior things,
consequently from earthly and worldly things
nearer to heavenly and spiritual things.