AC 8690 - the first state of regeneration

AC 8690
The first state, in which a person is before regeneration,
is here treated of,
which is that he does good from obedience,
and not yet from affection;
but this good is the truth which he does,
because it is done only from command,
thus as yet from compulsion, but not from freedom.
He does good from freedom when he does it from affection;
for everything that flows from the affection which is of love is free.
When a person is in the former state,
then the Lord flows in and leads immediately;
but the immediate influx of the Lord does not come to perception,
because it is into the inmosts of the man;
whereas the influx of the Lord
which is immediate and at the same time mediate,
does come to perception,
and gives affection,
for it is not only into man's inmosts,
but also into his mediates and outmosts.