AE 701e - good flows into truths

AE 701e [32]
... "covenant", where the Lord is treated of,
signifies conjunction through Divine truth.
There is indeed, a conjunction with Him through the good of love;
but because the Lord flows in with man through good into truths,
whereby man has the affection of truth,
and receives the Lord's good in truths,
from which he acknowledges, confesses, and worships the Lord...

AE 700g - Divine truth inscribed on their hearts

AE 700g [34]
... the adytum in the temple, like as in the Tent of meeting where the ark was, represented the Lord in relation to Divine truth, and thence the third heaven, where angels are conjoined to the Lord by love to Him, and consequently have Divine truth inscribed on their hearts.

AE 700f - man progresses

AE 700f [27]
... the man of the church progresses from the natural to the spiritual,
and through that to the celestial,
and this continually from the Lord by means of His Divine truth;
the natural is the good of life,
the spiritual is the good of charity towards the neighbor,
and the celestial is the good of love to the Lord.

AE 700c - the Lord alone

AE 700c
... the Lord alone removes and scatters the falsities of evil that are from hell,
and by His Divine truths introduces the faithful into the church and into heaven...

AE 696d - spiritual fear, natural fear

AE 696d [23]
... spiritual fear is a holy fear that abides within every spiritual love variously according to the quality and the quantity of the love. In such fear is the spiritual man, and he knows that the Lord does not do evil to anyone, much less does He destroy any one as to body and soul in Gehenna, but that He does good to all and desires to raise up every one as to body and soul into heaven to Himself. This is why the the fear of the spiritual man is a holy fear lest by the evil of life and the falsity of doctrine man should turn away, and thus do harm to that Divine love in himself.

But natural fear is a fearfulness, dread, and terror of dangers and punishments, and thus of hell; this fear abides within every corporeal love, also variously according to the quality and quantity of the love. The natural man who has such fear does not know otherwise than that the Lord does evil to the evil, condemns them, casts them into hell, and punishes them, and on this account such persons are in fear and dread of the Lord.

[24]
... "fear" has reference to the spiritual man, and "dread" to the natural man. That the spiritual man may not be in such fear as the natural man is in, it is said "Fear not."

Fear not, O Jacob, My servant,
and be not dismayed, O Israel,
for I will save the from afar;
Jacob shall be tranquil and quiet,
none shall make him afraid.
(Jeremiah 30:9, 10)

AE 696a - all are saved

AE 696a
... in the measure that a man knows the truths of faith
and lives according to them
does he worship the Lord,
for worship is not from man
but from the truths from good that are with man,
since these are from the Lord, and the Lord is in them.


... all are saved who fear God and live in mutual love,
in uprightness of heart and in sincerity from a religious principle,
for all such, by an intuitive faith in God and by a life of charity,
are consociated as to their souls with the angels of heaven,
and are thus conjoined to the Lord and saved.

AE 695c - "the seed of peace"

Now the seed of peace,
the vine shall give its fruit,
and the land shall give its produce,
and the heavens shall give their dew. (Zechariah 8:12)

AE 695c [13]
"The seed of peace" signifies the truth of heaven and the church,
which is from the Lord;
this is called "the seed of peace"
because it defends from the hells and gives security.
"The vine shall give fruit and the land produce"
signifies that the spiritual affection of truth
shall bring forth the good of charity,
and the natural affection of good and truth
shall bring forth the works of charity;
"vine" signifying the church in respect to the spiritual affection of truth,
"land" the church in respect to the natural affection of truth,
"fruit" the good of charity,
and "produce" the works of that good.
"the heavens shall give dew"
signifies that these things are from influx through heaven from the Lord.

AE 695a - "servants of the Lord"

AE 695a
... those are called "servants of the Lord" who are in truths,
because truths are serviceable for
bringing forth, confirming, and preserving good,
and whatever serves good serves the Lord,
since every good is from the Lord.

AE 689 - Divine omnipotence and Divine order

AE 689 [2]
Because it is of the Divine omnipotence to lead one
who wishes to be led according to order
... it is not of the Divine omnipotence to save those
who are not willing to be led according to order,
for to be led according to order is to be led according to the laws of order,
and the laws of order are the precepts of doctrine and life from the Word;
it is therefore of the Divine omnipotence to lead a man who is willing to be led
according to these every moment and continually to eternity.

AE 685 - "to reign"

AE 685 [3]
... "to reign" belongs to the Lord alone, and when it is said of men,
it means to be in truths from good from the Lord,
and to have power therefrom to resist the falsities from evil.

