Verse 3. The Divine Love and Wisdom themselves lead the mind, and will destroy the evils which oppose regeneration in the internal mind, and goods shall take their place: and Truth combating against the evil and the false is the new principle which shall guide the soul as appointed by the Lord.

9707. For this reason the Lord has provided and ordained that a person's internal man shall be opened to the extent that his thought and will spring from heaven, that is, through heaven from the Lord - opened towards heaven, all the way to the Lord Himself. And conversely, for the same reason, a person's internal man shall be closed and his external man opened to the extent that his thought and will spring from the world, that is, through the world from self - opened towards the world and towards self.