AC 9648 - suffering to be raised

AC 9648
. . . the more interior any state is,
the more perfect it is;
and the more exterior it is,
the more imperfect,
thus the more obscure.
It is for this reason
that the higher a person can be raised toward interior things,
the more he comes into the perception of good,
and into the light of truth;
and therefore when a person puts off bodily things,
which are the veriest external things,
as is the case when he departs out of the world;
if he has lived a life of truth and good
he comes into intelligence and wisdom,
and thus into the perception of every happiness;
and into a perception all the greater,
in proportion
as through a life of good from the doctrine of truth
he has suffered himself to be raised
toward the interior things of heaven.