AC 6789 - Moses - The law from the Divine; AC 6806 - "Knowing"

AC 6789 [2-3]

True memory-knowledge,
which is here represented by Moses,
is the truth of the external church;
this truth arises
from the truth which is of the law from the Divine,
which truth also is "Moses",
and the truth which is of the law from the Divine
is the truth of the internal church.
Unless external truth is from internal truth,
it cannot be conjoined with good.
Take the Word as an illustration.
Unless the internal of the Word
flows in with those who read the Word
and abide in the literal sense,
no conjunction is effected
of truth from the Word with good;
and the internal of the Word
flows in and is conjoined with good
when the man esteems the Word holy;
and he esteems it holy when he is in good.

Take as another illustration the Holy Supper.
Scarcely any know that the "bread" therein
signifies the Lord's love
toward the universal human race,
and the reciprocity of man;
and that the "wine" signifies charity.
Nevertheless, with those
who receive the bread and wine holily,
conjunction is effected
with heaven and with the Lord through these;
and the goods of love and charity
flow in through the angels,
who then do not think of bread and wine,
but of love and charity.
Hence it is evident
that external truth is conjoined with internal truth
when the man is in good,
without his knowing it.

AC 6806 [1, 3]

And God took knowledge.
(Exodus 2:25)

. . . the signification of "knowing,"
when predicated of God, that is, of the Lord,
as being to endow with charity;
for it is charity which conjoins the Lord with man,
and causes the Lord to be present with him,
consequently to know him.

"To know" involves conjunction,
and man is said to be "known" by the Lord
insofar as he is conjoined with Him.
The Lord also knows those who are not conjoined,
indeed, the very smallest particulars in every such man;
but these men, being in evil,
are in a different kind of presence,
which is as it were absence;
although the Lord is not absent,
but the man and the spirit who is in evil
is he who is absent;
and then it is said
that the Lord "does not know" them.
An image of this condition
appears among angels and spirits;
those who are alike as to states of life
appear near each other,
and thus mutually know each other;
but those who are unlike as to states of life,
appear to each other to be far away,
nor do they know each other in the same way.
In a word,
in the other life likeness of state
causes people to appear present, and to be known;
and unlikeness of state 
causes them to appear absent, and not to be known.