AC 1904 [2-3]
Intellectual truth is internal,
rational truth is intermediate,
truth of memory-knowledge is external.
These are most distinct from each other,
because one is more internal than another.
With any person whatever,
intellectual truth, which is internal, or in his inmost,
is not the person's,
but is the Lord's with the person.
From this the Lord flows into the rational,
where truth first appears as belonging to a person;
and through the rational into the memory-knowledge;
from which it is evident
that a person cannot possibly think as of himself
from intellectual truth,
but only from rational truth
and truth of memory-knowledge,
because these appear as if they were his.
The Lord alone, when He lived in the world,
thought from intellectual truth,
for this was His Divine truth in conjunction with Good,
or the Divine spiritual
in conjunction with the Divine celestial,
and herein was the Lord distinguished
from every other person.
To think from what is Divine
as from himself
is never possible to a person,
nor in a person,
but only in Him who was conceived of Jehovah.
Because He thought from intellectual truth,
that is, from the love or affection of intellectual truth,
from it also He desired the rational,
and this is why it is here said
that "Sarai, Abram's wife"
(by whom is meant the affection of intellectual truth) . . ..
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