AC 4572 - The Cause of Joy & Consolation; AC 4574 - Honorable & Becoming; AC 4575 - Truths Coming from the Lord's Divine Human

  AC 4572 [2] - The Cause of Joy & Consolation

Be it known in general
that all the conjunction of good with truth
is effected by means of temptations,
the reason of which is that evils and falsities
offer resistance and as it were rebel,
and strive in every possible way to prevent
the conjunction of good with truth
and of truth with good.
This combat takes place
between the spirits who are with the person,
namely, between the spirits who are in evils and falsities,
and those who are in goods and truths,
and is perceived by the person
as a temptation within himself.
When therefore the spirits who are in evils and falsities
are conquered by the spirits who are in goods and truths,
and are compelled to depart,
the latter have joy through heaven from the Lord,
and this joy is perceived by the person as consolation,
and as in himself.
But the joy and consolation are not on account of victory,
but on account of the conjunction of good and truth;
for all conjunction of good and truth has joy within itself,
because this conjunction is the heavenly marriage
within which is the Divine.

AC 4574 [3] - Honorable & Becoming

What is honorable
is to will well to others from the heart
in the affairs of civil life,
and what is becoming
is to testify this in speech and gesture.

AC 4575 - Truths Coming from the Lord's Divine Human

Truths from the Divine marriage
are those which proceed from the Lord's Divine Human,
and are called holy,
for the Lord's Divine Human is the Divine marriage itself,
and the things which proceed from it are holy,
and are called celestial and spiritual,
and effect the heavenly marriage,
which is truth conjoined with good,
and good conjoined with truth.
This marriage exists in heaven,
and in everyone who is in heaven,
and also in everyone who is in the church,
provided he is in good and at the same time in truth.