AC 5881, 5882 - For It Is a Wonderful Order

AC 5881

By commotion is meant a new disposition
and setting in order of truths in the natural,
concerning which setting in order
be it known that the order in which
memory-knowledges and truths are arranged
in a person's memory is unknown to them,
but when it pleases the Lord it is known to angels.
For it is a wonderful order.
They cohere as in little bundles,
and the little bundles themselves cohere together,
and this according to the connection of things
which the person had conceived.
These coherences are more wonderful
than any person can ever believe.
In the other life they are sometimes presented to view,
for in the light of heaven which is spiritual
such things can be exhibited to the sight of the eye,
but not at all in the light of the world.
The memory-knowledges and truths
are arranged into these small bundle forms
solely by the person's loves --
into infernal forms by the loves of self and of the world,
but into heavenly forms
by love toward the neighbor and love to God.
Wherefore while the person is being regenerated,
and conjunction is being effected
of the good of the internal person
with the truths of the external,
a commotion takes place among the truths,
for they then undergo a different arrangement.
It is this commotion which is here meant,
and is meant by their "being in consternation."
The commotion then made,
reveals itself by an anxiety arising
from the change of the former state, namely,
from being deprived of the delight
which had been in that state.

AC 5882

. . . when there takes place a conjunction
of the internal with the external,
or of good with truth,
there is first bestowed a capacity of perception
that the person is affected with truth and thus with good,
and that then a commotion is felt;
next that an interior communication is given
by means of influx; and so on.