AC 5920 - The Clarity of Perception; AC 5922 - The Use of the Word

AC 5920 - The Clarity of Perception

For the nearer truth and good are to the internal,
the more perfect a perception they have,
being more deeply in the light of heaven,
and thus nearer to the Lord.
For the influx of Divine good and truth from the Lord
advances through continuous mediations,
and thus successions;
and therefore those
who are in first principles or beginnings
receive the influx with a clearer perception
(because more immediately)
than those who are in intermediates and ultimates.
There is a successive obscuration of good and of truth
(as there is of light) according to distances,
for the more imperfect things
which follow in succession by degrees,
cause dimness.

AC 5922 [5] - The Use of the Word

. . . the Word is Divine truth for the use of the church.