AR 541 [2]
. . . the only thing that makes a person human,
and the only means by which
he is conjoined with the Lord,
is his ability to do good and believe truths
as though of himself, namely,
as though of his own will
in accordance with his own judgment.
If this one ability were to be taken away,
every means of a person's conjunction
with the Lord
and of the Lord with the person
would be taken away at the same time.
For it is this ability to reciprocate love
that the Lord confers on everyone
who is born human,
which He also preserves in the person
even to the end of his life,
and afterward to eternity.
If this were to be taken from a
person,
he would have every truth and good of the Word
taken from him at the same time,
to the point that the Word would become
nothing but a dead letter and an empty book.
For the Word teaches nothing else
but a person's conjunction with the Lord
through charity and faith,
both emanating from the person
as though from himself.
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