AC 9300 - correspondences are as mirrors

AC 9300 [3]
. . . an idea can be formed
about truths which are of the understanding
and the good which is of the will,
is because all things that belong to faith and love
carry with them an idea from such things as the person knows,
for without an idea from what he knows and feels in himself
a person cannot think;
and a person thinks rightly
even about the things of faith and love,
when he thinks of them from correspondences,
for correspondences are natural truths,
in which as in mirrors,
spiritual truths are represented.
Wherefore, so far as the ideas of thought
concerning things spiritual are formed independently of correspondences,
so far they are formed either from the fallacies of the senses,
or from what is inconsistent with such things.
The kind of ideas a person has about what belongs to faith and love,
is very manifest in the other life, for there ideas are clearly perceived.