AC 4726 - When the Word Is Open to the Internal Sense; AC 4727 - The Lord's Divine Human; AC 4729 - Three Sources of Falsity

AC 4726 - When the Word is Open to the Internal Sense

But because Divine truth as to its essentials
is rejected by those who are in faith alone . . .
to such persons falsities appear as truths,
and truths as falsities,
or if not as falsities, yet as empty things . . ..
That Divine truths appear to such persons as empty,
is evident from many things --
as for example, it is a Divine truth
that the Word is holy and Divinely inspired as to every jot,
and that its holiness and Divine inspiration
are in consequence of everything in it
being representative and significative (symbolic)
of heavenly and spiritual things of the Lord's kingdom.
But when the Word is open to the internal sense,
and it is taught what its particulars represent and mean,
then such as are in faith alone
reject these things as empty,
saying that they are of no use;
although these heavenly and spiritual things
are what would affect
the internal person with greater delight
than worldly things affect the external person;
and so in many other instances.

AC 4727 [2] - The Lord's Divine Human

. . . it is plain how greatly those err
who make the Lord's Human, after it was glorified,
to be like the human of a man, when yet it is Divine.
From His Divine Human proceeds all the wisdom,
all the intelligence, and also all the light, in heaven.
Whatever proceeds from Him is holy . . ..

AC 4729 - Three Sources of Falsity

For there are three sources of falsity,
one the doctrine of the church,
another the fallacy of the senses,
and the third a life of cupidities (greeds).
That which is from the doctrine of the church
takes hold of a person's intellectual part only;
for he is persuaded from infancy that it is so,
and confirmatory things afterwards strengthen it.
But that which is from the fallacy of the senses
does not so much affect the intellectual part;
for those who are in falsity from the fallacy of the senses
have but little insight from the understanding,
because they think from lower and sensuous things.
But the falsity which is from a life of cupidities
springs from the will itself,
or what is the same, from the heart;
for what a person wills from the heart, he desires.
This falsity is the worst of all,
because it inheres, and is not eradicated
except by new life from the Lord.