Sunday, February 26, 2012

AC 2063 - being regenerated is to be conjoined with the Lord

AC 2063 [3]
When a person is being regenerated,
that is, when he is to be conjoined with the Lord,
he proceeds to the conjunction by means of truth,
that is, by means of the truths of faith;
for no one can be regenerated
except by means of the knowledges of faith,
which are the truths by means of which he proceeds to conjunction.
The Lord goes to meet these by means of good,
that is, by means of charity,
and adjusts and fits this in to the knowledges of faith, that is, to its truths;
for all truths are recipient vessels of good,
and therefore the more genuine the truths are,
and the more they are multiplied,
the more abundantly can good accept them as vessels,
reduce them to order, and finally reveal itself;
so that at last the truths do not appear,
except insofar as good shines through them.
In this way truth becomes the celestial spiritual.

As the Lord is present solely in the good which is of charity,
the person is in this way conjoined with the Lord,
and by means of good, that is, by means of charity,
is gifted with conscience,
from which he afterwards thinks what is true
and does what is right;
but this conscience is in accordance
with the truths and right things
into which the good or charity is adjusted and fitted.

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