AC 10026 - How Truth and the Life of Faith; AC 10029 - Truth and Good in the External and Internal

AC 10026

. . . by "blood" in the Word is signified
the Divine truth that proceeds
from the Lord's Divine good,
and all purification is effected thereby,
for truth teaches man what is good
and how he should live,
and when a man knows this,
then for the first time
can the affection or love of good be implanted,
and thus the man be regenerated.
For knowledge must come first,
before man can have faith,
and live the life of faith,
which is the life of good.

AC 10029

The truth in the natural is memory-knowledge,
and the good there is the delight of this,
both of which are perceptible to man
while he is in the world,
for when they are thought of they are seen.
But the truth in the internal man
is not memory-knowledge that is seen,
but is truth implanted in its intellectual part;
and the good there also is not perceptible,
because it is implanted in the will part --
both in the man's interior life,
in which truth is of faith, and good is of love.
Such is the difference between
the truth and good
in the internal or spiritual man,
and the truth and good
in the external or natural man.