AC 3336 - priority and superiority and our regeneration

AC 3336 [2-3]
It is easy to see that nothing can possibly enter
into a person's memory and remain there,
unless there is a certain affection or love which introduces it.
If there is no affection, or what is the same, no love,
there will be no observation.
It is this affection, or love,
with which the thing that enters connects itself,
and being connected remains;
as is evident from the fact that
when a similar affection or love returns,
the thing itself recurs . . . and this in a series.
From this comes a person's thought;
and from this thought his speech.
. . . This is the teaching of experience,
and on reflection everyone may be confirmed in it.

The doctrinal things of truth enter in like manner into the memory;
and the things that at first introduce them
are affections of various loves . . ..
Genuine affection, which is of the good of charity,
is not then observed; but still it is present;
and so far as it can be present,
it is joined together by the Lord to the doctrinal things of truth . . ..
When therefore the time comes that the person can be regenerated,
the Lord inspires the affection of good,
and through this excites the things
which have been joined together by Him to this affection,
which things are called in the Word "remains;"
and then by means of this affection
(that is, of the affection of good),
by successive steps the Lord removes the affections of other loves,
consequently also the things that have been connected with them.
And thus the affection of good, 
or what is the same, the good of life,
begins to have the dominion.
It indeed had the dominion before,
but this could not appear to the person;
for insofar as a person is in the love of self and of the world,
the good which is of genuine love does not appear.
From this it may now be seen
what is signified in the internal sense by the things historically
related concerning Esau and Jacob.