AC 5044 - Princes and King; AC 5049 - "Jehovah Made to Prosper" (Genesis 39:23)

AC 5044 [1-3, 5] - Princes and King

With all who are in temptations
there flows in truth from the Lord,
which rules and governs the thoughts
and raises up the sufferers
whenever they fall into doubts and even into despair.
This governing truth is that truth and such truth
as they have learned from the Word or from doctrine,
and have confirmed in themselves.
Other truths are indeed at such times also called to mind,
but they do not govern the interiors.
Sometimes the truth which governs
is not presented visibly before the understanding,
but lies hid in obscurity,
yet it still governs;
for the Divine of the Lord flows into it,
and thus keeps the interiors of the mind in it,
and therefore when it comes into light,
the person who is in temptation
receives consolation and is relieved.

It is not this truth itself,
but the affection of it,
by which the Lord governs those who are in temptations;
for the Divine flows only into those things
which are of the affection.
The truth which is implanted and rooted in
a person's interiors
is implanted and rooted by affection,
and not at all without affection;
and the truth which has been implanted
and rooted by affection, clings there,
and is recalled by affection;
and when this truth is so recalled,
it presents the affection that is conjoined with it,
which is the person's reciprocal affection.
As such is the case with the person who is in temptations,
therefore no one is admitted into any spiritual temptation
until he reaches adult age,
and has thus become imbued with
some truth by which he can be governed;
otherwise he sinks under the temptation,
and then his latter state is worse than the first.
From these things it may be seen what is meant
by truth governing in a state of temptations,
which is signified by the "prince of the prison house."

That a "prince" denotes primary truth,
is because a "king" in the internal sense
signifies truth itself;
hence "princes," because they are the sons of a king,
signify the primary things of that truth.

. . . the angels also reject from themselves
the idea of a king and a prince;
and when they perceive it in a person,
they transfer it to the Lord,
and perceive that which proceeds from the Lord
and is the Lord's in heaven,
namely, the Divine truth from His Divine good.

AC 5049 - "Jehovah Made to Prosper" (Genesis 39:23)

That "making to prosper,"
in the supreme sense, is providence,
is because everything prosperous
which appears in the ultimates of nature
is in its origin from the Divine providence of the Lord.