AC 9034 - how the literal serves the spiritual

AC 9034 [3]
How the truth of the literal sense of the Word
serves spiritual truth, shall be briefly told.
A member of the Church
first of all learns truth from the literal sense of the Word.
This is general truth
suited to the understanding of the external person,
who dwells in natural light.
That truth is received by an external route,
which is that of hearing,
and is stored in the external person's memory,
where there are also various pieces of knowledge
gained from the world.
Later on matters stored in this memory
come under the vision or gaze of the internal person,
who sees things in the light of heaven.
The internal person selects and summons from among them
truths that are in agreement with the good
which flows in from the Lord by way of the soul
and which the person has accepted.
There the Lord joins the truths to the good.
The truths joined in that way in the internal person
are called spiritual truths,
and the good to which the truths have been joined
is called spiritual good.
This good, given form by the truths,
constitutes the person's spiritual life.
The actual truths there are called the truths of faith,
and the good is called the good of charity.
The good in which the truths have been implanted in that way
is the Church with that person.