AC 5461 - When We Live to Let the Lord Flow In

AC 5461

. . . when faith in the will,
or the will of doing the truth of faith,
is separated from those
who are in the truths of the church,
then connection with the Divine is so slight
that it is hardly more than acknowledgment;
for the influx of the Divine from the Lord
with the regenerate person is into good
and from there into truth,
or what is the same,
into the will and from there into the understanding.
Insofar therefore as the person
who is in the truths of faith
receives good from the Lord,
so far the Lord forms in him
a new will in his intellectual part,
and so far the Lord flows in,
and produces the affection of doing what is good,
that is, of exercising charity toward the neighbor.