AE 684c - Psalm 132:7-9 which is part of a loved hymn

AE 684c [27-28]
"We will go into His habitations,
we will bow ourselves at His footstool.
Arise, O Jehovah, to Thy rest,
Thou and the ark of Thy strength.
Let Thy priests be clothed with righteousness,
and let Thy saints shout for joy" (Psalm 132:7-9)

"We will go into His habitations, we will bow ourselves at His footstool'"
signifies that there He is found, for He is the Word;
"His habitations" here mean the things of the spiritual sense of the Word,
and thus the heavens, for these are in the spiritual sense of the Word,
and "His footstool" means the things of the natural sense of the Word,
and therefore the church,
since in the church are Divine truths in their ultimates,
which serve as a footstool for the spiritual things of the Word
and of the heavens, thus for the Lord Himself who dwells there.

"Arise, O Jehovah, to Thy rest, Thou and the ark of Thy strength,"
signifies the union of the Divine itself with the Human in the Lord,
and consequent peace to all in heaven and the church,
"Jehovah's rest" meaning that union,
and "the ark of His strength" heaven and the church;

Let Thy priests be clothed with righteousness,
and let Thy saints shout for joy,"
signifies worship from love for those who are in celestial good,
and worship from charity for those who are in spiritual good,
"Priests" meaning those who are in the Lord's celestial kingdom,
while those who are in His spiritual kingdom are called "saints."

AE 684a - "See that no one lead you astray"

AE 684a [7]
See that no one lead you astray: for many shall come in My name,
says, I am the Christ, and shall lead many astray.
If any one shall say to you, Lo, here is the Christ, or there, believe it not;
for there shall arise fall Christs and false prophets.
(John 24:4,5,23,24; Mark 13:21-23)

This must not be understood as meaning that there will arise those who will call themselves the Christ or Christs, but those who will falsity the Word, and declare that this or that is Divine truth when it is not.

AE 678 - the glory of the Lord

AE 678 [2]
That the glory of the Lord can be seen from this, that the light of heaven, from which is all wisdom, beauty, and magnificence in the heavens, proceeds from the Lord as a sun, and it is the Lord's Divine love that appears to the angels as a sun. From this it is clear that the light of heaven, which in its essence is Divine truth and Divine wisdom, is the Divine love proceeding; and as love desires nothing else than to give that which is its own to another, thus to fill others with blessedness, what will not the Divine love do? Nevertheless, the Lord cannot give His glory to anyone and fill with them with wisdom and blessedness unless he acknowledges and worships the Lord, for it is by this that man conjoins himself to the Lord by love and faith; for in order that acknowledgment and worship may be acknowledgment and worship, it must be from love and faith; and without conjunction by means of these no good can flow in from the Lord, because it is not received. All this makes clear that "to give glory to the God of heaven" means to acknowledge and worship the Lord.

AE 677 - Who is afraid of hell?

AE 677 [2]
When those who are merely natural have the truths of good that resided in their externals taken away, they are not disturbed by the influx of falsities and evils from hell, still less do they turn away; for their proper thought and will, which has been interiorly concealed with them, consists of mere falsities and evils...; and when they are in these they are enraged against truths and goods, and thence are eager to destroy them. This is why the evil, when they are no longer in externals, are not afraid of evils and falsities, or even of hell, for these belong to their love, consequently to the delights of their life. But it is not so with those who are also spiritual; these are disturbed in mind and become afraid when they are infested by evils and falsities, which takes place when they are among the evil, for they fear the loss of their spiritual life, respecting which they are disturbed in mind and are alarmed, and supplicate the Lord for aid, and turn themselves away from the evil.

AE 675b - ten drachmas

AE 675b [10]
Of the woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one,
does she not light a candle and sweep the house
and seek carefully till she find it? (Luke 15:8)

"Ten" here signifies much. This is said of a "woman,"
and that "she would light a candle and sweep the house"
because of the spiritual sense in every particular of the Word.
In that sense a "woman" signifies the church
in respect to the affection of truth,
thus also the affection of truth itself which belongs to the church;
the "drachma" signifies truth;
"to lose the drachma" signifies to lose one of the truths
or the knowledges of truth;
"to light a candle" signifies self-examination from affection;
"to sweep the house" signifies to traverse the whole mind
and to examine every particular where the truth lies hidden.
This is the spiritual sense of these words.

AE 668 - "a great voice"

AE 668 (Rev. 11:12)
And they heard a great voice out of heaven, saying unto them,
signifies the Lord's Divine Providence.
"A voice out of heaven" signifies all that proceeds from the Lord, which in general is called Divine truth, and with us in the world is called the Word; thus in particular every precept and command in the Word is meant; this is called "a voice out of heaven" because it descended and is continually descending from the Lord through heaven with those who read the Word from the spiritual affection of truth.

