AC 1935 - More on Those Who Have Conscience

AC 1935

The Lord's interior thought
was from the affection of intellectual truth,
and this affection was from the Divine good itself.
Such thought, as before said, never exists in any man,
nor can do so.
In man also there is interior thought
that flows in from the Lord
through his internal man into the interior rational,
with those who have conscience,
as may be seen from the fact
that they can observe
the evil and falsity in their external man
that is in conflict
with the good and truth in the interior man.
This thought is much lower
and is not in any way to be compared to that of the Lord,
which was from the affection of intellectual truth
and was proper and peculiar to Him.
But those who have not conscience
cannot have interior thought,
and therefore there is no conflict,
the reason of which is
that their rational acts as one and the same
with the corporeal sensual;
and though there is in them also
a continual influx of good and truth from the Lord,
yet they have no perception of it,
because they forthwith extinguish and suffocate it,
and this is why they do not believe any truth of faith.