AE 800 - becoming spiritual

AE 800 [2]

. . . faith and life make one,
like affection and thought,
like will and understanding,
like heat and light in the time of spring and summer,
from the conjunction of which comes all germination,
and like truth and good,
when truth is put in place of faith,
and good in place of life.

Such affirm within themselves
that no one who lives wickedly can have faith,
but only he who lives well,
and that one who lives wickedly cannot receive faith
unless he performs repentance of life
by seeking out his evils and desisting from them;
likewise that one who lives wickedly 
cannot, in his spirit or in himself,
have any other faith than a belief in falsity,
however he may profess with the mouth a belief in truth.
Therefore the life of those
who so conjoin life and faith 
in profession and in works 
is charity,
and their faith is the thought that a thing is so in truth.
The faith of such is spiritual
so far as they know truths from the Word,
and live according to them,
for faith becomes spiritual from the life,
and so far as man from them becomes spiritual
heaven is opened to him.