AC 5700 - Inverted and Heavenly Order; AC 5703 - His Presence

AC 5700 [2]

Memory-knowledges are said to be in inverted order
when people abuse heavenly order to do evil;
for heavenly order is that good be done to all.
Consequently it comes to pass
that when they have thus inverted heavenly order,
they at last deny Divine things,
the things of heaven,
and consequently those of charity and faith.
Those who become such
know how to reason
acutely and skillfully from memory-knowledges,
because they reason from the senses,
and to reason from these
is to reason from such things as are external,
that is, from such as are of the body and the world,
which take direct hold
of a person's senses and feelings.
Unless such things have been illumined
by the light of heaven,
and thereby arranged in an entirely different order,
they put the person
in so great an obscurity as to heavenly things
that he not only comprehends none of them,
but even wholly denies,
and at last rejects them,
and then as far as he may,
blasphemes them.
When memory-knowledges are in order,
they are arranged by the Lord in the form of heaven;
but when they are in inverted order,
they are arranged in the form of hell,
and then things most false are in the midst,
and those which confirm them are at the sides,
while truths are without,
and because they are without
they can have no communication
with heaven where truths reign;
and therefore interior things are closed to such persons;
for heaven is open by means of things interior.

AC 5703

. . . when the Lord is present,
then all things are set in order by His very presence.
The Lord is order itself;
and therefore where He is present there is order,
and where there is order He is present.