AC 4131 - The Process - for the Lord, for Us

AC 4131

The Lord's Divine rational was born
of the Divine truth itself conjoined with the Divine good.
The Divine rational is Isaac,
who was born to Abraham (who here is the Divine good)
of Sarah who here is the Divine truth . . ..
The rational of the Lord alone was thus born Divine,
and indeed from Himself;
for the veriest being of the Lord was Jehovah
or the Divine good itself;
and the veriest being of the Lord from this
was of Jehovah or was the Divine truth itself.
The Divine good in the rational, which is "Isaac,"
was thus born;
and this was not good separate from truth,
but was Divine good with Divine truth;
and yet both together are called good in the rational,
with which was to be conjoined truth
from the natural man, which truth is "Rebekah."
In order that the Lord might make His human Divine,
both as to good and as to truth,
and this by the ordinary way,
it could not be done otherwise;
for such is the Divine order,
according to which is all regeneration,
and thus according to which
was the Lord's glorification.

. . . For the ordinary way
is that instruction must precede,
and that influx takes place
to the degrees of instruction;
and that truth
continually comes into existence from there,
which is initiated,
and is afterwards conjoined
with the good of the rational.
From all this it may be seen
what is the nature of the arcana (secrets)
that are contained in the internal sense of the Word;
and that these arcana are such
as to be scarcely understood by a person
even as to their most general things;
and yet that they are evident to the angels,
together with innumerable particulars
which can never be uttered in words.