199. The good effected by Temptations. A summary of what is effected by temptations, nos. 1692, 1717, 1740, 6144, 8958-8969. Dominion is acquired through temptations for the spiritual or internal man over the natural or external man, and consequently for good over evil, and truth over falsity; for in the spiritual man there is good, without which the spiritual man has no being, and in the natural man there is evil, no. 8961. Since temptation means the combat between these, therefore dominion is the object of the strife, namely, whether the spiritual man shall have dominion over the natural man, and thus whether good shall have dominion over evil, or conversely; and, consequently whether the Lord or hell shall have dominion over man, nos. 1923, 3928. The external, that is, the natural man, through temptations, receives truths which correspond to the affection thereof in the internal, that is, in the spiritual man, nos. 3321, 3928. The internal spiritual man is opened, and conjoined with the external man, through temptations, in order that the man as to both may be capable of being elevated, and of looking to the Lord, no. 10685. The reason why the internal spiritual man is opened and conjoined with the external through temptations, is, that the Lord acts from the interior, and from it flows into the external man, and therein removes and subjugates evils, and together therewith subjects the external man, and renders it subordinate to the internal, no. 10685. Temptations are for the sake of the conjunction of good and truth, and for the sake of the dispersion of the falsities which adhere to truths and goods, no. 4572. Through temptations, consequently, good is conjoined with truths, no. 2272. The vessels receptive of truth are softened through temptations, and put on a state in which they are capable of receiving good, no. 3318. Truths and goods, and thus the things belonging to faith and charity, are confirmed and implanted through temptations, nos. 8351, 8924, 8966, 8967; and evils and falsities are removed, and room is thus afforded to goods and truths, no. 7122. The loves of self and of the world, from which spring all evils and falsities, are broken through temptations, no. 5356; and the man is thus humbled, nos. 8966, 8967. Evils and falsities are subdued, separated, and removed, but not abolished, through temptations, no. 868. Corporeal things with their concupiscences are subdued through temptations, nos. 857, 868. A man through them learns what good and truth are, even from their relation to their opposites, which are evils and falsities, no. 5356. He also learns that with himself there is nothing but evil, and that all the good which is with him, is from the Lord and His Mercy, no. 2334. Through the temptations in which a man conquers, evil spirits are deprived of the power of operating further against him, nos. 1695, 1717. The hells do not dare to rise up against those who have suffered temptations and have conquered, nos. 2183, 8273. After the temptations in which a man has conquered, there is joy arising from the conjunction of good and truth, although the man does not know that the joy proceeds therefrom, nos. 4572, 6829. There exists then enlightenment of the truth which belongs to faith, and a perception of the good which belongs to love, nos. 8367, 8370. From it a man has intelligence and wisdom, nos. 8966, 8967. After temptations, truths increase immensely, no. 6663; and good then has the precedence, that is, holds the first place, and truth the second, no. 5773. As to his internal spiritual man, the man is admitted into angelic societies, and thus into heaven, no. 6611. Before a man undergoes temptations, truths with goods are arranged with him in order by the Lord, so that he may resist the evils and falsities which are with him from hell, and which are being stirred up, no. 8131. In temptations the Lord provides good in place of the evil which is intended by infernal spirits, no. 6574. After temptations the Lord reduces truths with goods into a new order, and arranges them into a heavenly form, no, 10685. The interiors of the spiritual man are arranged into a heavenly form; see in the work on Heaven and Hell, the. chapter on "The Form of Heaven, according to which the consociations and communications therein take place," nos. 200-212. Those who fall in temptations come into damnation, because evils and falsities are victorious, and the natural man prevails over the spiritual man, and afterwards has dominion: the latter state then becomes worse than the former, nos. 8165, 8169, 8961.