AC 2269 - The Conjunction of Goods and Truths

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The more genuine and pure truth is,
the better the good from the Lord is able
to be accommodated to it as the recipient vessel;
but the less genuine and pure truth is,
the less is good from the Lord able to be accommodated.
For they must each answer to the other;
and to the extent that they do,
they are joined together.
Goods cannot possibly be received into falsities,
nor evils into truths as their recipient vessels,
for they are by nature and disposition contrary.
The one rejects the other as its very enemy;
indeed if they tried to join together,
each of them would throw up --
good would throw up evil as though it were poison,
and evil would throw up good
as though it were something that induces vomiting.
Such enmity between evil and good
has been provided by the Lord
to prevent the possibility of their being mixed together,
for if they were so mixed
a person would perish.
Those who are deceivers and hypocrites
come near to having the two joined together in them;
yet even in their case
the Lord takes care to prevent them
becoming joined together.
This is the reason why in the next life
deceivers and hypocrites
suffer more dreadfully than all others.