AC 2531 - Receiving the Divine and His Word

AC 2531 [2-4]

What is Divine is incomprehensible,
because above all understanding, even the angelic;
but still this Divine, which in itself is incomprehensible,
can flow in through the Lord's Divine Human
into a person's rational;
and when it flows into his rational,
it is there received
according to the truths which are therein;
thus variously, and not with one as with another.
Insofar therefore
as the truths with a person are more genuine,
so far the Divine which flows in
is received more perfectly,
and so far the man's understanding is enlightened.

In the Lord's Word are Truths themselves;
but in its literal sense are truths
which are accommodated to the apprehension of those
who are in external worship;
whereas in its internal sense are truths
accommodated to those who are internal people;
that is, to those who are angelic as to doctrine
and at the same time as to life.
. . . it is plain how important it is
that interior truths be known and received.
These truths may indeed be known,
but by no means received,
except by those who have love to the Lord,
or faith in Him;
for as the Lord is the Divine good,
so He is the Divine truth;
consequently He is doctrine itself,
since whatever is in the doctrine of true faith
looks to the Lord,
and looks also to the heavenly kingdom and the church,
and to all things of the heavenly kingdom and the church.
But all these are His,
and are the intermediate ends
through which the last end, that is, the Lord, is regarded.

That the Lord is doctrine itself as to truth and good,
and thus that it is He who alone is regarded in doctrine,
He teaches John:

Jesus said, I am the way, the Truth, and the Life
(John 14:6, 7);

where the "Way" is doctrine,
the "Truth" all that is of doctrine,
and the "Life" the good itself which is the life of the truth.
And that love to Him or faith in Him is what receives . . ..