AC 10057 - the circle of life

AC 10057 [3-5]
. . . the circle of the regeneration of a person
is like the circle of his life in general;
and that it is in like manner instituted in the will
by means of an influx out of heaven from the Lord.

[4] Hence also it is plain that there are two states
in the person who is being regenerated,
the first when the truths of faith are being implanted
and conjoined with the good of charity,
the second when he speaks from the good of charity
by means of the truths of faith,
and acts according to these;
thus that the first state
is from the world through the natural man into the spiritual,
thus into heaven;
and the second
is from heaven through the spiritual man into the natural,
thus into the world.
As said above, the spiritual or internal man is in heaven,
and the natural or external man is in the world.
This circle is the circle of the regeneration of a person,
and consequently is the circle of his spiritual life.

[5] From what has been said,
some idea may be formed of the glorification of the Lord's Human;
for as the Lord glorified His Human, so He regenerates a person,
and therefore, as already often said,
the regeneration of a person is an image of the glorification of the Lord.
From this it is evident that the first state of His glorification
was to make His Human Divine truth,
and to unite it with the Divine good that was in Him;
and that the second state
was to act from Divine good through Divine truth.
For heaven and the church are founded through the Divine truth
that proceeds from the Lord's Divine good;
and through this are regenerated all who are in the church.