AE 433a - being in heaven

AE 433a [2]
... no one is in heaven, or comes to it, unless he acknowledges the Lord and loves Him. To love the Lord is not to love Him in respect to person but to live according to His commandments...

In that day you shall know that I am in My Father,
and you are in Me, and I in you.
He that has My commandments and does them,
he it is that loves Me.
If any one loves Me he will keep My words;
and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him
and make Our abode with Him.
He that loves Me not keeps not My words.
(John 14: 20,21,23,24)

AE 430c - loaves & fishes

AE 430c [15]
... "twelve" signifies all things...

The twelve baskets of fragments that remained
from the five loaves and two fishes with which the Lord fed
five thousand men besides women and children.
(Matthew 14:15-21; Mark 6:34-44; Luke 9:12-17; John 6:9-13)

Each particular here, with the numbers themselves, is significative;
"The five thousand men besides women and children,"
signify all who are of the church that are in truths from good;
the "men" signifying those who are in truths,
and the "women and children" those who are in good;
"loaves" the goods and
"fishes" the truths of the natural man;
"eating" spiritual nourishment from the Lord;
the "twelve baskets of fragments"
the knowledges of truth and good therefrom in all abundance and fullness.

AE 427b - the good of love is

AE 427b [9]
...for as the good of love is heavenly, and thence mild, patient, and modest,
so the evil opposite to that good is infernal, hard, stubborn, and shameless.

AE 423 - "the living God"

AE 423
...the Lord is called "the living God" from the Divine love,
for love is man's very life,
and the Divine love is the source of the life of all.

AE 422a - "And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun"

AE 422a
And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun (Rev. 7:2),
signifies the Divine love going forth from the Lord.

This is evident from the signification of "angel,"
as being something Divine proceeding from the Lord;
for "angel" in the Word means,
in the nearest sense, an entire angelic society,
but in a general sense "angel"
signifies every one who receives Divine truth in doctrine and life;
while in the highest sense "angel"
signifies something Divine proceeding from the Lord,
and in particular Divine truth...
"the rising of the sun" or the "east" signifying the Lord's Divine love,
and "to ascend therefrom" signifying to go forth and proceed;
so here "the angel ascending from the rising of the sun"
signifies the Divine love going forth from the Lord.

AE 419f - portions of Psalm 107

AE 419f [23]
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do work in many waters.
And He spoke, and made the wind of the tempest to stand,
and He raised up its waves on high.
He made the tempest to stand still,
and that their waves might be hushed.
(Psalm 107:23, 25, 29)

This treats of temptations and of the deliverance from them.
"The wind of the tempest," and thus
"the waves of the sea lifted up," signify temptations;
and as spiritual temptations come through falsities breaking into the thoughts,
which is the source of remorse of conscience and grief of mind and spirit,
these are signified by "the wind of the tempest stood,
and He raised up its waves on high;"
deliverance from them is signified by
"He made the tempest to stand still, that the waves might be hushed."

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20107&version=31

AE 419a - two lives

AE 419a [2]
For there are two lives, which should make one in man,
the life of truth and the life of good;
the life of truth is the life of man's understanding,
while the life of good is the life of his will;
for truths have their seat in the understanding
because these constitute the understanding,
while goods have their seat in the will
because these constitute the will.
"Soul and heart," in the Word,
when mentioned together, have a similar significance.

AE 417a - "corners"

AE 417a [4]
... "corners" signify all things, since they are outermost parts, for the outermost parts comprehend all things from the center to the last circumferences, for they are the last borders. They is why four horns were placed on the four corners of the altar....

[5]
... the ultimates must be preserved because they signify all things; for unless there are outermost things, the middle things are not kept together, but are dispersed, comparatively as the interior parts of man would be dispersed if he were not encompassed by skins.

AE 413b - feet signify the natural

AE 413b [5]
...the heavens rest upon the church which is with mankind as a man does upon his feet.

