AC 8456 - The Truth of Peace and the Truth of Faith

AC 8456

. . . the truth of peace
is the Divine truth proceeding from the Lord in heaven,
which being the inmost
insinuates itself into the truth which is beneath,
and vivifies it,
as the dew is wont to vivify the grass or growing crop
upon which it falls in the morning.
When the truth which is beneath has been vivified by it,
then the truth of peace goes up,
that is, as to appearance ceases,
and the truth which had received life from it
comes into view.
Thus is born the truth of faith.
For no truth of doctrine or of the Word
becomes truth with a person
until it has received life from the Divine,
and it receives life
through the insinuation of the truth
which proceeds from the Lord,
which is called "the truth of peace."
This truth is not the truth of faith,
but it is the life or soul of the truth of faith,
and it disposes into the heavenly form
all things which are in the truth
that is called "the truth of faith,"
and afterward it also disposes
the truths themselves one with another.
From all this it can be seen how the case is
with the insinuation of truth with a person
by means of the truth of peace.
Be it also known
that the lower or exterior things
with the person who is being regenerated
receive life in succession
from the higher or interior things;
thus the truth of faith from the truth of peace;
and the truth of peace from the Lord Himself.
The insinuation of life from the Lord
with those who are being regenerated
is effected in successive order by Him,
thus through what is inmost,
and so through interior things to exterior.
Consequently with the regenerated
there is a way opened even from the Lord;
but with those who are not regenerated
the way is closed.