AC 5398, 5402 - The Sanctuary of the Word

AC 5398 [2-3]

For a person is so evil
that he cannot to eternity
be fully delivered from even one sin,
but can only by the mercy of the Lord
(if he has received it)
be withheld from sin, 
and kept in good. 

In what manner therefore
a person receives new life and is regenerated,
is contained in the sanctuary of the Word,
that is, in its internal sense,
chiefly to the end that
when the Word is being read by a person
the angels may thereby
be in their happiness of wisdom,
and also be at the same time
in the delight of serving as means.

AC 5402 [2]

Everyone who is within the church
first procures the truths which are of faith
from doctrinal things,
and also must so procure them,
because he has not yet sufficient strength of judgment
to enable him to see them himself from the Word;
but in this case
these truths are to him
nothing but memory-knowledges.
But when he is able to view them
from his own judgment,
if he then does not consult the Word
in order to see from it whether they are true,
they remain in him as memory-knowledges;
while if he does consult the Word
from the affection and end of knowing truths,
he then, when he has found them,
procures for himself
the things of faith from the genuine fountain,
and they are appropriated to him from the Divine.