AC 2973 - Being In Correspondence To Receive the Lord; AC 2974 - Being In the Lord

AC 2973 [4-5]

. . . with a person,
his inmost is where the Lord dwells with him,
and from this inmost
governs the things which are round about.
When a person suffers the Lord
to dispose the things round about
to correspondence with the inmost ones,
then a person is in such a state
that he can be received into heaven;
and then the inmost, the interior, and the external things
act as one;
but when a person does not suffer the Lord
to dispose the things round about to correspondence,
then he recedes from heaven
in the measure in which he does not suffer it.
That the soul of a person is in the midst,
or in his inmost,
and that the body is round about
or in the outmosts,
is well known;
for it is the body that encompasses and invests
his soul or his spirit.

With those who are in celestial and spiritual love,
good from the Lord flows in
through the soul into the body,
and from there the body becomes full of light;
but with those who are in bodily and worldly love,
good from the Lord cannot flow in
through the soul into the body,
but their interiors are in darkness;
from which also the body becomes full of darkness . . ..

AC 2974

It is a primary article of faith
that all good and all truth are the Lord's,
thus from the Lord alone.
The more interiorly anyone acknowledges this,
the more interiorly he is in heaven;
for in heaven it is perceived to be so,
and there is there a sphere of perception that it is so;
for they are in good which is from the Lord alone,
and this is what is called being in the Lord.