AC 7757
The conjunction
of the good of charity with the truth of faith
is effected in the interiors of a person.
The good itself which flows in from the Lord
adopts truth there,
and appropriates it to itself,
and thereby causes the good with the person to be good,
and the truth to be truth;
or the charity to be charity,
and the faith to be faith.
Without this conjunction
charity is not charity,
but only natural goodness;
neither is faith faith,
but only the memory-knowledge
of such things as are of faith,
and in some cases
a persuasion that a thing is so
for the sake of earning gain or honor.
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