AC 7919 - "Hyssop"; AC 7920 - Natural Good and Good of the Natural

AC 7919 [1, 2]

. . . "hyssop" denotes external truth as a means of purification,
because all spiritual purification is effected by means of truths.
For the earthly and worldly loves
from which a person is to be purified,
are not recognized except by means of truths,
and when these are instilled by the Lord,
there is also instilled at the same time
horror for these loves as for things unclean and damnable,
the effect of which is
that when anything of the kind flows into the thought,
this feeling of horror returns,
and consequently aversion for such things.
Thus a person is purified by truths as by an external means.

As "hyssop" has this meaning,
it was therefore employed in cleansings,
which in the internal sense
meant purifications from falsities and evils . . ..

AC7920

Natural good is that which a person has hereditarily;
and the good of the natural
is that which he has from the Lord by regeneration.