AC 8604 - "looking upward to the Lord"

AC 8604 [3 - 4]
This Divine truth which is from the Lord flows into the good with a person,
and by means of it draws the person to itself;
for the life which is from the Lord has a power of attracting,
because it is from love,
since all love has in it this power,
inasmuch as it wills to be conjoined,
so as to be a one.
Then therefore a person is in good,
and from good in truth,
he is drawn by the Lord,
and is conjoined with Him.
This is meant by "looking upward to the Lord."
But when a person is not in good,
thus not in truth from good,
then too he is drawn by the Lord,
but cannot be elevated,
because evils and the derivative falsities turn themselves away.
This is meant by "looking downward," or "to self and the world."

That the Lord draws man to Himself, the Lord Himself teaches in John:

I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Myself (John 12:32).

From all this it can now be seen how it is to be understood
that when the faith looked toward the Lord,
the fighting truth conquered,
and that when the faith looked downward from the Lord to self and the world,
the falsity conquered,
as is signified by Israel prevailing when Moses held up his hand,
and by Amalek prevailing when he let down his hand.