AC 9683 - immediate and mediate influx - or the workings of Providence and Order

AC 9683
That there is mediate influx from the Lord through the inmost heaven,
and immediate influx from Himself . . ..
With every good which makes heavenly life, thus eternal life,
with man and with angel, the case is this:
The inmost of good is the Lord Himself,
consequently is the good of love which is immediately from Him;
the good which next succeeds is the good of mutual love;
then the good of charity toward the neighbor;
finally the good of faith.
This is the successive order of goods from the inmost.
From this it can be seen how the case is with immediate and mediate influx.
In general it may be said that insofar as a good succeeding in order,
has in it a more interior good,
so far it is good,
for insofar it is nearer to the Lord Himself,
who, as before said, is the inmost good.
But the successive arrangement and setting in order
of interior goods in exterior,
varies in each and all subjects according to the reception,
and the reception is according to the spiritual and moral life
in the world of everyone,
for the life in the world remains with everyone to eternity.

[2] The influx of the Lord is also immediate with everyone,
for without immediate influx the mediate effects nothing.
Immediate influx is received according to the order
in which the person or angel is,
thus according to the Divine truth
which is from the Divine, because this is order;
and so it is order itself with person
that he should live in the good which is from the Lord,
that is, that he should live from the Lord.
This influx is continual,
and is adjoined to each and all things of the will of a person,
directing them as much as possible into order,
for a person's own will is continually leading him away from order.
It is the same with the voluntary and involuntary things in a person.
His voluntary things continually lead away from order,
but the involuntary ones continually bring back to order.
It is for this reason that the motion of the heart, which is involuntary,
is completely removed from man's will . . ..