AC 10396, 10397, 10400 - The External, Internal, and Enlightenment

AC 10396 [3]

. . . those who are in bodily and earthly loves;
namely, that the interiors with them are closed;
and those with whom the interiors have been closed
do not acknowledge anything internal,
saying that only those things exist
which they see with their eyes and touch with their hands,
and that all other things
which they do not see with their eyes
and touch with their hands, 
have no existence.
Consequently they have no faith
in the existence of heaven,
of the life after death,
or that the interior things which the church teaches
are anything.

AC 10397

He who separates 
the internal of the Word,
of the church,
and of worship from the external,
separates from it the holy Divine.
For the internal of these is their spirit;
but the external is the body of this spirit,
and the body without the spirit is dead;
and accordingly to worship
what is dead is to worship an idol,
in this case to worship the golden calf
and to proclaim a feast to it,
and so to make the people lax.

AC 10400 [3-4]

. . . the interior intellectual ideas of man
are not such as are his natural ideas,
to which nevertheless they correspond. 

But of the nature of these ideas man
is not aware so long as he lives in the body;
but he comes into them spontaneously
when he comes into the other life,
because they are implanted in him,
and by means of them
he is forthwith in fellowship with the angels.
From this it is evident
that the man whose internal is open,
is in the internal sense of the Word,
although he is not aware of it.
From this he has enlightenment
when he reads the Word,
but according to the light that he can have
by means of the knowledges which he has.