AC 7836
... "the truth of good,"
... by this is meant the truth which is from good.
For when they who are of the spiritual church are being regenerated,
they are introduced to the good of charity
by means of the truth of faith;
but when they have been introduced to the good which is of charity,
the truths which are afterward born
are called the "truths of good."
AC 7840
In every good there must be innocence that it may be good;
without innocence good is as if without its soul.
The reason is
that the Lord flows in by means of innocence,
and by means of it
enlivens the good with those who are being regenerated.
The good which innocence enlivens is internal and external;
internal good is with those who are called men of the internal church;
but external good is with those who are men of the external church.
Men (people) of the internal church
are they who have qualified their good by means of exterior truths,
such as are those of the literal sense of the Word.
People of the internal church
are they who do what is good to the neighbor from the affection of charity;
but people of the external church are they who do it from obedience.
Every person while being regenerated
first becomes a person of the external church,
and afterward a person of the internal church.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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