12. The sixth state is when he utters truths and performs good deeds from faith and consequently from love. What he brings forth at this point are called a living creature and a beast. And because at this point he starts to act from faith and also simultaneously from love, he becomes a spiritual man, who is called an image. The spiritual life of that man finds its delight in, and is sustained by, the things which are associated with cognitions of faith and with charitable acts, which are called his food; and his natural life finds its delight in, and is sustained by, those which belong to the body and the senses. The latter give rise to conflict until love rules and he becomes a celestial man.

10763. For the Church to exist there must be teachings drawn from the Word, for without them the Word is not understood. However, teachings alone in a person do not constitute the Church in that person, but a life in accord with them. From this it follows that faith alone does not constitute the Church but the life of faith, which is charity.