AC 6396 - The First Truth

AC 6396

For with the person who is being regenerated by the Lord
the case is this.
He is first in truth
and not in any good of life from truth;
next he is in the good of life from truth,
but not yet from good;
afterward, when he has been regenerated,
he is in the good of life from good,
and he then perceives truth from good,
and multiplies it in himself;
these are the degrees of regeneration.
By "Dan" are meant those
who are in the good of life from truth,
but not yet from good;
the good with them as yet lies deeply hidden in truth,
and gives them the affection of truth,
and impels them to live according to truth.
Those who are such are in the Lord's kingdom;
but as they do not do good from good,
but from truth,
that is, not from a new will,
but from the intellectual,
and thus not from love,
but from obedience
because it is so commanded,
those are therefore among those in the Lord's kingdom
who are in the first or ultimate heaven.