AC 3438 - looking in the dark or looking in the light

AC 3438 [2-3]
And Jehovah appeared to him in that night, and said.
(Genesis 26:24)
Relatively to the literal sense,
the internal sense is like the interior
or celestial and spiritual things of a person
relatively to his exterior or natural and bodily things,
his interiors being in the light of heaven,
and his exteriors in the light of the world.
What the difference is
between the light of heaven and the light of the world . . .
is like the difference
between the light of day and the shade of night.  
A person, being in this shade,
and not being willing to know
that in truth from the Lord there is light,
cannot believe otherwise than that his shade is light,
and also on the other hand
that the light is shade;
for he is like a bird of night,
which as it flies in the shade of night thinks that it is in the light
but when in the light of day, that it is in the shade.
For with such a person the internal eye
(that is, the understanding), by which a person sees interiorly,
has been formed no differently than this,
because he has not formed it differently;
for he opens it when he looks downward,
that is, to worldly and bodily things,
and shuts it when he should look upward,
that is, to spiritual and heavenly things.
With such persons the case is the same in respect to the Word
- that which appears in its literal sense
they believe to be of light;
but that which appears in the internal sense
they believe to be of shade
(for the Word appears to everyone in accordance with his quality) . . ..

In the internal sense there are singulars,
myriads of which together make one particular
that is presented in the literal sense;
or what is the same,
in the internal sense there are particulars,
myriads of which together make in the literal sense one general;
and it is this general that is seen by a person,
but not the particulars which are in it and which constitute it.
Nevertheless the order of the particulars in the general
is apparent to a person,
but in accordance with his quality;
and this order is the holiness that affects him.