AC 5661 - The Heavenly Proprium

AC 5661 [2-3]

. . . in the other life . . . spirits
who are being initiated into good by means of truths,
and especially into this one --
that all good and truth flow in from the Lord.
When they perceive
that everything they think and will flows into them,
thus that they have no power
to think and to will from themselves,
they resist as much as they can,
believing that if this were so 
they would have no life of their own,
and thereby that all delight would perish,
for they vest this in what is their own.
Besides, if they cannot
do good or believe truth of themselves,
they suppose they should let go their hands,
doing and thinking nothing from themselves,
and should wait for influx. 

They are permitted to think so,
even to the extent of almost coming to the conclusion
that they do not desire
to receive good and truth from this source,
but from some other
by which there would not be
such a loss of what is their own;
and sometimes it is given them to inquire
where they may find it.
Yet afterward when they find it nowhere,
those who are being regenerated come back,
and in freedom choose to be led by the Lord
in their willing and thinking.
They are then informed
that they will receive a proprium that is heavenly,
such as angels have,
and with this proprium,
also blessedness and happiness to eternity. 

As regards the proprium that is heavenly,
this comes forth from the new will
that is given by the Lord,
and differs from the man's proprium
in the fact that they who have it
no longer regard themselves
in each and all things they do,
and in each and all things they learn or teach;
but they then have regard
to the neighbor, the public, the church,
the Lord's kingdom, and thereby to the Lord Himself.
It is the ends of life that are changed.
The ends that look to lower things,
that is, to self and the world, are removed,
and ends that look to higher things
are substituted in their place.
The ends of life are nothing else
than the man's life itself,
for they are his very will and loves,
because what a man loves he wills and has for his end.
He who is gifted with a proprium that is heavenly
is also in quietude and in peace;
for he trusts in the Lord,
and believes that nothing of evil will reach him,
and knows that evil desires will not infest him.
And besides, those who are in the heavenly proprium
are in freedom itself;
for to be led by the Lord is freedom,
because they are led in good, by good, to good.
From this it is evident
that they are in blessedness and happiness,
for there is nothing that disturbs them,
nothing of the love of self,
consequently nothing of enmity, hatred, and revenge;
nor is there anything of the love of the world,
consequently nothing of fraud, of fear, of unrest.