AE 340 - blessing

AE 340c [12]
I will give them the circuits of My hill as a blessing,
and I will send down the rain in its time;
there shall be rains of blessing.
Then the tree shall yield its fruit,
the land shall yield its produce.
(Ezekiel 34:26-27).

He who sees the Word merely in its natural sense
believes no other than that "blessing"
means such things as are mentioned in that sense,
namely, that rain should be given to make fruitful the gardens and fields,
and thus the tree should yield its fruit and the land its produce;
but it is a spiritual blessing that is meant,
for "rain" signifies everything Divine
that flows into a person from the Lord out of heaven.
That truths will produce good, and that good will produce truths,
is signified by "the tree shall yield its fruit, and the land its produce,"
"land" and also the "garden," in which there are trees, meaning the church;
these and "the circuits of My hill which are to be given as a blessing,"
signify the internal and external with the people of the church,
"circuit" signifying what is outside or below,
and "hill" what is within or above,
especially where charity is, for that is within.