AC 6013 - Natural Truth and Innocence and Charity

AC 6013

. . . without innocence and charity,
natural truth cannot be caused to advance
by spiritual truths;
for in order that truth may be genuine,
it must derive its essence and life from charity,
and charity from innocence.
For the interior things which vivify truth
succeed one another in the following order:
inmost is innocence;
next lower is charity;
and lowest is work of charity
from truth or according to truth.
The reason why they succeed one another in this order
 is that they so succeed one another in the heavens.
For the inmost or third heaven
is the heaven of innocence;
the middle or second heaven
is the heaven of charity,
within which is innocence from the inmost heaven;
and the ultimate or first heaven
is the heaven of truth,
within which is charity from the second heaven,
and within this is innocence from the third.
All these must be in the same order with man,
in respect to his interiors
man is formed after the image of the three heavens;
and therefore a regenerated man
is a heaven in particular or in the least form.