AC 3571 - Are you being regenerated?

AC 3571 [2]
... A person knows nothing of how he is regenerated,
and scarcely that he is being regenerated.
But if he is desirous to know this,
let him merely pay attention to the ends which he proposes to himself,
and which he rarely discloses to any one.
If the ends are toward good, that is to say,
if he cares more for his neighbor and the Lord than for himself,
then he is in a state of regeneration;
but if the ends are toward evil, that is to say,
if he cares more for himself than for his neighbor and the Lord,
let him know that in this case he is in no state of regeneration.

AC 3540 - good and truth need each other

AC 3540
Every good has its own truths,
and every truth has its own good,
which must be conjoined together
in order for them to be anything.

AC 3533 - seeing

AC 3533
... the natural sees from the effect,
but the rational sees from the cause.

AC 3509 - Isaac, Rebekah, Esau, Jacob

AC 3509 [2-3]
... "Isaac" is the rational mind as to the good
which is of the will,
"Rebekah" being the rational mind with respect to the truth
which is of the understanding;
"Esau" is the good of the natural
that comes forth from the good of the rational;
and "Jacob" is the truth of the natural
that comes forth from the good of the rational through the truth therein.

From these things it may be seen what arcana are contained
in the internal sense of the Word;
but still there are very few which can be described
to human understanding;
while those which transcend it, and cannot be described, are without limit;
for in proportion as the Word penetrates more deeply,
that is, more interiorly, into heaven,
the more innumerable and indescribable the arcana become,
not only to man,
but also to the angels of the lower heaven;
and when it reaches the inmost heaven,
the angels there perceive that the arcana are infinite,
and are altogether incomprehensible to them,
because they are Divine.
Such is the Word.

AC 3490 - all good & truth

AC 3490
... all the good and truth in one who is regenerate are from the Lord.

The whole number, which is a very brief review, is quoted in comments.

AC 3474 - Where is heaven?

AC 3474
...heaven is not in what is high,
but in what is internal.

AC 3471 - Why is there grief first?

AC 3471
The reason why there was grief at first,
is that when truths are being inserted into natural good,
they at first cause pain,
for they oppress the conscience,
and induce anxieties,
because there are concupiscences (lust or cravings) present,
against which spiritual truth combats;
but this first grief by degrees diminishes,
and at last vanishes away.
It is as with a weak and sickly body,
which is to be restored to health by painful means;
in this state, at first it has grief.

AC 3464 - living in correspondence

AC 3464 [2]
As regards the doctrinal things that are from the literal sense of the Word, the case is this:
When a man is in them,
and at the same time in a life according to them,
he has a correspondence in himself;
for the angels who are with him are in interior truths,
while he is in exterior ones,
and thus through the doctrinal things he has communication with heaven,
but according to the good of his life.

As for example, when in the Holy Supper
he thinks in simplicity of the Lord
from the words then used -
"This is My body, and this is My blood" -
the angels with him are in the idea of love to the Lord
and charity toward the neighbor;
for love to the Lord corresponds to the Lord's body, and to bread;
and charity toward the neighbor corresponds to the blood, and the wine;
and because there is such a correspondence,
there flows an affection out of heaven through the angels
into that holy state in which the man then is,
which affection he receives in accordance with the good of his life.

AC 3447 - the external & internal of the church

AC 3447 [2]
As in every church of the Lord
there are those who are internal people
and those who are external,
and the internal are those who are in the affection of good,
and the external those who are in the affection of truth...

AC 3436 - reading the Word in order to be wise

AC 3436
... he who reads the Word in order to be wise,
that is, to do what is good and understand what is true,
is instructed according to his end and affection;
for unknown to him
the Lord flows in
and enlightens his mind,
and where he is at a loss,
gives understanding from other passages.

AC 3427 - What does the internal sense of the Word teach us?

