AC 7494 - life from the Divine

AC 7494
... the life which is from the Divine is to will good and believe truth.

AC 7463 - "the law of Jehovah" denotes truth Divine

AC 7463 [4]
..."the law" in a wide sense is the whole Word,
in a less wide sense the historic Word,
in a still less wide sense the Word written by Moses,
and in a narrow sense the commandments of the Decalogue.
From all this it can now be seen why it is said that
Moses represents both the law Divine and also truth Divine.

AC 7437 - how affection effects

AC 7437 [2-3]
As regards thought from evils to falsities,
be it known that they who are in evils
cannot do otherwise than think from them to falsities;
for evils are of their will
and consequently of their love,
and falsities are of their thought
and consequently of their faith.
For what a man wills, he loves;
and what he loves, he confirms and defends;
and evils cannot be confirmed and defended
except by means of falsities....

It is the same also with those who are in a state of good,
in that they cannot do otherwise than think from good to truths;
for good and truth are conjoined,
and also evil and falsity,
insomuch that he who knows that any one is in good,
can know that he is in the truth of his good;

and that he who is in evil is in the falsity of his evil;
and that he is in this falsity
in proportion as he excels in the gift of reasoning and perverting,
and also in proportion as he is in the fear of
the loss of reputation for the sake of gain and honors,
and in proportion as he desires to be in the freedom of doing evil.
Strange to say,
after such persons have for some time defended evils by means of falsities,
they at last persuade themselves that evils are good,
and that falsities are truths.

AC 7424 - What is the difference between interior and exterior evils?

AC 7424
Interior evils are distinguished from exterior
by the fact that interior evils are those which are of the thought and will;
and exterior evils are those which are of act.

AC 7392 - doing mischief vs. imparting benefits

AC 7392 [3]
In the other life all those perceive delight in doing mischief who in the world do not impart benefits to the neighbor for the sake of the neighbor, nor to their country for the sake of their country, nor to the church for the sake of the church, but for the sake of themselves; thus who do not do truth and good for the sake of truth and good.... From this it is that they are in hell, for all who are there love to do mischief, whereas all who are in heaven love to impart benefits.

AC 7381 - internal law & external law

AC 7381
... influx from the Divine takes place through the internal into the external.
The internal law is the truth Divine itself such as it is in heaven,
and the external law is the truth Divine such as it is on earth;
thus the internal law is truth accommodated to angels,
and the external law is truth accommodated to men.

... the internal law which Moses represents is truth accommodated to angels,
and the external law which Aaron represents is truth accommodated to men...

AC 7349 - Thus said Jehovah, Let My people go, that they may serve Me. (Exodus 7:26)

AC 7349
Thus said Jehovah, Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

... this signifies that they should leave those who are of the church to worship their God in freedom...

That it denotes to worship in freedom, is because there could be no worship where falsities were infesting; and because all worship which is truly worship must be in freedom.

AC 7344 - "digging waters to drink round about the river"

AC 7344
... "digging waters to drink round about the river,"
as being to search out truths which they might apply to falsities.
That truths cannot be applied to falsities by mere falsities,
is because truths and falsities are absolute opposites,
and opposites cannot be applied
unless there are intermediates which conjoin.

The intermediates which conjoin are the fallacies of the external senses,
and also the things that have been said in the Word according to the appearance.
Take for example, that nothing but what is good is from the Lord,
and never anything that is evil:
this truth is falsified by the fallacies that the Lord can take away evil if He will,
by His omnipotence,
and that because He does not take it away,
He is therefore the cause of it,
and thus evil too is from the Lord;
and by what has been said in the Word according to the appearance,
that Jehovah or the Lord is angry, punishes, condemns, casts into hell;
when yet it is the evil who do this to themselves....

AC 7319 - the the river shall stink. (Exodus 7:18)

AC 7319
Be it known that in the other life nothing is more abominable,
and consequently nothing has a more offensive stench,
than profaned truth;
it is like the stench of a carcass, which arises when living flesh dies.

AC 7295, 7298 - the balance of freedom

AC 7295
... even evil men have also angels with them,
in order that they may be able, if they will,
to turn themselves to heaven,
and to receive influx and so be reformed.

AC 7298 [2]
... it is according to the laws of order
that no one ought to be persuaded about truth in a moment,
that is to say,
that truth should be so confirmed in a moment
as to leave no doubt whatever about it;
because the truth which is so impressed becomes persuasive truth,
and is devoid of any extension,
and also of any yielding quality.
Such truth is represented in the other life as hard,
and as such that it does not admit good into it
so as to become applicable.