AE 659f - "joy of heart" and "gladness of mind"

AE 659f [2]
It is said "rejoice and be glad" because of the marriage of good and truth;
for "joy" is predicated of good because it relates to love,
for it belongs especially to the heart and will,
and "gladness" is predicated of truth,
because it relates to the love of truth,
for it belongs especially to the mind and its thought;
therefore we speak of "joy of heart" and "gladness of mind."

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
(Psalm 118:24)

AE 659d - "Thou shalt know that thy tent is peace"

AE 659d [18]
thou shalt know that thy tent is peace... (Job 5:24)
A "tent" signifies in the Word the holiness of worship and the good of love,
because Divine worship in most ancient times was performed in tents;
and because their worship was from the good of celestial love,
a "tent" signifies also that good;
and since there is genuine peace in celestial good therefore it is said,
"Thou shalt know that they tent is peace."

AE 655a - the capital punishment used by the Children of Israel

AE 655a [4]
As it is here said "where our Lord was crucified," (Rev. 11:8) it shall be told what "crucifixion (or hanging upon wood)" signified with the Jews. They had two modes of capital punishment, crucifixion and stoning; and "crucifixion" signified a condemnation and curse because of the destruction of good in the church, and "stoning" signified a condemnation and curse because of the destruction of truth in the church. "crucifixion" signified a condemnation and curse because of the destruction of good in the church, for the reason that "wood," upon which they were hung, signified good, and in the contrary sense evil, both pertaining to the will; and "stoning" signified a condemnation and curse because of the destruction of truth in the church, for the reason that "the stone," with which they were stoned, signified truth, and in the contrary sense falsity, both pertaining to the understanding; for all things instituted with the Israelitish and Jewish nation were representative, and thence significative.

AE 654l - a greater sin

AE 654l [68]
...for it is a greater sin to corrupt or pervert the goods of the church than its truths.

AE 654k - Egypt - wilderness - Canaan

AE 654k
In a word, a man must first enrich the memory with knowledges,
afterwards by these his understanding must be cultivated,
and finally the will.
The memory belongs to the natural man,
the understanding to the rational,
and the will to the spiritual.
This is the way of man's reformation and regeneration.
This is why the sons of Israel were first led into Egypt,
afterwards into the wilderness to undergo temptations,
and finally into the land of Canaan,
for as has been said,
they were to represent the church from its first rise to the last end.
Their abiding and sojourning in Egypt
represented the instruction of the natural man;
their wanderings forty years in the wilderness
represented the temptations by which the rational man is formed;
and the land of Canaan, into which there were finally brought,
represented the church, which regarded in itself is spiritual.

AE 654i - in Egypt, in Assyria, in Canaan

AE 654i [57]
The man of the church from being spiritual becomes natural
when he separates faith from charity, that is,
believes the Word but does not live according to its commands;
so also when he claims to himself intelligence
and does not attribute it to the Lord;
from this is the conceit whereby man becomes natural.
For man is first natural, afterwards he becomes rational, and lastly spiritual.
When man is natural he is in Egypt,
when he becomes rational, he is in Assyria,
and when he becomes spiritual he is in the land of Canaan,
thus in the church.

AE 654h - truth shall not rule over good

AE 654h [47]
... truth shall not rule over good,
as is done when the natural man rules over the spiritual...

AE 654g - "Woe to them..."

AE 654g [42]
Woe to them that go down into Egypt for help, and stay on horses,
and trust in the chariot because they are many,
and in horsemen because they are mighty,
but they have no respect unto the Holy One of Israel,
neither seek after Jehovah.
For Egypt is man and not God,
and his horses are flesh and not spirit." Isaiah 31:1, 3

This describes the state of those who wish to be wise in the things of heaven and the church from themselves, thus from self-intelligence and not from the Lord; and as such are merely natural, and thus take everything from the fallacies of the senses, and from knowledges wrongly applied, and pervert and falsify the truths and goods of the church, therefore it is said of them, "Woe to them that go down into Egypt for help, and have no respect unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek after Jehovah"...

AE 654c - the journey to becoming rational

AE 654c [18]
When Israel was a child then I loved him, and called My son out of Egypt.
(Hosea 6:1)
"Israel" signifies in the spiritual sense the church, and in the highest sense the Lord, and as He is the all of heaven is also the all of the church. And as the sons of Israel were to represent the church, and it was according to Divine order that they should first be instructed in such things as would be serviceable to the rational and through this to the spiritual, they first sojourned in Egypt, and afterwards were led into the wilderness that they might undergo temptations, and that through these the natural man might be subdued; for man does not become rational until empty and false knowledges are removed, and the natural man is thus purified, which is effected mainly by temptations.

