NJHD 23 - Those Who Are In Truths, and by Them Look and Tend to Good

NJHD 23

. . . truth becomes good,
when it becomes of the love or will,
or when a person loves and wills it.

When a person is regenerated,
truths enter with the delight of affection,
because he loves to do them,
and they are reproduced with the same affection
because the two cohere.

The affection which is of love
always adjoins itself to truths
according to the uses of life,
and that affection is reproduced with the truths,
and the truths are reproduced with the affection.

Good acknowledges nothing else for truth
than what agrees with the affection
which is of the love.

Truths are introduced by delights
and the pleasantness that agree . . ..

All genuine affection of truth is from good,
and according to it.

Thus there is an insinuation and an influx
of good into truths, and conjunction.

And thus truths have life.

. . . every good has its own truth,
and every truth its own good,
because good without truth does not exist,
and truth without good is not truth.