AC 10252 - Celestial Good

AC 10252 - [2-3]

In order that celestial good,
which is inmost good,
may be born with man,
which is effected by the Lord through regeneration,
truths must be acquired from the Word,
or from the doctrine of the church
which is from the Word.
These truths obtain their first seat in the memory
of the natural or external man;
from this they are called forth by the Lord
into the internal man,
which is done when the man lives according to them;
and the more the man is affected with them,
or loves them,
the higher, or the more interiorly,
they are raised by the Lord,
and there become celestial good. 

Celestial good is the good of the love
of doing truths from the Word for the sake of good,
thus for the Lord's sake;
for the Lord is the source of good, thus is good;
and this is the generation of this good.
From this it is evident that this good comes forth
by means of truths from the Word,
first in the most external or sensuous man,
next by their elevation into the internal man,
and finally into the very inmost man,
where they become celestial good.
And as this good comes forth in this way
by means of truths in their order,
so it afterward subsists in a like order
by means of the same truths,
for subsistence is a perpetual coming-forth.
And when it so subsists,
as it had come forth,
it is complete,
for then the higher things subsist, rest,
and store up themselves in order,
upon the lower ones as upon their planes;
and upon their outermosts or ultimates,
which are sensuous memory-truths,
as upon their foundation.