AC 5881 - Commotion

AC 5881

By commotion is meant a new disposition
and setting in order of truths in the natural,
concerning which setting in order
be it known that the order in which
memory-knowledges and truths are arranged
in man's memory is unknown to man,
but when it pleases the Lord it is known to angels.
For it is a wonderful order.
They cohere as in little bundles,
and the little bundles themselves cohere together,
and this according to the connection of things
which the man had conceived.
These coherences are more wonderful
than any man can ever believe.
In the other life they are sometimes presented to view,
for in the light of heaven which is spiritual
such things can be exhibited to the sight of the eye,
but not at all in the light of the world.
. . . while the man is being regenerated,
and conjunction is being effected
of the good of the internal man
with the truths of the external,
a commotion takes place among the truths,
for they then undergo a different arrangement.
. . . The commotion then made,
manifests itself by an anxiety
arising from the change of the former state,
namely, from a privation of the delight
which had been in that state.
This commotion also manifests itself by anxiety
concerning the past life -
that internal good and the internal itself
had been relegated to the lowest place -
which anxiety is treated of in what follows.