AC 7757-7758 - When Good Is Conjoined With Truth

AC 7757

The conjunction of the good of charity with the truth of faith
is effected in the interiors of a person.
The good itself which flows in from the Lord
adopts truth there,
and appropriates it to itself,
and thereby causes the good with the person to be good,
and the truth to be truth;
or the charity to be charity,
and the faith to be faith.
Without this conjunction charity is not charity,
but only natural goodness;
neither is faith faith,
but only the memory-knowledge of such things
as are of faith,
and in some cases a persuasion
that a thing is so for the sake of earning gain or honor.

AC 7758

When truth has been conjoined with good
it is no longer called truth, but good;
and so when faith has been conjoined with charity
it is no longer called faith, but charity;
the reason is
that the person then wills and does the truth,
and that which he wills and does is called good.