AC 7272 & 7273- evil and the order of salvation

AC 7272 [3]
In a word, the evils of falsity
are as many as are the falsities of faith and of worship.
These evils condemn,
yet not so much as do the evils which originate in evil.
The evils which originate in evil
are those which are from cupidity
rising up from the love of self and of the world.

cupidity - excessive desire, especially for wealth; covetousness or avarice.
from the Online Dictionary

AC 7273
The order of truth Divine,
which is for the evil who are being condemned,
differs from that of truth Divine for the good who are being saved.
The difference is,
that the order for the evil who are being condemned,
is of truth Divine separated from Divine good, thus from mercy;
because they have not received the Divine good,
and thus have rejected mercy.
But the order which is for the good who are being saved,
is of truth Divine conjoined with Divine good, thus mercy;
because they have received the Divine good,
thus the mercy of the Lord.

AC 7265 - Genesis 7 the plagues: rod into a serpent, water into blood, frogs

AC 7265
In this chapter the subject treated of in the internal sense is the first three degrees of vastation.

The first, which is that mere fallacies began to reign with them, whence came falsities, is described by the serpent into which the rod of Aaron was turned.

The second, which is that truths themselves became falsities with them, and that falsities became truths, is described by the blood into which the waters were turned.

The third degree, which is that from falsities they reasoned against the truths and goods of the church, is described by the frogs out of the river.

AC 7255, 7256 - What is good? What is evil?

AC 7255
Inasmuch as good makes heaven with man, and evil makes hell,
it is of the utmost importance to know what good is, and what evil is.
It has already been said that good is that which belongs to love to the Lord,
and to charity toward the neighbor;
and that evil is that which belongs to the love of self and the love of the world.
Hence it follows that it is from the love,
and from these alone, that it can be known what good is, and what evil is.

AC 7256
All things in the universe which are according to Divine order
have relation to good and truth;
and all things in the universe which are contrary to Divine order
have relation to evil and falsity.

AC 7236 - the faces of angels

AC 7236 [2 &3]
From the heavens (as all there have been classified according to goods)
it can be seen how manifold and various good is,
for it is so various
that one is never in the like good with another...
just as one person has not the like face of another;
moreover, in the heavens good forms the faces of the angels.

That which makes good so various is truth;
for when truth is conjoined with good it qualifies it.
The reason why truth is so manifold and various
that it can so greatly vary good,
is that truths are countless....

AC 7236 - the faces of angels

AC 7236 [2 &3]
From the heavens (as all there have been classified according to goods)
it can be seen how manifold and various good is,
for it is so various
that one is never in the like good with another...
just as one person has not the like face of another;
moreover, in the heavens good forms the faces of the angels.

That which makes good so various is truth;
for when truth is conjoined with good it qualifies it.
The reason why truth is so manifold and various that it can so greatly vary good,
is that truths are countless....

AC 7231 - Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Aaron, and Moses - the growth of the spiritual church

AC 7231
Reuben represents faith in the understanding...
Simeon represents faith in the will and in act...
Levi, charity...
Aaron, the doctrine of the church...
and Moses, the law from the Divine.

The reason why mention is here made of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and their sons, and not the rest of the fathers of the tribes with their sons in order, cannot be known except from the internal sense. That this enumeration was made in this chapter to make known the nativity of Aaron and Moses is evident; but for this the genealogy of Levi would have sufficed, for the genealogy of Reuben, Simeon, and their sons contributes nothing thereto.

But the reason (which is seen from the internal sense alone)
is that the subject treated of is the spiritual church,
which is represented by the sons of Israel,
which church begins with man
by means of faith in knowledge and next in understanding,
which faith is represented by Reuben and his sons afterward,

when the church grows with man,
this faith passes into the will,
and from the will into act,
and then the man wills the truth which is of faith and does it
because it has been so commanded in the Word;
this stage of faith is represented by Simeon;

lastly, in his will, which is new,
there is perceived the affection of charity,
so that he wills to do what is good, not as before from faith,
but from charity toward the neighbor;
for when the man is being regenerated thus far,
he is then a man of the spiritual church,
for the church is then in him;
this charity with its affection is what is represented by Levi.
Hence then it is that the families of Reuben and also of Simeon are enumerated, and lastly the family of Levi, by whom as before said is represented charity, which is the very spiritual of the church.

