AC 2657 - Cast out this handmaid and her son. (Genesis 21:10)

AC 2657
[2] With every person who is being regenerated there are two rationals,
one before regeneration, the other after regeneration.
The first, which is before regeneration,
is procured through the experience of the senses,
by reflections upon things of civic life and of moral life,
and by means of the sciences
and the reasonings derived from them and by means of them,
also by means of the knowledges of spiritual things
from the doctrine of faith or from the Word.
But these go no further at that time
than a little above the ideas of the corporeal memory,
which comparatively are quite material . . .

[3] But the rational after regeneration
is formed by the Lord through the affections of spiritual truth and good,
which affections are implanted by the Lord in a wonderful manner
in the truths of the former rational;
and those things in it which are in agreement
and which favor are thus vivified;
but the rest are separated from it as of no use . . ..
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[5] But as examples aid conviction,
take as an example that which is a person's own before regeneration,
and that which is his own after it.
From the first rational,
which he has procured to himself by the means described above,
the person believes that he thinks truth and does good from himself,
and thus from what is his own.
This first rational cannot apprehend otherwise,
even if it has been instructed
that all the good of love and all the truth of faith are from the Lord.
But when a person is being regenerated,
which takes place in adult age,
then from the other rational with which he is gifted by the Lord
he begins to think that the good and truth are not from himself,
or from what is his own,
but from the Lord
(but that nevertheless he does good and thinks truth as from himself . . .).
The more he is then confirmed in this,
the more is he led into the light of truth respecting these things,
till at last he believes that all good and all truth are from the Lord.
The Own that belongs to the former rational is then successively separated,
and the persoan is gifted by the Lord with a heavenly Own,
which becomes that of his new rational.

[7] But be it known that although a person is being regenerated,
still each and all things of the first rational remain with him,
and are merely separated from the second rational,
and this in a most wonderful manner by the Lord.
But the Lord wholly banished His first rational,
so that nothing of it remained;
for what is merely human cannot be together with the Divine.
So He was no longer the son of Mary,
but was Jehovah as to each essence.