AC 1902
If people were not imbued (steeped in) with hereditary evil,
the rational would then be born immediately,
from the marriage of the celestial things of the internal person with its spiritual things,
and the faculty of knowing would be born through the rational,
so that on coming into the world
a person would at once have in himself all the faculty of reason and of knowing,
for this would be in accordance with the order of influx . . ..