AC 6766 - perspective

AC 6766 [2]
. . . in the internal sense
the subject here is the development of Divine Truth
as it exists with the person who is being regenerated.
Its development is such
that at first the person can distinguish falsity from truth,
for the truth he has
enables him to see falsity
since it is the opposite of the truth.
But he cannot at that early stage
settle between one truth of faith and another
within the Church.
To be able to do this
he must make further advances;
for a person's enlightenment increases gradually.
This is clearly recognizable
from those who are in adolescent years
and at the start of manhood.
They think
that the teachings of their Church are the absolute truth,
and these they use to distinguish falsities.
But they are not yet able to reconcile
matters of faith within the Church
when these disagree with one another;
that ability comes in a sequence of stages.
This being so,
the person to whom that ability can be given
must also be someone
who is rather more mature in years,
someone in whom
the more internal levels of the understanding
have been enlightened.