198. How and when Temptations take place. Spiritual combats are chiefly carried on by means of truths of faith, no. 8962. Truth is the first thing of combat, no. 1685. The men of the spiritual Church are tempted with regard to the truths of faith, wherefore they combat by truths; but the men of the celestial Church are tempted with regard to the goods of love, wherefore they combat by goods, nos. 1668, 8963. Those who are of the spiritual Church, for the most part, do not combat from genuine truths, but from such as they believe to be genuine from a doctrinal of their Church; but which doctrinal ought nevertheless to be such as to be capable of being conjoined with good, no. 6765. Whoever is regenerated must undergo temptations, and without them he cannot be regenerated, nos. 5036, 8403; wherefore temptations are necessary, no. 7090. The man who is being regenerated comes into temptations, when evil strives to gain dominion over good, and the natural man over the spiritual man, nos. 6657, 8961; and he comes into temptations when good is about to have the precedence, nos. 4248, 4249, 4256, 8962, 8963. Those who are being regenerated are first let into a state of tranquillity, then into temptations, and afterwards return into a state of tranquillity of peace, which is the end, no. 3696.