AC 8768, 8772 - this life

AC 8768 [2]
That they who have the Word . . .
know the truths and goods of faith,
and because this is so
they can above others live the life of heaven
and thus be conjoined with the Lord.
For good, which makes heaven with a person,
has its quality from the truths of faith;
thus good becomes more heavenly or more Divine
with those who have genuine truths,
which are truths from the Word;
but only if they are kept, that is,
if the life is according to them.

AC 8772 [2]
This life, namely, spiritual life,
is first acquired by knowing the truths which are of faith,
afterward by acknowledging them,
and finally by believing them.
When they are only known,
they are as it were at the gate;
when they are acknowledged,
they are in the entrance hall;
but when they are believed,
they are in the inner chamber.
Thus they advance
from exteriors toward interiors successively.
In the interior person is good,
which is continually flowing in from the Lord,
and there conjoining itself with truths,
and making them to be faith
and afterward to be charity.
This good attracts truths to itself,
for it has a longing for them,
in order that through them
it may procure for itself a quality
and thus emerge.