24. Concerning those who are in truths from good, thus concerning truths from good. What difference there is between the truth which leads to good, and the truth which proceeds from good, no. 2063. Truth essentially is not truth, except so far as it proceeds from good, nos. 4736, 10619; because truth has its Esse from good, nos. 3049, 3180, 4574, 5002, 9144; and its life, nos. 3111, 2434, 6077; and because truth is the form, that is, the quality of good, nos. 3049, 4574, 5951, 9154. Truth with man is altogether as good, in a like ratio and in a like degree, no. 2429. In order that truth may be truth, it must derive its essence from the good of charity and innocence, nos. 3111, 6013. The truths which are from good are spiritual truths, no. 5951. When truth proceeds from good, it makes one with it to such a degree that both together are one good, nos. 4301, 7835, 10252, 10266. The understanding and will make one mind and one life, when the understanding proceeds from the will, because the understanding is the recipient of truth, and the will, of good; but not when a man thinks and speaks otherwise than he wills, no. 3623. Truth from good is truth in will and act, nos. 4337, 4353, 4385, 4390. When truth proceeds from good, good has its image in truth, no. 3180. In the whole heaven and in the whole world, and in each single thing thereof, there is an image of marriage, nos. 54, 718, 747, 917, 1432, 2173, 2516, 5194. Especially between truth and good, nos. 1904, 2173, 2508. Because all things in the universe have, relation to truth and good, in order to be anything, and to their conjunction, in order that anything may be produced, nos. 2452, 3166, 4390, 4409, 5232, 7256, 10122, 10555. The Ancients also instituted a marriage between truth and good, no. 1904. The law of marriage is that, according to the Lord's words, two shall be one, nos. 10130, 10168, 10169. Love truly conjugial descends and exists also out of heaven, from the marriage of truth and a good, nos. 2728, 2729. A man is wise so far as he is in good, and from good in truths, but not so far is he is acquainted with truths and is not in good, nos. 3182, 3190, 4884. A man who is in truths from good, is actually raised out of the light of the world into the light of heaven, and thus out of obscurity into clearness; but conversely he is in the light of the world, and in obscurity so long as he is acquainted with truths and is not in good, nos. 3190, 3192. Again, a man does not know what good is, before he is in it and [acts] from it, nos. 3325, 3330, 3336. Truths increase immensely when they proceed from good, nos. 2846, 2847, 5345. Concerning this increase, no. 5355. This increase is like the production of fruit from a tree, and multiplication from seeds, from which arise whole gardens, nos. 1873, 2846, 2847. In the same, proportion also wisdom increases, and indeed to eternity, nos. 3200, 10314, 4220, 4221, 5527, 5859, 6663. The man also who is in truths from good is enlightened in the same proportion, and is thus in enlightenment while reading the Word, nos. 9382, 10548, 10549, 10550, 10691, 10694. The good of love is as fire, and the truth from it as the light from that fire, nos. 3195, 3222, 5400, 8644, 9399, 9548, 9684. Truths from good also shine in heaven, no. 5219. Truths from good, through which wisdom comes, increase according to the quality and quantity of the love of good: and conversely, falsities from evil increase according to the quality and quantity of the love of evil, no. 4099. The man who is in truths from good comes into angelic intelligence and wisdom, and these are hidden away in his interiors so long as he lives in the world, but are laid open in the other life, no. 2494. The man who is in truths from good becomes an angel after death, no. 8747. Truths from good are circumstanced like generations, no. 9079. They are arranged in series, nos. 5339, 5343, 5530, 7408, 10303, 10308. The orderly arrangement of truths from good compared with the fibres and blood-vessels in the body; and thus with the tissues and forms, according to the uses of life, nos. 3470, 3570, 3579, 9154. Truths from good form as it were a community, and indeed from the influx of heaven, no. 3584. Those truths are in the middle which belong to the chief love; and the rest are distant therefrom, according to the degrees of their non-agreement, nos. 3993, 4551, 4552, 5530, 6028. The opposite order prevails with the wicked, nos. 4551, 4552. When truths proceed from good, they are arranged in the form of heaven, nos. 4302, 5339, 5343, 5704, 6028, 10303; and indeed according to the order in which the angelic societies are, no. 10303. All truths when proceeding from good are conjoined with one another by a certain affinity; and they are circumstanced like families derived from one father, no. 2863. Every truth also has a sphere extending into heaven, according to the quality and quantity of the good from which it is, no. 8063. The marriage of good and truth is the Church and Heaven with man, nos. 2173, 7752, 7753, 9224, 9995, 10122. The delight and happiness of those with whom there is good in truths, no. 1470. Truths from good, when conjoined, exhibit an image of man, no. 8370. A man is nothing else than his own good, and the truth from it; or evil, and the false from it; no. 10298. A summary: Through truths there is faith, nos. 4353, 4997, 7178, 10367. Through truths there is charity towards the neighbour, nos. 4368, 7623, 7624, 8034. Through truths there is love to the Lord, nos. 10143, 10153, 10310 10578, 10645. Through truths there is conscience, nos. 1077, 2053, 9113. Through truths there is innocence, nos. 3183, 3494, 6013. Through truths there is purification from evils, nos. 2799, 5954, 7044, 7918, 9089, 10229, 10237. Through truths is regeneration, nos. 1555, 1904, 2046, 2189, 9088, 9959, 10028. Through truths come intelligence and wisdom, nos. 3182, 3190, 3387, 10064. The beauty of angels, and also of men, as to the interiors belonging to their spirits, arises through truths, nos. 553, 3080, 4985, 5199. Through truths there is power against evils and falsities, nos. 3091, 4015, 10481. Order, such as is in heaven, is through truths, nos. 3316, 3417, 3570, 5339, 5343, 5704, 6028, 10303. The Church is through truths, nos. 1798, 1799, 3963, 4468, 4672. Through truths man has heaven, nos. 1900, 9832, 9931, 10303. Through truths a man becomes a man, nos. 3175, 3387, 8370, 10298. Still all these arise through truths from good, and not through truths apart from good; and good is from the Lord, nos. 2434, 4070, 4736, 5147. All good is from the Lord, nos. 1614, 2016, 2904, 4151, 9981.