AC 9276 - how the Lord flows into us

AC 9276 [4, 5, 6, 7]
By "a person of the church" is meant
one who from the Lord is in the good of charity,
and from this in the truths of faith;
for charity from which is faith
is the very church itself with a person,
because charity and faith are from the Lord;
for the Lord flows into this good,
which is the person's internal;
and through it into the affection of truth,
which is his external;
and through this affection into the delights of external truth,
which are in his uttermost external.

. . . a person of the church in particular is a heaven, a church,
and a kingdom of the Lord in the least form.

. . . the heart first flows into the lungs
and through these into the viscera and members of the body,
so likewise the Lord flows
through the good of love into internal truths,
and through these into external truths and goods.

For people suppose that life is in themselves,
and that this can subsist without any connection with heaven,
that is, through heaven from the Lord,
although this opinion is utterly false.