AC 8685, 8694 - perception & revelation

AC 8685 [2]
. . . the person who is being regenerated
and becoming a church has two states;
in the first state he acts from truth,
in the second from good.
In both states the person is led by the Lord;
but in the first by immediate influx,
and in the second by influx both immediate and mediate.
Immediate influx is represented
by Moses judging the people alone;
but influx both immediate and mediate,
by the princes of thousands, of hundreds,
of fifties, and of tens, being chosen, to judge small affairs,
and to refer great affairs to Moses.
But these are arcana which scarcely anyone can understand,
except one who is in enlightenment from the Lord,
and through enlightenment in perception.
These two kinds of influx, and also the consequent effects,
can indeed be described,
but still they do not fall rightly into the thought
unless there is perception from heaven;
and perception from heaven is not given
except with those who are in the love of truth from good;
and not even then
unless they are in the love of truth from genuine good.

AC 8694 [2]
By "revelation"
is meant enlightenment when the Word is read,
and perception then;
for they who are in good and long for truth
are taught in this way from the Word;
but they who are not in good
cannot be taught from the Word,
but can only be confirmed in such things
as they have been instructed in from infancy,
whether true or false. T
he reason why those who are in good have revelation,
and those who are in evil have no revelation,
is that in the internal sense
each and all things in the Word treat of the Lord
and of His kingdom,
and the angels who are with a person
perceive the Word according to the internal sense.
This is communicated to the person who is in good,
and reads the Word,
and from affection longs for truth,
and consequently has enlightenment and perception.
For with those who are in good
and from this in the affection of truth,
the intellectual part of the mind is open into heaven,
and their soul, that is, their internal man,
is in fellowship with angels;
but it is otherwise with those who are not in good,
thus who do not from the affection of good long for truth;
to these heaven is closed.