Aaron represents the external of this church, and Moses the internal; the internal of the church is called the law from the Divine, and the external is called the derivative doctrine.
The law from the divine, which is the internal of the church,
is also the Word in the internal sense;
and the derivative doctrine is the Word in the external sense.

AC 7217 - For distress of spirit.

AC 7217
...this state is signified by the burden laid on the sons of Israel by Pharaoh,
that they should search for themselves straw to make brick...
...they who are in a state near to despair are in internal anxiety,
and are then actually in shortness of breath.
In the external sense this condition is a compression of the breast,
and from this as it were a difficulty of breathing;
but in the internal sense it is anxiety on account of the deprivation
of the truth which is of faith, and of the good which is of charity,
and from this is a state near to despair.

AC 7193, 7195, 7197 - temptations and heavenly life

AC 7193 [3]
... it is from Divine order that comfortings follow the pains of temptations,
just as morning and dawn follow evening and night.

AC 7195
... the Lord is more present in a state of temptations
than out of this state,
although it appears otherwise.

AC 7197
In the other life
heaven is given to every one
in accordance with the things of faith and charity in him,
for charity and faith make heaven with every one;
but when it is said that charity and faith make haven,
there is meant the life of charity and faith.

AC 7186 - the Lord's mercy

AC 7186
They who believe that man can be immediately introduced into heaven,
and that this is solely of the Lord's mercy, are very much mistaken.
If this were possible,
all whatsoever who are in hell would be raised into heaven,
for the Lord's mercy extends to all.
But it is according to order that every one carries with him
his life which he had lived in the world,
and his state in the other life is according to this;
and that the mercy of the Lord flows in with all,
but is diversely received,
and by those who are in evil, is rejected....

AC 7166 - "Why is this that Thou hast sent me?"

AC 7166
For the law from the Divine is the law of order,
and the law of order concerning those who are in a state of infestations
from falsities is that they must be infested even to despair,
and unless they are infested to despair,
the uttermost of the use of the infestation is lacking.

That temptation is increased even to despair is very evident
-- from the Lord's temptation in Gethsemane;
-- and also afterward upon the cross,
in that it was carried even to a state of despair;
and the temptation of the Lord is a pattern of the temptation of the faithful;
wherefore the Lord says
that whosoever would follow Him must take up his cross;
for the glorification of the Lord is a pattern of the regeneration of man,
and regeneration is effected chiefly by means of temptation.

AC 7130. 7131 - there are two minds in a person

AC 7130
There are two minds in man;
one is the natural, and the other the rational mind;
the natural mind is the mind of the external man,
but the rational mind is the mind of the internal man.
The things of the natural mind are called memory-knowledges,
but those of the rational mind are called intellectual reasons;
they are also distinguished from each other by the fact
that the things of the natural mind
are for the most part in the light of the world,
which is called the light of nature;
whereas the things of the rational mind are in the light of heaven,
which light is spiritual light.

AC 7131
... for the memory-knowledges of faith and charity are indeed truths,
but general truths....
For example: it is a truth of memory-knowledge
that charity toward the neighbor is the essential of the church;
also that faith cannot be except where charity is;
and likewise that truth and good can be conjoined,
but not truth and evil, nor good and falsity;
besides many similar truths, which are truths of memory-knowledge.
That these can be enriched with innumerable things,
can be seen from the fact that volumes can be written about them,
and yet the singular truths,
which are the interior things of faith, can never be described,
for these can only be seen in the light of heaven,
and do not fall into natural words.
These truths are like charity, which is spiritual affection,
and which for the most part cannot be expressed in words,
except its most general things...
which can be compared with such things as are in the world.

AC 7155 - evils & falsities vs. goods & truths

AC 7155
...before truths and goods can appear,
and the man be thus associated with those who are in heaven,
it is necessary that these evils and falsities be uncovered,
so that he may see them and know them,
and thus learn what is true and what is good.
This cannot possibly be done without combat
with the evils and falsities in himself; which combat takes place actually,
the evil spirits exciting falsities and evils,
and the angels excusing if the end has been good, and instilling truths.
This is perceived as if it were in himself,
as is the case with temptation in man,
which is felt no otherwise than as being in him,
when yet it is the combat of angels with evil spirits outside of him.

