AC 6012 & 6013
... natural truth cannot be advanced from any other source than spiritual truth,
for its life and force of acting are thence derived.
... without innocence and charity,
natural truth cannot be caused to advance by spiritual truths;
for in order that truth may be genuine,
it must derive its essence and life from charity,
and charity from innocence.
For the interior things which vivify truth
succeed one another in the following order:
inmost is innocence;
next lower is charity;
and lowest is work of charity from truth or according to truth.
The reason why they succeed one another in this order
is that they so succeed one another in the heavens.
... a regenerated man is a heaven in particular on in least form.
As man's external senses are formed
after the whole image of the natural world,
so his internal sense, which belong to his understanding and will,
are formed after the whole image of heaven,
to the end that every man
may be in particular a recipient of Divine good from the Lord,
as heaven is in general.
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