Verse 1. And in that state perception is given to the spiritual faculties of the soul from the Lord, that the soul must, as it were from itself, prepare the heart to learn and carry out the truths of the Word which would conjoin it to the Lord, as perceived in the former state, and that the higher faculties must ascend into a state of love to the Lord, and seek help from Him, and thus acquire in the inmost soul a new regenerate will for good, receptive of genuine truth from the Lord.