The Redemption of the Spiritual and the Celestial

AC 2954

The redemption or reformation and salvation
of the men of the spiritual church
is effected through truth;
but that of the men of the celestial church
through good.
The reasons have been repeatedly stated above,
namely,
that the spiritual have nothing of the will of good,
but in its stead have been gifted with the faculty
of understanding what is good.
The understanding of good
is what is principally called truth,
and indeed the truth of faith;
but willing and consequently doing this
is what is called good.
The spiritual therefore,
through the understanding of good,
or what is the same, through truth,
are introduced into the will of good,
or what is the same, into good;
not however into anything
of the will of good from themselves,
for with them all the will of good has been lost;
but into a new will which they receive from the Lord;
and when they have received this will
they are then called specifically the redeemed.