AC 2973 - The Lamp of the Body; AC 2974 - A Primary Article of Faith; AC 2975 - Agreement in Regeneration

AC 2973 [ 5]

With those who are in celestial and spiritual love,
good from the Lord flows in
through the soul into the body,
and consequently the body becomes full of light;
but with those who are in bodily and worldly love,
good from the Lord cannot flow in
through the soul into the body,
but their interiors are in darkness;
instead the body becomes full of darkness,
according to what the Lord teaches in Matthew:

The lamp of the body is the eye;
if the eye be single,
the whole body is full of light;
but if the eye be evil,
the whole body is full of darkness.
If therefore the light be darkness,
how great is the darkness.
(Matt. 6:22-23);

by the "eye" is signified the intellectual
which belongs to the soul.

AC 2974

It is a primary article of faith
that all good and all truth are the Lord's,
thus from the Lord alone.
The more interiorly anyone acknowledges this,
the more interiorly he is in heaven;
for in heaven it is perceived to be so,
and there is there a sphere of perception that it is so;
for they are in good which is from the Lord alone,
and this is what is called being in the Lord.

AC 2975

. . . if the will and understanding do not agree,
even so as to make a one,
the man has not been regenerated;
that is, if good and truth,
or what is the same, charity and faith,
are not a one;
for charity is of the will,
and faith is of the understanding.