AC 5893 - Working Together

AC 5893 [2]

There must be truths in the natural mind
in order that good may work,
and the truths must be introduced
by means of the affection which is of genuine love.
All things whatever that are in man's memory
have been introduced by means of some love,
and remain there conjoined with it.
So also it is with the truths of faith --
if these truths have been introduced
by means of the love of truth,
they remain conjoined with this love.
When they have been conjoined,
then the case is as follows.
If the affection is reproduced,
the truths which are conjoined with it
come forth at the same time;
and if the truths are reproduced,
the affection itself
with which they have been conjoined
comes forth at the same time.
Wherefore during man's regeneration
(which is effected in adult age,
because previously he does not think from himself
about the truths of faith)
he is ruled by means of angels from the Lord,
by being kept in the truths
which he has impressed upon himself to be truths,
and by means of these truths
in the affection with which they have been conjoined;
and as this affection, namely, of truth,
is from good,
he is thus led by degrees to good.