AE 1138, 1139 - union with the Lord

AE 1138 [3]
. . . without freedom
a person cannot feel and perceive
that life is as if it were in him;
it is from freedom
that he feels this and perceives this . . ..

[6] . . . to the person who acknowledges
that all things of his life are from the Lord,
the Lord gives the delight and blessedness of His love,
so far as the person acknowledges this
and performs uses.
Thus when a person
by acknowledgment and by faith from love,
as if from himself,
ascribes to the Lord all things of his life,
the Lord in turn ascribes to the person the good of His life,
which carries with it every happiness and every blessedness,
and also enables him
to feel and perceive interiorly and exquisitely
this good to be in himself
as if it were his own,
and the more exquisitely in proportion
as the person from the heart
wills that which he acknowledges by faith.
The perception is then reciprocal,
for the perception
that He is in a person and a person is in Him
is grateful to the Lord,
and the perception
that he is in the Lord and the Lord in him
is gratifying to a person.
Such is the union of the Lord with a person
and of a person with the Lord
by means of love.

AE 1139 [2]
A person has a feeling and perception that life is in him,
because the life of the Lord is in him
as the light and heat of the sun are in a subject.