AC 7093 - "holding a feast"

AC 7093 [2]
The reason why "holding a feast" signifies worship for a glad mind,
is that the feast was to be held at a way of three days from Egypt,
thus in a state of no infestation by falsities, that is, in a state of liberty;
for he who is being liberated from falsities
and from the distress in which he then is,
from a glad mind gives thanks to God; thus "holds a feast."

AC 7089 - the Ten Commandments or the "Law"

AC 7089
The literal sense of these is that parents are to be honored,
that murder is not to be committed, nor adultery, nor theft, and so on;
but the internal sense is that the Lord is to be worshiped;
that hatred must not be felt; that truth must not be falsified;
and that we must not claim for ourselves that which belongs to the Lord.
So are these four commandments of the Decalogue understood in heaven,
and the rest also in their own way.
For in the heavens they know no other Father than the Lord;
therefore by that parents are to be honored,
they understand that the Lord is to be worshiped:
neither do they know in the heavens what killing is, for they live to eternity;
but instead of killing they understand feeling hatred,
and injuring the spiritual life of any one:
neither do they know in the heavens what it is to commit adultery,
and therefore instead of thereof they perceive that which corresponds,
namely, not to falsify truth:
and instead of stealing
they perceive not to take anything away from the Lord,
and claim it to themselves, as for instance good and truth.

AC 7089 - the Ten Commandments or the "Law"

AC 7089
The literal sense of these is that parents are to be honored,
that murder is not to be committed, nor adultery, nor theft, and so on;
but the internal sense is that the Lord is to be worshiped;
that hatred must not be felt; that truth must not be falsified;
and that we must not claim for ourselves that which belongs to the Lord.
So are these four commandments of the Decalogue understood in heaven,
and the rest also in their own way.
For in the heavens they know no other Father than the Lord;
therefore by that parents are to be honored,
they understand that the Lord is to be worshiped:
neither do they know in the heavens what killing is, for they live to eternity;
but instead of killing they understand feeling hatred,
and injuring the spiritual life of any one:
neither do they know in the heavens what it is to commit adultery,
and therefore instead of thereof they perceive that which corresponds,
namely, not to falsify truth:
and instead of stealing they perceive not to take anything away from the Lord,
and claim it to themselves, as for instance good and truth.

AC 7086 - His Light & Heat

AC 7083
The heat and light in the natural world arise from the sun of the world;
but spiritual heat and light, or love and faith, arise from the sun of heaven.
The sun of heaven is the Lord;
the heat which comes from Him as a sun is love,
and the light which comes from Him as a sun is faith.
That the Lord is light is evident from these words in John:

Jesus said, I am the light of the world,
he that follows Me shall not walk in darkness,
but shall have the light of life.
(John 8:12)

and that the Lord is a sun is evident in Matthew:

When Jesus was transfigured, His face shone as the sun,
and His garments became white as the light.
Matthew 17:2

AC 7058 - the "Father" and "Son"

AC 708 [3]
... in the internal sense the subject here treated of
is the Lord when He was in the world,
and when He called upon His Father as separate from Himself.
But how the case herein is, has been occasionally told before,
namely, that the Divine Itself, or Jehovah, was in Him,
for He was conceived of Jehovah;
and therefore He also calls Him His "Father," and Himself His "Son."
But the Lord was then in the human
that was infirm by heredity from the mother,
and in so far as He was in this,
so far Jehovah or the Divine Itself which was in Him appeared to be absent;
but in so far as the Lord was in the Human glorified, or made Divine,
so far Jehovah or the Divine Itself was present, and in the very Human.
From this then it can be known how it is to be understood
that the truth which had proceeded immediately from the Divine
was from the Divine of the Lord.

AC 7051 - the Divine is mercy itself

AC 7051 [4]
... it is quite contrary to the Divine [to believe]
that some should be born as the elect to salvation and heaven,
and some as the non-elect to damnation and hell.
To think so about the Divine would be horrible,
because such conduct would be the hight of unmercifulness,
when yet the Divine is mercy itself.

AC 7038 - "to serve the Lord"

AC 7038
That "to serve the Lord" denotes to perform uses,
is because true worship consists in the performance of uses,
thus in the exercises of charity.
He who believes the
service the Lord insists solely in frequenting a place of worship,
in hearing preaching there, and in praying, and this is sufficient,
is much mistaken.
The very worship of the Lord consists in performing uses;
and during man's life in the world
uses consist in every one's discharging aright his duty in his station,
and thus from the heart being of service to his country,
to societies, and to the neighbor, in dealing sincerely with his fellow,
and in performing kind offices with prudence
in accordance with each person' character.
These uses are chiefly the works of charity,
and are those whereby the Lord is chiefly worshiped.

