AE 846 - enlightened perception of the Word's truth

AE 846 [2,4]
. . . in order that a person
may see and perceive from enlightenment
the genuine truths of the Word,
these three degrees of understanding,
the natural, the rational, and the spiritual,
must be together;
for the natural understanding,
which is the lowest,
cannot be enlightened by its own lumen,
but must be enlightened by the light of the rational person,
which is intermediate,
and this by spiritual light;
for the spiritual understanding is in the light of heaven and sees by it,
and the rational is intermediate between the spiritual and the natural,
and receives spiritual light and transmits it to the natural and enlightens it.

From this it can be concluded
that the understanding of the truths of the church
means the understanding of them that is enlightened by the light of heaven,
thus by the Lord.
The person who is in that enlightenment
is able to see the truths of the church rationally in this world,
and spiritually after death.
But to enter into church matters,
which are interiorly spiritual and celestial,
from natural lumen separated from spiritual light,
which is the light of heaven from the Lord,
is to proceed by an inverse order,
since what is natural cannot enter into what is spiritual,
but what is spiritual can enter into what is natural.