AE 654a - man becomes an angel

AE 654a [4]
With every man of the church the internal must be conjoined to the external,
or the internal-spiritual man to the external-natural man;
and when these are conjoined the spiritual man,
because it is in the light of heaven,
has dominion over the natural man which is in the light of the world,
and rules it as a master rules a servant,
and teaches it as a teacher teaches a pupil.
It is from this conjunction that a man is a man of the church and an angel.

AE 652b - the truths of doctrine

AE 652B [4]
... all good of life is acquired by means of the truths of doctrine,
for it is by them that a man learns how he ought to live.

AE 650e - man is born anew

AE 650e [60]
... a man who is reformed and regenerated
to the extent that the church may be in him,
is reformed and regenerated little and little;
for he is conceived anew, is born, and is educated,
and this is done so far as the evils and their falsities
that are in him from birth and hereditarily are removed,
which is not effected in a moment,
but through a considerable course of life.

AE 650c - the spiritual man can see

AE 650c [19]
... it was granted to spiritual man from creation to see all things of the natural man, and at the same time to perceive its agreement or disagreement with the spiritual, in order that he might rule the natural...

AE 646 - man is elevated by the Lord into the light of heaven

AE 646 [3]
It is to known that, so far as man acknowledges the Lord and lives according to His commandments he is elevated above what is his own (proprium); which elevation is out of the light of the world into the light of heaven. So long as man lives in the world he dos not know that he is raised up above what is his own (proprium), because he does not feel it, and yet there is an elevation or as it were a drawing of man's interior understanding and interior will towards the Lord, and thus a turning of man's face in respect to his spirit towards the Lord. After death this is made clear to a good man, for then there is a constant turning of his face to the Lord, and as it were a drawing towards Him as to a common center.

AE 644d - building our home on sand or rock

AE 644d
...he that receives the words of the Lord, that is, Divine truths, in one part of the mind only, which is that of the thought or understanding, and not at the same time in the other part, which is that of the affection or will, yields in temptations, and falls into grievous falsities, which are the falsities of evil... but he who receives Divine truths in both parts, that is, both in the understanding and in the will, conquers in temptations. The "rock" upon which that house is founded signifies the Lord as to Divine truth, or Divine truth received by the soul and heart, that is, by faith and love, by the understanding and will.

AE 644b - rain, the inflowing of the Divine

AE 644b [5]
That "rain" in the Word does not mean rain,
but the inflowing Divine,
which causes intelligence and wisdom,
and also the good of love and the truth of faith in man,
to grow and become fruitful....

...for as the grass and herb of the field grow
from the waters of the rain and dew,
so do intelligence and wisdom
by the influx of Divine truth from the Lord.

AE 642 - "fire and a flame go forth out of the mouth of God"

AE 642 [2]
...yet nothing of the fire of anger and wrath goes forth form Him, for He is good itself, love itself, and mercy itself, from which nothing of fire, or of anger, or of wrath, can go forth, yet it is so said, because it so appears. It so appears, because when an evil and infernal spirit assails anything Divine with the intent of hurting it, as when he blasphemes the Lord or the Word, or any good and truth of doctrine, or any good spirit or angel whom the Lord protects, that evil spirit immediately deprives himself of the Lord's protection; for every spirit, the evil as well as the good, is under the Lord's protection, and when that is taken away, he falls into evils and falsities of every kind which are from hell, and at the same time he falls into the hands of those that are from hell, who are called punishers, and these punish and torment him according to the evil that he has done or has attempted to do. From this it can be seen that the Lord does no evil to such, but that the evil spirit himself brings evil upon himself, that is, the evil itself which is in him does it.

AE 638c - evil

AE 638c [17]
... the appearance that all evil almost seems to be from God,
because He is omnipotent and does not avert it;
for it is not known that to avert the evil of punishment
would be contrary to order,
for if it were averted evil would increase
until there would be no good remaining.

AE 635 - Rev. 11:3 (first part)

AE 635
And I will give unto my two witnesses,
signifies the good of love and charity and the truth of doctrine and faith,
both from the Lord.

AE 631 - in the evils themselves are the evils of punishment

AE 631
...we should pray to God not to lead us into temptations;
this is said because it appears as if God so leads,
and yet God leads no one into temptations;
again, it is said that God is angry, punishes, casts into hell,
brings evil upon the wicked, and many other like things,
and yet God is never angry, never punishes or casts into hell,
nor does He at all do evil to any one,
but the wrongdoer himself does this to himself by his evils,
for in the evils themselves are the evils of punishment.