AC 4247 - the circle

AC 4247 [2, 3]
. . . in the beginning of regeneration
a person is not as yet in knowledges.
At that time, however, as good is continually flowing in,
it produces the affection of truth;
which is from no other source
than the continual endeavor of Divine good to flow in.
From this it is evident
that even at that time good is in the first place,
and acts the principal part,
although it appears as if it were truth that did this.
But when a person is being regenerated
(which takes place in adult age when he is in knowledges),
good then manifests itself;
for the person is not then
so much in the affection of knowing truth,
as in the affection of doing it.
Heretofore truth had been in his understanding,
but now it is in his will;
and when it is in the will,
it is in the person;
for the will constitutes the person himself.
Such is the constant circle in a person
that everything of knowledge is insinuated through
the sight or through the hearing into the thought,
and from this into the will,
and from the will through the thought into act.

. . . first of all, the truths of faith
are insinuated through the hearing or through the sight,
and are then stored up in the memory;
from which they are successively elevated into knowledge,
and at last flow into the will,
and when in this
they proceed from there through thought into act;
and if they cannot go into act,
they are in endeavor, which is itself an internal act,
and whenever there is an opportunity
this becomes an external act.
Be it known, however, that while there is this circle,
nevertheless it is good which produces the circle;
for the life which is from the Lord
does not flow in except into good, thus through good,
and this from the inmosts.
That the life which flows in through the inmosts
produces this circle, may be seen by everyone,
for without life nothing is produced;
and as the life which is from the Lord
does not flow in except into good and through good,
it follows that good is that which produces;
and that it flows into truths,
and appropriates them to itself,
insofar as the person is in the knowledges of truth,
and is at the same time desirous to receive them.