AC 3030, 3033 - The Formation and Life of the Genuine Rational

AC 3030 [2-3, 3-4]

The genuine rational is from good,
but comes forth from truth.
Good flows in by an internal way;
but truth by an external way.
Good thus conjoins itself with truth in the rational,
and they cause the rational to be.
Unless the good therein is conjoined with truth,
there is no rational;
although there appears to be,
because the person can reason.
This is the common way
in which the rational is formed with a person.

. . . truth is to be conjoined
with the good of the rational,
and this, as before said,
by the common way, that is,
by means of memory-knowledges and knowledges
from the natural person.

The good itself of the rational,
which is formed by the internal way,
is the very ground;
but truth is the seed
which is to be sown in this ground.
The genuine rational is never born in any other way.

AC 3033 [2, 3]

. . . there can be no conjunction of falsity with good,
or of truth with evil,
but only of falsity with evil,
and of truth with good . . ..
When a person has the affection of good,
that is, when he wills good from the heart,
then whenever anything is to be thought of
that is to be willed and done,
his good willing flows into his thinking,
and there it applies itself
to the knowledges which are there,
and joins itself with them as its recipient vessels,
and by this conjunction
impels him so to think, to will, and to act.
It is as it were an ingrafting of good in truths
or in the knowledges of truth.

But those who have been
in the affection of good from the heart,
are able to receive all truth
in accordance with the amount
and the quality of the good
that has been with them.