AC 3427
... for the word in its internal sense treats of nothing else

than love to the Lord and love toward the neighbor;

and therefore the Lord says

that on these two commandments hang the Law and the Prophets,

that is, the whole Word.

AC 3419 - What is charity? Who is our neighbor?

AC 3419 [3]
... charity is the affection of being of service to others without any end of recompense;
and also what is the neighbor toward whom there should be charity,
namely, all in the universe,
but still each with discrimination.

[6]
... in the supreme sense the Lord is the neighbor,
for He says:
Inasmuch as you did it unto one of the least of these My brothers,
you did it unto Me.
Matthew 25:40

AC 3411 - fill with dust

AC 3411
And all the wells that his father's servants digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped them up, and filled them with dust.
(Genesis 15)
"And all the wells that his father's servants digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped them up,"
signifies that they who were in the memory-knowledge of knowledges
were not willing to know interior truths which are from the Divine,
and thus obliterated them:
"and filled them with dust"
signifies by earthly things....

AC 3404 - thinking about eternity

AC 3404 [2]
A person cannot possibly have any idea of the eternal except from time;
and this being the case,
he cannot possibly comprehend what is from eternity,
thus what the Divine was before time, or before the world was created.
And so long as there is in his thought anything of an idea from time,
if he thinks on the subject
he must necessarily fall into errors from which he cannot be extricated.
But to the angels, who are not in the idea of time, but in the idea of state,
it is given to perceive this most clearly,
for the eternal with them is not the eternal of time,
but the eternal of state without the idea of time.

AC 3387 - Why are there appearances of truths?

AC 3387 [2]
Truths or appearances of truth are given a person to the intent that
Divine good may be able to form his understanding,
thus the person himself.
For truths exist to the end that good may flow in;
for without vessels or receptacles
good finds no place, because it finds no state corresponding to itself;
and therefore where there are no truths,
or where they are not received,
there is no rational or human good,
consequently the person has no spiritual life.
In order therefore that a person may nevertheless have truths,
and thereby have spiritual life,
appearances of truth are given to every one according to his understanding;
which appearances are acknowledged as truths,
because they are such that Divine things can be in them.

AC 3382 - And kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws. (Genesis 26:5)

AC 3382
..."keeping My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws,"
involve all things of the Word; namely,
"charge," all things of the Word in general;
"commandments," the internal things;
"statutes," the external things;
and "laws," all things specifically.

The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul;
the testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple.
The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes.
The fear of Jehovah is clean, standing forever;
the judgments of Jehovah are truth and righteous altogether.
(Psalm 19:7-9)

AC 3380 - "being blessed"

AC 3380
... the signification of "being blessed,"
as being to be made fruitful in good
and to be multiplied in truths....

AC 3364 - doctrinal things

AC 3364
... there is no doctrinal thing,
nor the smallest part of one,
that is not from the Lord,
because the Lord is doctrine itself.
Hence it is that the Lord is called the "Word,"
because the "Word" is doctrine...

AC 3342 - what are we?

AC 3342
... a person is a spirit clothed with a body ...

AC 3330 - the spiritual person in the beginning

AC 3330
That in the spiritual person, in the beginning truth, has the dominion,
is chiefly because in his first state there are delights
of the love of self and of the world which he believes to be good,
and which apply themselves to his truths,
and for the most part produce the affection of truth in him;
for he thinks that truths may be serviceable to him
either for honor, or for gain, or for reputation in the world,
or even for merit in the other life.
All these things excite this affection of truth in him,
and also enkindle it;
and yet they are not good, but evil.

Nevertheless the Lord permits
that such things should influence him in that first time,
because otherwise he could not be regenerated.
Intelligence and wisdom come in time;
in the meanwhile
through these truths the person is introduced into good,
that is, into charity;
and when he is in this,
then for the first time
he perceives what is good, and acts from good,
and then judges and draws conclusions from this good concerning truths;
and those which do not accord with this good he calls false, and rejects.
Thus he rules over truths as a master over his servants.