AC 5808 - Love Is Spiritual Conjunction in Harmony; AC 5816 - The Light of Good from Truth

 AC 5808 [2] - Love Is Spiritual Conjunction in Harmony

 . . . love is spiritual conjunction,
because it is a conjunction of the minds,
or of the thought and the will,
of two.
From this it is evident
that regarded in itself love is purely spiritual,
and that the natural of it
is the delight of consociation and conjunction.
In its essence
love is the harmony
resulting from changes of the state,
and variations in the forms or substances,
of which the human mind consists.
This harmony,
if from the heavenly form,
is heavenly love.
It is evident therefore
that love cannot have any other origin than
the Divine love itself which is from the Lord;
thus that love is the Divine which flows into forms,
and so disposes them
that their changes of state and variations
may be in the harmony of heaven.

AC 5816 [2] - The Light of Truth from Good

As to there being no mercy
and no conjunction with the truths in the natural,
unless the truth which is represented by Benjamin
be subject to the internal good which is "Joseph,"
the case is this.
The truth which makes a person to be the church
is the truth which is from good;
for when a person is in good
then from good he sees truths and perceives them,
and thus believes that they are truths;
but not at all if he is not in good.
Good is like a little flame
which gives light and illumines,
and causes a person to see, perceive, and believe truths.
For the affection of truth from good
determines the internal sight from there,
and withdraws the sight from worldly and bodily things,
which induce darkness.
Such is the truth which Benjamin here represents.
That this is the only truth of the church . . .
it is the only truth which makes a person to be the church.
But this truth must be altogether subject to
the internal good which is represented by Joseph;
for the Lord flows in through internal good,
and gives life to the truths which are below;
thus also to this truth
which is from spiritual good from the natural,
which is represented by Israel.