AE 412e - "Behold I stand at the door and knock"

AE 412e [20]
Behold I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear My voice and open the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him. Revelation 3:20

But when man from freedom chooses evil he shuts the door to himself, and thus does not let in the good and truth that are from the Lord; consequently the Lord then appears to be absent. It is from this appearance that it is said that Jehovah conceals and hides His faces, although He does not conceal and hide. Moreover man as to his spirit then turns away from the Lord, and consequently does not perceive the good or see the truth, which are from the Lord; this is why it appears as if the Lord did not see him; and yet the Lord sees each and every thing pertaining to man. It is from this appearance also that the Lord is said to conceal and hide His faces, and also is said to set His faces against them, and also that He regards them with the back of the nick and not with the faces....

AE 412c - "faces of Jehovah"

AE 412c [11]
Because the "faces of Jehovah," or of the Lord, signify the Divine good united to Divine truth going out and proceeding from His Divine love, therefore also, "the faces of Jehovah" signify the interiors of the church, of the Word, and of worship, for Divine good is in the interior of these; the exteriors of the church, of the Word, and of worship are only the effects and works therefrom.

AE 411e - studying the Word

AE 411e [23]

...those who love truth and good from the Word are within the Word, for they look at it not from self, but from the Lord.

AE 411c - building your house on a rock

AE 411c [11]
Every one that hears My words and does them, I will liken him to a prudent man, who built his house upon a rock; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, yet it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock. (Matthew 7:24.25; Luke 6:48)

"The house founded upon a rock" means the church and the man of the church who has founded his doctrine and life upon the Divine truth, which is from the Lord, thus upon those things that are in the Word, consequently one who is in truths from good from the Lord. It is said, "who is in truths from good," because Divine truth is not received by any one who is not in good. To be in good is to be in the good of life, which is charity, therefore it is said "he that hears My words and does them;" "doing the Lord's words" is the good of life, for truth, when a man does it, becomes good because it then enters the will and love, is called good. Temptations, in which such a man of the church does not fall but conquers, are signified by "the rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew, and beat upon the house, and yet it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock;" for in the Word "floods of waters" and "rains," and also "tempests of wind," signify temptations.

AE 410c - those in the good of innocence

AE 410c [9]
...those who are in the good of innocence and in the good of love to the Lord have no fear whatever of evils and falsities which are from hell, because they are protected by the Lord.

AE 409b - "My servant", "My chosen"

AE 409b [2]

Behold My servant, on whom I lean, My chosen, in whom My soul is well pleased; I have given My spirit upon Him. [He shall bring forth judgment to the nations]. Who is blind but my servant? or deaf as My angel that I send? Who is blind as He that is perfect, and blind as My servant? Isaiah 42: 1, 19

This is said of the Lord, who is treated of in the whole of this chapter,
and the Lord in respect to His Divine Human is here called "a servant,"
because He served His Father by doing His will,
as He frequently declares;
and this means that He reduced to order all thing in the spiritual world,
and at the same time taught men the way to heaven.
Therefore by "My servant on whom I lean," and by "My chosen, in whom My soul is well pleased,"
the Divine Human is meant;
and this is called "a servant" from the Divine truth by which it produced effects,
and "chosen" from the Divine good....
He is called "blind" and "deaf" because the Lord is as if He did not see and perceive the sins of men,
for He leads men gently, bending and not breaking,
thus leading away from evils and leading to good;
therefore He does not chastise and punish,
like one who sees and perceives.

AE 408 - wisdom, intelligence, knowledge

AE 408
Wisdom differs from intelligence in this,
that wisdom is from the light of heaven,
and intelligence from the light of the world enlightened by the light of heaven;
this is why wisdom is predicated of spiritual goods and truths,
and intelligence of natural goods and truths....
He who believes that intelligence is from the light of the world only,
which is called natural light, is much deceived.
Intelligence means seeing from oneself truths and goods,
whether civil, moral, or spiritual,
while seeing them from another is not intelligence but knowledge....

AE 406a - our mind

AE 460a
There are with man two minds, one higher or interior which is called the spiritual mind, and the other lower or exterior which is called the natural mind. The natural mind is first opened and cultivated with men, because this most nearly stands forth in the world; and afterwards the spiritual mind is opened and cultivated, but only to the extent that man receives in the life the truths or ... doctrine from the Word; consequently with those who do not apply knowledges to life, it is not opened. But when the spiritual mind is opened the light of heaven flows in through that mind into the natural mind and enlightens it, whereby the natural mind becomes spiritual-natural....

