AC 1542 - two things which prevent us from becoming celestial

AC 1542
There are two things with a person which prevent his becoming celestial,
one belongs to the understanding part of his mind,
the other to the will part.
Belonging to the understanding part
are the useless facts which he absorbs in childhood and adolescence;
belonging to the will part
are the pleasures arising out of the evil desires which he inclines to.
Both the former and the latter are what stand in the way
of him possibly attaining to celestial things.
These must first be dispersed,
and when they have been dispersed
he is able for the first time to be introduced
into the light reflected by celestial things,
and finally into celestial light itself.

[2] Because the Lord was born as any other is born
and needed to be taught as any other has to be,
He had also to learn facts;
this was represented and meant by Abram's sojourning in Egypt.
And the consideration that empty facts ultimately went away from Him
was also represented by Pharaoh's giving his men orders
to send him (Abram) away, and his wife, and everything he had.
The fact that the pleasures which belong to the will parts of the mind
and which constitute the sensory or most external person
also went away from Him is represented in this chapter
by Lot separating himself from Abram,
for Lot represents the sensory man.