AC 7022 - in every detail

AC 7022
That in all things there is a likeness of a marriage,
and that in every detail of the Word there is the marriage of good and truth,
consequently in every detail of the Word there is heaven,
for heaven is this marriage itself;
and as in every detail of the Word there is heaven,
in every detail of the Word there is the Lord,
because the Lord is the all in all things of heaven.

AC 6996 - Can we hear spirits & angels speak?

AC 6996 [2]
... a man cannot even hear the spirits who are with him speaking with one another; and if he heard, he could not perceive, because the speech of spirits is without human words, and is the universal speech of all languages. Moreover spirits cannot hear angels; and if they heard, they could not perceive, because the angelic speech is still more universal. Nay, the angels of the inmost heaven can be still less heard and perceived, because their speech is not a speech of ideas, but of affections which are of celestial love. Seeing that sense these kinds of speech are so far away from man that they cannot possibly be heard and perceived by him, what then, so to speak, must be the Divine speech, which is infinitely above all kinds of speech in the heavens! It is said "the Divine speech," but the Divine truth proceeding from the Divine Human of the Lord is meant.

AC 6987 - Active thought & the speech of spirits and angels

AC 6987
[2] As regards active thought, which is signified by the "mouth,"
be it known that this thought also is speaking thought in its own way,
and that by the activity of this speech it excites the organs of the body corresponding thereto.
It appears as if the words of the speech were in the thought,
but this is a fallacy; it is only the sense of the speech which is there,
the nature of which man can scarcely know,
for it is the speech of his spirit,
which speech is universal speech,
such as is the speech of spirits in the other life.
When this speech flows into the correspondent organs of the body,
it presents the speech of words,
which is vastly different from the thought that produces it,
as is very evident from the fact that a man can think in one minute
what takes him a long space of time to speak or write;
and this would not be the case if this thought were composed of words,
as is the speech of the mouth.
It is from the correspondence of the speech of the thought
and the speech of the mouth,
that when a man comes after death among spirits,
he knows how to speak in the universal language,
thus with spirits, no matter what had been their language in the world;
and that he then scarcely knows otherwise
than that he speaks there as in the world,
when yet the words of their speech are not words
such as man uses in the body,
but are the ideas which had been of his thought,
one idea containing very many things.
For this reason spirits can utter in a moment
what a man can scarcely utter in half an hour,
and even then there are many things within the same idea
which cannot possibly be expressed by bodily speech.

[3] Yet the angels in heaven speak in a different way from spirits;
for the angels who are in heaven have their speech from intellectual ideas,
which by the philosophers are called immaterial ideas;
whereas spirits have their speech from ideas of the imagination,
which are called material ideas;
hence in one idea of the thought of the angels
there are contained very many things
which spirits cannot utter by many series of their ideas,
besides many things which they cannot express at all.
But when a spirit becomes an angel,
he is in angelic speech,
just as a man when after death he becomes a spirit,
is in the speech of spirits, and for a similar reason.
From all this it can be seen what active thought is,
namely, that it is the speech of man's spirit.

AC 6970 - believing

AC 6970
But to believe that there is a heaven and a hell;
that men will live after death,
the good in happiness to eternity,
the evil in unhappiness;
that the life remains with every one;
that faith and charity make spiritual life,
and that this is the life which the angels have in heaven;
that the Lord has all power in the heavens and on earth, as He Himself says

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying,
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
(Matthew 28:18)

that from Him we live;
that the Word is the doctrine of heavenly and divine truths;
and the like - such are matters of faith in spiritual things,
and are here signified by "believing."

AC 6970 - believing

AC 6970
But to believe that there is a heaven and a hell;
that men will live after death,
the good in happiness to eternity,
the evil in unhappiness;
that the life remains with every one;
that faith and charity make spiritual life,
and that this is the life which the angels have in heaven;
that the Lord has all power in the heavens and on earth, as He Himself says

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying,
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
(Matthew 28:18)

that from Him we live;
that the Word is the doctrine of heavenly and divine truths;
and the like - such are matters of faith in spiritual things,
and are here signified by "believing."

AC 6963 - profanation

AC 6963 [2]
... to believe in truths and to live contrary to them, is to profane them.