Because the mind makes the man (the mind consisting of understand and will) it is the same whether you say the mind or the man, thus whether you say the spiritual and natural mind or the spiritual and natural man.

AE 405i - "the faith of God"

AE 405i [53]
Jesus said unto the disciples, Have the faith of God...
(Mark 11:22; Matthew 17:20)

...the Lord said this of saving faith, which faith makes one with charity and is wholly from the Lord, therefore the Lord calls this faith "the faith of God;" and because it is by this faith, which is the faith of charity from Him, that the Lord removes all evils flowing from the loves of self and the world and casts them into hell from which they came...

AE 405d - the Mount of Olives

AE 405d [24]
Because "the Mount of Olives" which was before Jerusalem eastward,
signified the Divine love,
and "Jerusalem from the east"
Divine truth proceeding from Divine good, as was said above,
the Lord was accustomed to stay on that mount...:

Jesus during the days was teaching in the temple;
but at night He went out and lodged in the mount
that is called the Mount of Olives.
(Luke 21:37; 22:39; John 8:1)

...He did all things from the Divine love,
the "the Mount of Olives" signified that love...

AE 405b - Rejoice!

AE 405b [11]
Praise Jehovah, mountains and hills, tree of fruit, and all cedars.
(Psalm 148:7,9)
This describes the joy of heart from the good of love and charity;
and "mountains," "hills," "trees," and "cedars,"
are said to "break forth with singing aloud" "to clap the hand," and "to praise,"
because these signify the goods and truths that cause joys in man;
for man does not rejoice from himself,
but from the goods and truths that are with him;
these rejoice because they make joy for man.

AE 404 - "And the heaven departed as a book rolled up"

AE 404 Revelation 6:14
And the heaven departed as a book rolled up,
signifies that the spiritual man became closed up.
This is evident from the signification of "heaven,"
as being the church in general and in particular;
for the church is the heaven of the Lord on earth;
moreover the church makes one with heaven by conjunction;
therefore when "heaven and earth" are mentioned in the Word,
the church internal and external is meant,
for the internal of the men of the church is heaven with them,
and their external is the world with them.

AE 403a - the olive tree, the vine, & the fig tree

AE 4003a [2]
... in heaven
gardens and paradises are seen,
where there are trees of every kind,
and each tree signifies something of the Divine
that is communicated to angels by the Lord.
In general,
"the olive" signifies the celestial, which is the good of love;
"the vine" the spiritual, which is the truth from that good;
and "the fig tree," the natural,
which is derived from the spiritual or the celestial.

AE 401f - "the feast of the passover"

AE 401f [29]
For "the feast of the passover" signified the celebration of the Lord on account of deliverance from damnation, which is effected by regeneration; and in the highest sense a remembrance of the glorification of the Lord's Human, because deliverance is from that.

AE 401d - when the Lord was on the cross

AE 401d [15]
... the sun was darkened when the Lord was upon the cross, because He was entirely rejected by the church that then was with the Jews, who were consequently in dense darkness, or in falsities.

At the sixth hour darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour, for the sun was darkened. (Luke 23: 44,45)

That "darkness came over all the land"
signified that with those who were of the church there was nothing except the falsities of evil...
that it continued for three hours, namely,
"from the sixth to the ninth hour,"
signifies that there remained mere falsity, and no truth whatever,
for "three" signifies full, whole and entirely...
"and the darkness came, and the sun was darkened;"
the sun" that was obscured, meaning the Lord,
who is said to be "obscured" when falsities so prevail in the church that He is not acknowledged,
and evils so prevail that He is crucified.

AE 400d - the two earthquakes Easter weekend

AE 400d [14]
It is recorded also in the Word that there was an earthquake when the Lord suffered upon the cross, and also when the angel descended and rolled away the stone from the mouth of the sepulchre; and each of these earthquakes signified a change in the state of the church. Of the earthquake that occurred when the Lord suffered it is written:

The veil in the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks were rent. The centurion and they that were with him guarding Jesus, seeing the earthquake and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God. (Matthew 27:51, 54)

And of the earthquake that occurred when the angel descended and rolled away the stone from the mouth of the sepulchre it is said:

When Mary Magdalene came and the other Mary to see the sepulchre, and behold, there was a great earthquake; for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and coming, rolled away the stone from the mouth, and sat upon on. (Matthew 28:1-2)

These earthquakes occurred to indicate that the state of the church was then changed; for the Lord by His last temptation, which He endured in Gethsemane and upon the cross, conquered the hells, and put in order all things there and in the heavens, and also glorified His Human, that is made it Divine....

