AC 3986 - variety, harmony and yielding to the Lord

AC 3986 [2,3,4]
The goods that are in people,
as well within the church as without it,
are absolutely various,
so various that the good of one person
is never precisely like that of another.
The varieties come forth
from the truths with which the goods are conjoined;
for all good has its quality from truths,
and truths have their essential from goods.
Varieties come forth also
from the affections of everyone's love;
which are enrooted in and appropriated to a person by his life.
Even in the person who is within the church
there are few genuine truths,
and still fewer in the person who is without the church;
so that the affections of genuine truth are rare among people. 

Nevertheless they who are in the good of life,
that is, who live in love to the Lord
and in charity toward the neighbor, are saved.
That these can be saved is because
the Divine of the Lord is in the good of love to God
and in the good of charity toward the neighbor;
and where the Divine is within,
there all things are disposed into order,
so that they can be conjoined with the genuine goods
and genuine truths that are in the heavens.
. . . Everyone is composed
of various things harmoniously conjoined;
and the case is the same
with the goods and truths in the spiritual world,
which, although various . . . nevertheless make a one
from the Divine through love and charity.
For love and charity are spiritual conjunction;
and their variety is heavenly harmony,
which makes such concord
that they are a one in the Divine,
that is, in the Lord.

Moreover the good of love to God
and the good of charity toward the neighbor,
however various may be the truths
and the affections of truth,
are nevertheless receptive of genuine truth and good;
for they are so to speak not hard and resisting,
but are as it were soft and yielding,
suffering themselves to be led by the Lord,
and thus to be bent to good,
and through good to Him.
Very different is the case with those
who are in the love of self and of the world.
These do not suffer themselves
to be led and bent by the Lord and to the Lord,
but resist stiffly, for they desire to lead themselves;
and this is still more the case
when they are in principles of falsity
that have been confirmed.
So long as they are of this character
they do not admit the Divine.