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is, that the former thinks well concerning God, his kingdom, and spiritual life. Hence he applies the false so that it may not be against these things, but that in some manner it may agree with them; that is, he softens it, and its asperity and hardness do not come into the idea. Unless this were the case, scarce any one could be saved; for falsities are more prevalent than truths. But it is to be noted that they who are in good are also in the love of truth. Therefore in the other life, when they are instructed by the angels, they reject falsities and accept truths, and this according to the degree of the love of truth which they had in the world. (A. C. 8051.)

Many kings signify various truths which are from good. This is because the people and nations out of the church were, for the most part, in falsities as to doctrine; but still, inasmuch as they lived in love to God and in charity towards their neighbor, the falsities of their religion were accepted by the Lord as truths, because inwardly in them was the good of love; and the good of love qualifies all truth, and in such case qualifies the falsity which is believed by such to be truth. The good also which lies concealed within, causes such persons, when they come into the other life, to perceive genuine truths and receive them.

Moreover there are truths which are only appearances of truth, such as are those of the literal sense of the Word, which are also accepted by the Lord as