AC 7995 - The Laws of Order; AC 7999 - What Happens During Regeneration; AC 8002 - Regeneration Changes Perspective

AC 7995 - The Laws of Order

. . . all the statutes commanded to the sons of Israel
were laws of order in the external form,
but those things which they represented and signified
were laws of order in the internal form.
Laws of order are truths which are from good;
the complex of all the laws of order
is the Divine truth proceeding from
the Divine good of the Lord.
From this it is evident
that the Divine Itself of the Lord in heaven is order,
the Divine good the essential of order,
and the Divine truth its formal.

AC 7999 - What Happens in Regeneration

When a person is being regenerated,
his internal and external,
that is, the spiritual and the natural,
at first are at variance,
for the spiritual wills what is of heaven,
but the natural what is of the world.
But the spiritual then continually inflows into the natural
and brings it into agreement;
this is effected by means of truth;
and what the spiritual brings to itself in the natural
is called "bought with silver,"
that is, acquired and appropriated by means of truth.

AC 8002 [8] - Regeneration Changes Perspective

. . . before he is regenerated
a person cannot but think of reward;
but it is otherwise when he has been regenerated;
he is then indignant if anyone thinks
that he benefits his neighbor for the sake of reward,
for he feels delight and blessedness
in imparting benefits,
and not in recompense.