AC 9294 - the three feasts & the harvest (Exodus23:14-16)

AC 9294 [2]
. . by regeneration a person is
liberated from hell and introduced into heaven.
And therefore the first feast,
which was called "the feast of unleavened things,"
signifies purification from falsities;
consequently this second feast
("the feast of the harvest of the firstfruits of thy works")
signifies the implantation of truth in good;
and the third feast,
("the feast of ingathering")
the implantation of good.

For during man's regeneration he is first purified from the falsities
which spring from the evil of the loves of self and of the world,
which is effected by his receiving instruction
concerning evil, hell, and damnation,
and also concerning good, heaven, and eternal happiness;
and by his thus suffering himself to be withheld
from doing, willing, and thinking evils.
When the soil has been thus prepared, then the truths of faith are sown,
for before this they are not received.
But the truths which are sown must be implanted in good,
because they have no soil anywhere else,
nor can they strike root anywhere else.
They are implanted in good
when the man wills the truth, loves it, and does it.
This state of regeneration, or of liberation from damnation,
is signified by this feast, which is called
"the feast of the harvest of the first fruits of thy works;"
for "harvest" signifies truths producing good.
[3] When truths have been implanted in good,
the man is no longer led of the Lord by means of truths,
but by means of good,
which is effected when he wills good and does good
from the affection of love, that is, from charity.
This state of regeneration, or of liberation from damnation,
is signified by the third feast, which is called "the feast of ingathering."