AC 3128 - Our Life Impacts Enlightenment

AC 3128 [2, 3]

. . . all good flows in by an internal way
(that is, by the way of the soul)
into a person's rational,
and through this into his faculty of knowing,
even into that which is of the senses;
and by enlightenment there
it causes truths to be seen.

. . . if the life of the natural person is such
that it does not receive the Divine good,
but either repels it, or perverts it, or suffocates it,
then the Divine good cannot be fitted in,
thus it cannot form for itself truths;
and consequently
the natural can no longer be enlightened;
for enlightenment in the natural person
is effected from good through truths;
and when there is no longer enlightenment,
there can be no reformation.