AC 6313 - Coming into the Light; AC 6325 - Being in Freedom, Being in Peace

AC 6313

When a man is being elevated toward interior things,
he comes out of the gross sensuous light
into a milder light,
and at the same time is withdrawn
from the influx of scandalous and filthy things,
and is brought nearer to the things
that belong to what is just and fair,
because nearer to the angels who are with him,
thus nearer to the light of heaven.
This elevation from sensuous things
was known to the ancients, even to the Gentiles,
and therefore when the lower mind
is withdrawn from sensuous things,
their wise men said that it comes into interior light,
and at the same time into a tranquil state,
and into a kind of heavenly bliss;
and from this they also concluded
that the mind is immortal.
Man is capable of being elevated still more interiorly,
and the more interiorly he is elevated,
the clearer is the light into which he comes;
and at last he comes into the light of heaven,
which light is nothing else
than wisdom and intelligence from the Lord.

AC 6325

It is an eternal truth
that the Lord rules heaven and earth,
and also that no one besides the Lord lives of himself,
consequently that everything of life flows in --
the good of life from the Lord,
and the evil of life from hell.
This is the faith of the heavens.
When a man is in this faith
(and he can be in it when he is in good),
then evil cannot be fastened and appropriated to him,
because he knows that it is not from himself,
but from hell.
When a man is in this state,
he can then be gifted with peace,
for then he will trust solely in the Lord.
. . . for the man who is led by the Lord
is in freedom itself,
and thus in delight and bliss itself;
goods and truths are appropriated to him;
there is given him
an affection and desire for doing what is good,
and then nothing is more delightful to him
than to perform uses.
There is given him a perception of good,
and also a sensation of it;
and there is given him intelligence and wisdom;
and all these as his own;
for he is then a recipient of the Lord's life.