AC 4342 - The Depth of Interior Truths; AC 4347 - The Use of Humiliation and Submission

AC 4342 - The Depth of Interior Truths

For the more that truths enter in by the interior way
the more they are purified from worldly and earthly things.

AC 4347 [2-3] - The Use of Humiliation and Submission

As regards humiliation and submission,
few know why this must be in the presence of the Divine
when a person is in worship;
and consequently they do not know what it effects.
. . . The Divine is not in any affection of glory,
for what glory has the Divine from man?
But He wills humiliation and submission,
not for His own, but for the person's sake.
For when person is in humiliation
he feels aversion for the evil and falsity in himself,
and thus removes them,
and on their removal
the Divine can flow in with good and truth.
Everyone may be aware of this in himself.
He who is of elated mind is in the love of self,
and not only sets himself above others,
but also cares nothing for the Divine,
and consequently rejects the influx of good,
and so its conjunction with truths.
This is the genuine reason
for a person's humiliation before the Divine.

It is therefore clear
that good cannot be conjoined with truths,
thus that a person cannot be regenerated,
unless he humbles and submits himself.