AC 10659 - The Lord Came Into the World

AC 10659 [3]

. . . to those who are in enlightenment
the Lord grants that they shall understand what they believe;
and when they are reading the Word,
those are enlightened and understand it,
who acknowledge the Lord
and love to live according to His commandments;
but not those who say that they believe,
and do not live;
for the Lord flows into the life of man
and from this into his faith,
but not into faith separate from life.
Consequently, those who are enlightened
by the Lord through the Word
understand that the Lord came into the world
in order to subjugate the hells,
and reduce into order
all things there and in the heavens;
and that this could not possibly be done
except by means of the Human;
for from this He could fight against the hells;
but not from the Divine without the Human;
and also that He might glorify His Human
in order that He might thereby forever keep
all things in the order 
into which He had reduced them.
From this comes the salvation of man,
for the hells are round every man,
because everyone is born into evils of every kind,
and where evils are, there are the hells;
and unless these were cast back
by the Divine power of the Lord,
no one could ever have been saved.