AC 9207 - Truths Perish With Those Who Do Not Long for Good

AC 9207 [1, 6]

. . . truths which are conjoined with good
always have within them a longing to do what is good,
and at the same time, to thereby
conjoin themselves more closely with good;
or what is the same,
those who are in truths always long to do what is good,
and thus to conjoin good with their truths;
and therefore those who believe themselves to be in truths
and do not long to do what is good,
are not in truths;
that is, they are not in the faith of those truths,
howsoever they may suppose themselves to be so.

When the one longs to be
reciprocally conjoined with the other,
that is, good with truth and truth with good,
they then mutually regard each other;
but when truth sunders itself from good,
then each turns away from the other,
and looks backward, or behind itself.