AC 1831, 1832 - Celestial Things, Spiritual Things

AC 1831

Celestial things, as has often been said,
are all that pertain to love to the Lord
and to love toward the neighbor.
It is the Lord who gives love and charity;
it is the church that receives.
What unites is conscience,
in which the love and charity are implanted;
and therefore the middle space between the parts
signifies that in person which is called
perception, internal dictate, and conscience.
The things which are above
the perception, dictate, and conscience, are the Lord's;
those which are below, are in man.
Because they thereby mutually regard each other,
there is said to be a parallelism;
and because they correspond to each other,
as the active and the passive,
there is said to be correspondence.

AC 1832 [1,2]

By spiritual things are signified, as often said before,
all the things of faith, consequently all doctrinal things,
for these are called things of faith,
although they are not of faith
until they have been conjoined with charity.
Between these and the Lord
there is not a parallelism and correspondence,
for they are such things as do not flow in
by internal dictate and conscience,
as do those which are of love and charity,
but they flow in by instruction,
and so by hearing,
thus not from the interior,
but from the exterior,
and in this way they form
their vessels or recipients in man. 

The greater part of them appear as if they were truths,
but are not truths,
such as those things
which are of the literal sense of the Word,
and are representatives of truth and significatives of truth,
and thus are not in themselves truths;
some of them even being falsities,
which however can serve as vessels and recipients.
But in the Lord there
are none but truths that are essentially such;
and therefore with these
there is no parallelism and correspondence
on the part of those apparent truths,
but still they may be so adapted
as to serve as vessels for the celestial things
which are of love and charity.
These apparent truths are what constitute
the cloud of the intellectual part,
before spoken of,
into which the Lord insinuates charity,
and so makes conscience.