AC 3158
. . . the initiation and conjunction of good and truth
are spiritual betrothal and spiritual marriage.
In each there is required a free state of deliberation.
That this is necessary in betrothal and marriage,
is well known;
but that it is required
in the initiation and conjunction of good and truth,
is not so well known,
because it is not apparent to the natural person,
and because such initiation and conjunction
are among the things that are accomplished
without a person's reflecting upon them;
nevertheless during every moment
when a person is being reformed and regenerated,
it comes to pass that he is in a state of freedom
when truth is being conjoined with good.
. . . truth, which is of faith,
never becomes a person's as his
until it has been received by the will, that is,
until it has been initiated and conjoined with the good there;
and that this cannot be effected except in a free state.
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