AC 10685 - temptations & regeneration

AC 10685
. . . the internal person is opened and given to a person
by means of temptations.
So it is that
everyone who is being regenerated undergoes temptations.
The reason why the internal is opened
and given by means of temptations,
is that when a person is in temptations
(which are combats against evils and falsities),
the Lord flows in from within, and fights for him;
as the person may know from the fact
that when he is in temptations he resists inwardly,
for unless he resisted inwardly
he would not conquer, but would yield.
This interior resistance
does not come to the notice of the person at the time,
because when he is in temptations
he is in obscurity,
from the evil and from the falsities of evil
which are assailing him;
but after the temptations,
it is noticed by those who are in the perception of truth.
For the things which are introduced by the Lord
into the internal of a person
are unknown to him while he lives in the world,
because at that time
he thinks in the external or natural person,
and not perceptibly in the internal person
until he comes into the other life.
Nevertheless when he has overcome in temptations
he ought to know and acknowledge
that he himself has not fought,
but the Lord for him.