others for the reason that they have received and continue to receive
Divine truths at once in their life. For as soon as they hear Divine
truths, they will and do them, instead of storing them up in the
memory and afterwards considering whether they are true. They know at
once by influx from the Lord whether the truth they hear is true; for
the Lord flows directly into man's willing, but mediately through his
willing into his thinking. Or what is the same, the Lord flows
directly into good, but mediately through good into truth.{1} That is
called good which belongs to the will and action therefrom, while
that is called truth that belongs to the memory and to the thought
therefrom. Moreover, every truth is turned into good and implanted in
love as soon as it enters into the will; but so long as truth remains
in the memory and in the thought therefrom it does not become good,
nor does it live, nor is it appropriated to man, since man is a man
from his will and understanding therefrom, and not from his
understanding separated from his will.{2}

{Footnote 1} The Lord's influx is into good and through good
into truth, and not the reverse; thus into the will and through
that into the understanding, and not the reverse (n. 5482,
5649, 6027, 8685, 8701, 10153).

{Footnote 2} The will of man is the very being [esse] of his
life, and the receptacle of the good of love, while his
understanding is the outgo [existere] of his life therefrom,
and the receptacle of the truth and good of faith (n. 3619,
5002, 9282). Thus the will's life is the chief life of man, and
the life of the understanding goes forth therefrom (n. 585,
590, 3619, 7342, 8885, 9282, 10076, 10109, 10110). Whatever is
received by the will comes to be the life, and is appropriated