AC 9845
For the person who is being generated anew by the Lord has two states;
the first is a state of truth,
and the second is a state of good.
So long as the person is in the first state,
he is led by means of truths to good;
but when he is in the second state,
he is led by means of good.
This latter state is the state of heaven with the person,
for he is not in heaven until he is in good.
AC 9846
. . . the good of love works in a person while he is being regenerated,
and disposes the truths with him into order;
and afterward, when he has been regenerated,
it keeps them in their order.
For truths are created according to the whole likeness of good,
and according to its every command,
thus according to everything of love; for good is of love.
That this is so, is evident from the fact
that a person acknowledges as truths the things that he loves,
and that in this way he apprehends and acknowledges truths
according to his love.
It is from this that truths constitute the form of good.
From this it can be known how the Lord leads a person
by means of the truths of faith, that is, by means of faith;
namely, that He leads him by means of the good of love that is in him;
and further, how the Lord also directs a person mediately through heaven;
for a regenerated person is a heaven in a little image;
wherefore, as the Lord directs heaven,
He also together with it directs such a person.
AC 9849
. . . when a person turns away from the Lord,
as is the case when he does evil,
then, because the Lord is at his back,
it appears to him as if the Lord does not see him,
does not hear him,
and does not know him,
and also does not remember him;
when yet this is with the person,
and therefore from the appearance it is so said in the Word.
Very different is it
when a person turns toward the Lord,
as is the case when he acts well.
Friday, November 28, 2008
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