AC 1914 - intellectual truth, conscience, perception

AC 1914
. . . the Lord thought from intellectual truth . . .
and because this truth is above the rational,
it could perceive and see the quality of this rational,
namely, that it held that truth in low esteem (contempt).

That the Lord could perceive and see from the interior man
what the quality of the new rational in Himself was,
may be seen from the fact
that the interior can perceive what takes place in the exterior,
or what is the same, that the higher can see what is in the lower;
but not the reverse.
Moreover they who have conscience can do this
and are accustomed to do it,
for when anything contrary to the truth of conscience
flows into the thought,
or into the endeavor of the will,
they not only perceive it,
but also find fault with it;
and it even grieves them to be of such a character.
Those who have perception can do this even more,
as perception is more interior in the rational.
What then could not the Lord do,
who had Divine celestial perception,
and thought from the affection of intellectual truth,
which is above the rational!
Therefore He could not but be indignant,
knowing that nothing of evil and falsity was from Himself,
and that from the affection of truth
He took the greatest pains that His rational should be pure.
This shows that the Lord did not lightly esteem intellectual truth,
but that He perceived the first rational in Himself to be thinking lightly of it.

The fathers of the Most Ancient Church who had perception,
thought from the interior rational.
The fathers of the Ancient Church,
who had not perception but conscience,
thought from the exterior or natural rational.
But all who are without conscience
do not think at all from the rational,
since they do not have the rational,
although they appear to have it;
but they think from the sensuous and corporeal natural.