Verse 2. And the whole power of the Internal shall be communicated to the External; and the External shall be prepared, by the acknowledgement of the Lord, and influx from Him through the heavens, for such worship; while the conjunction of truth with good shall be effected, and thus conjunction with the Lord.

6630. But in the course of time that ancient wisdom diminished; for to the extent that the human race departed from the good of love to the Lord and of charity towards the neighbour, so also did it depart from wisdom, since it departed from heaven to the same extent. Thus it is that from living on an internal level mankind has gradually come to live on an external one.