AC 9398 - Obedience; AC 9399 - "Blood" = the Divine Truth Proceeding from the Lord

AC 9398 - Obedience

Obedience from the heart is obedience from the will,
thus from the affection of love;
and obedience from the soul
is obedience from the understanding,
thus from faith;
for "the heart" signifies the will and the love;
and "the soul" signifies the understanding and faith.
Therefore it is said, "we will do and hear."

AC 9399 [1, 3] - "Blood" = the Divine Truth

. . . the meaning of "the blood of the sacrifice,"
as being the Divine truth that proceeds from the Lord . . ..

For the Divine truth which is from the Lord
is continually flowing in with a person,
and forms his understanding;
and if you will believe it,
without this continual influx of the truth Divine
that proceeds from the Lord,
a person can perceive and understand
nothing whatever.
For the Divine truth that proceeds from the Lord
is the light which lights up the mind of a person,
and makes the internal sight,
which is the understanding;
and as this light continually flows in,
it adapts everyone to receive.
But those who receive
are those who are in the good of life;
and those who do not receive
are they who are in evil of life.
Nevertheless the latter, like the former,
have the capacity of perceiving and understanding,
and also the capacity of receiving,
insofar as they desist from evils.
These things were meant by
the half of the blood
which Moses sprinkled on the people.

That every person in the world
who is of sound reason
has the capacity of understanding truth Divine,
and consequently the capacity of receiving it,
insofar as he desists from evils,
has been given me to know by much experience.
For all in the other life, without exception,
both the evil and the good,
can understand what is true and what is false,
and also what is good and what is evil;
but although the evil understand
what is true and good,
they nevertheless do not desire to understand,
because their will and the evil therein
make resistance.