AC 3089 - The First Affection of Truth; AC 3090 - Reciprocation and Marriage; AC 3085 - The Good of Truth

AC 3089

With a person about to be regenerated
the case is that his first affection of truth is very impure;
for there is in it an affection of use
and an end for the sake of himself,
for the sake of the world,
for the sake of glory in heaven, and the like,
which ends regard himself,
but not the community,
the Lord's kingdom,
and still less the Lord.
Such an affection necessarily precedes;
nevertheless it is successively purified by the Lord,
till at last falsities and evils are removed
and are cast as it were into the circumference;
and yet they had been of service as means.

AC 3090

What the reciprocation of truth is
when it is to be conjoined with good,
is apparent from marriages;
for marriage comes from the fact
that there is consent on both sides.
This has its origin
from the marriage of good and truth;
on the side of good there is will,
and on that of truth there is consent,
and from this comes the conjunction.
Although this reciprocation
is not apparent with a person
when he is being regenerated, that is,
when he is entering into the heavenly marriage,
it nevertheless takes place.

AC 3085

The good of truth
is that which is produced from good by means of truth,
and is like an offspring born of truth as a mother,
and of good as a father.
All the genuine good in the natural person is from this,
that is,
from the marriage of good and truth in the rational.
This good is that which is called the good of truth . . ..