SS 83 - the marriage of good and truth in a person

SS 83
With every person there are two faculties of life,
called the understanding and the will.
The understanding is the receptacle of truth and the derivative wisdom,
and the will is the receptacle of good and the derivative love.
For a person to be a person of the church
these two must make a one,
and this they do
when the person forms his understanding from genuine truths,
which to all appearance is done as by himself;
and when his will is infilled with the good of love,
which is done by the Lord.
From this the person has a life of truth and a life of good,
a life of truth in the understanding from the will,
and a life of good in the will through the understanding.
This is the marriage of truth and good in a person,
and also the marriage of the Lord and the church in him.