AC 5118 - The Interior and Exterior Natural

AC 5118

. . . the interior natural
is that which communicates with the rational
and into which the rational flows,
and the exterior natural
is that which communicates with the senses,
or through them with the world,
thus into which the world flows.
As regards influx,
it is continuous from the Lord
through the rational into the interior natural,
and through this into the exterior;
but that which flows in
is changed and turned according to the reception.
With the unregenerate,
goods are there turned into evils,
and truths into falsities;
but with the regenerate,
goods and truths are there presented as in a mirror.
For the natural is like a face
representative of the spiritual things
of the internal person;
and this face becomes representative
when the exteriors correspond to the interiors.