AC 6451, 6454 - the process

AC 6451 [2,3]
In person there is what is inmost,
there are interior things under the inmost,
and there are exterior things.
All these are most exactly distinct;
they succeed in order,
thus from the inmost down to the outermost;
according to the order in which they succeed,
they also flow in;
so it is that life flows
through the inmost into the interiors,
and through the interiors into the exteriors,
thus according to the order in which they succeed;
and it does not rest except in the ultimate of order,
where it stops.

[3] As all the interiors are together in the ultimate,
therefore the appearance is
as if life were in the ultimate,
that is, in the body;
when yet it is in the interiors,
nor yet there,
but in the highest,
that is, in the Lord,
from whom is the all of life.

AC 6454
Whatever is in the natural,
and especially what is in the exterior natural,
is obscure in comparison
with what is in the interior natural,
and still more so in comparison
with what is in the rational.
But this obscurity becomes clear in two ways;
first, if the exteriors
are brought into compliance with the interiors,
and thus into correspondence;
secondly, if the person can be elevated
from the exterior
to the interior things,
and thus to see the exterior things
from what is interior.
This latter way is possible
with those who are in the internal of the church,
and the former
with those who are in its external;
but neither the one nor the other is obtained
except through regeneration from the Lord.
From this it is plain what is meant
by the obscurity being capable of becoming clear.
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