"The angel rolled away the stone from the mouth and sat upon it" signifies that the Lord removed all the falsity that had shut off access to Him, and that He opened Divine truth, "the Stone" signifying the Divine truth which the Jews had falsified by their tradition...

AE 395e - Isaiah 61:10

AE 395e [12]
I will rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall exult in my God;
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;
He has covered me with the robe or righteousness. (Isaiah 61:10)

"To rejoice in Jehovah" signifies to rejoice in Divine good;
"to exult in God" signifies to exult in Divine truth;
for the Lord is called "Jehovah" from Divine good,
and "God" from Divine truth,
and from these is all spiritual joy.
"To clothe with the garments of salvation"
signifies to instruct and to gift with truths;
and "to cover with the robe of righteousness"
signifies to fill with every truth from good,
"robe" meaning all truth, because it means truth in general,
and "righteousness" is predicated of good.

AE 395a - "a white robe"

AE 395a
Rev. 6:11
And white robes were given to every one of them,
..."a white robe" signifies Divine truth from the Lord.

AE 392b - a life of love & charity

AE 392b [4]
... the Word in each and every particular testifies respecting the Lord; for in its inmost sense it treats of the Lord alone, and in its internal sense of the celestial and spiritual things that proceed from the Lord, and in particular the Lord testifies respecting Himself in every one who is in the life of love and charity; for the Lord flows into their heart and life and teaches them, especially respecting His Divine Human; for He grants to those who are in a life of love to think of God under the human form, and God under the human form is the Lord.

... a life of love and charity is the Divine life itself; for the Lord loves every one, and does good to every one from love...

AE 392a - How to understand the Divine proceeding

AE 392a [2]
About every angel there is a sphere that is called the sphere of his life;
this spreads abroad to a great distance from him.
This sphere flows out or proceeds from the life of his affection or love;
it is therefore an extension outside of him of such life as is in him.
This extension is effected by means of the spiritual atmosphere or aura,
which is the aura of heaven. By means of that sphere,
the quality of an angel in respect to affection is perceived at a distance by others....
But about the Lord there is a Divine sphere,
which near Him appears as a sun, which is His Divine love,
and from this that sphere proceeds into the whole heaven and fills it
and constitutes the light that is there;
this sphere is the Divine proceeding from the Lord,
which in its essence is Divine truth.
This comparison with angels is made as an illustration to show
that the Divine proceeding from the Lord is the Lord Himself,
because it is a proceeding of His love....

AE 391h - faith separated from charity

AE 391h [29]
... worship, in so far as it is separated from charity, is no worship,
for in it the mouth speaks apart from the understanding and the will,
that is apart from the mind;
apart from the understanding, because they say that men ought to believe
even though they do not understand;
and apart from the will because they put aside deeds or goods of charity.

AE 391c - "the altar"

AE 391c [10]
As "the altar" signifies in the highest sense the Lord's Divine Human, "altar" therefore signifies also heaven and the church; for the angelic heaven, viewed in itself, is from the Divine that proceeds from the Lord's Divine Human; from this it is that the angelic heaven in the whole complex is as one man; wherefore that heaven is called the Greatest Man...

AE 391a - worship

AE 390a [2]
Worship means not external worship only, but also internal worship;
and internal worship comprehends everything of love and everything of faith,
thus everything that constitutes the church or heaven with man,
in a word, that causes the Lord to be with him.

AE 388a - wild beasts destroy the church with man

AE 388a
And the wild beasts of the earth, signifies the evils of life, which are lusts and falsities therefrom springing from the love of self and of the world, which devastate all things of the church with man.

It is said the church with man, because the church is in man, for the church is a church from charity and faith, and these are in man; and if these are not in him, the church is not with him. It is believed that the church is where the Word is, and where the Lord is known; but still the church consists of those only who from the heart acknowledge the Divine of the Lord, and who learn truths from the Lord by the Word and do them; others do not constitute the church.