AC 10067 - Conjunction With the Lord

AC  10067 [7-9]

But these things can be better apprehended
from the reciprocal conjunction 
of good and truth in the man 
who is being regenerated by the Lord,
for as before said the Lord regenerates man
as He glorified His Human.
When the Lord is regenerating man,
He insinuates the truth
which is to be of faith in the man's understanding,
and the good
which is to be of love in his will,
and therein conjoins them;
and when they have been conjoined,
then the truth which is of faith
has its life from the good which is of love,
and the good which is of love
has the quality of its life from the truth which is of faith.
This conjunction is reciprocally accomplished
by means of good,
and is called the heavenly marriage,
and is heaven with man.
In this heaven the Lord dwells as in His own,
for all the good of love is from Him,
and also all the conjunction of truth with good.
The Lord cannot dwell in anything of man's own,
because it is evil.

This reciprocal conjunction is what is meant
by the words of the Lord in John:

In that day you shall know that I am in My Father,
and you in Me, and I in you.
(John 14:20)

All Mine are Yours,
and Yours are Mine,
and I am glorified in them ...
that they may all be one,
as You, Father, are in Me,
and I am in You,
and they may be one in Us.
(John 17:10, 21, 22)

Reciprocal conjunction is thus described;
but still it is not meant
that man conjoins himself with the Lord,
but that the Lord conjoins with Himself
the man who desists from evils;
for to desist from evils has been left to the man's decision,
and when he desists,
then is effected the reciprocal conjunction
of the truth which is of faith
and of the good which is of love from the Lord,
and not at all from man;
for that from himself man can do nothing of good,
and thus can receive nothing of truth in good,
has been known in the church;
and this also the Lord confirms in John:

Abide in Me, and I In you.
He that abides in Me, and I in him,
the same bears much fruit;
for without Me
you can do nothing.
(John 15:4, 6)

This reciprocal conjunction can be illustrated
from the conjunction
of the understanding and will in man;
his understanding is formed from truths,
and his will from goods;
and truths are of faith with him,
and goods are of love.
Man imbibes truths from hearing,
through the sense of hearing;
and from reading through the sight;
and stores them up in his memory.
These truths relate either to the
civil state, or to the moral state,
and are called memory-knowledges.