AE 433c - the Word

AE 433c [13]
. . . the Word and the doctrine of genuine truth therefrom
will remain to eternity with those who are in love to the Lord.

AE 433a - loving the Lord

AE 433a [2]
Those love the Lord
who do and keep His commandments and His words,
because His commandments and words signify Divine truths,
and all Divine truth proceeds from Him,
and that which proceeds from Him is Himself;
when, therefore, a person is in that truth in respect to his life
the Lord is in him and he in the Lord . . ..
To love means also to be conjoined,
for love is spiritual conjunction,
and conjunction is effected
by the reception of Divine truth in doctrine and in life.

AE 431b - judging

AE 431b [6]
For every person is judged according to his life,
and no one except the Lord know the lives of all . . ..

AE 430b - the chief and primary constituent of the church

AE 430b
. . . the chief and primary constituent of the church is truth from good,
for everything of the church is from that,
for truth is of its doctrine,
and good is of a life according to doctrine.

AE 427b - opposites

AE 427b [9]
. . . 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 427a - faces

AE 427a
The whole face, where the organs of
sight, smell, hearing, and taste, are situated,
corresponds to the affections and the thoughts therefrom in general,
the eyes corresponding to the understanding,
the nose to perception,
the ears to hearkening and obedience,
and the taste to the desire to know and be wise;
but the forehead corresponds to the good of love,
from which all these are,
for it forms the highest part of the face,
and directly encloses the front and primary part of the brain,
which is the seat of a person's intellect.
This is why the Lord looks upon angels in the forehead,
and the angels look to the Lord through the eyes;
this is so because the forehead corresponds to the love,
from which the Lord looks upon them,
and the eyes correspond to the understanding
from which they look to the Lord;
for the Lord grants Himself to be seen
through the influx of love into their understanding.

AE 422d, 426 - turning

AE 422d [17]
. . . the whole angelic heaven is turned to the Lord as a sun,
thus constantly to the east;
furthermore, all the interiors of the angels in the heavens
are turned in that direction,
and for this reason
the angels of heaven turn their faces to the Lord.

AE 426
. . . in the spiritual world,
when anyone turns himself away from another
he becomes invisible to him.

AE 422c - the light of the morning

AE 422c [12]
The spirit of Jehovah spoke in me,
the God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me,
As the light of the morning when the sun rises,
a morning without clouds;
from the brightness after rain comes grass out of the earth.
(II Samuel 23:2-4)

"The God of Israel" and "the Rock of Israel" mean the Lord,
and because He is the sun of the angelic heaven,
and because all Divine truth which illustrates angels and people,
and gives intelligence and works reformation,
proceeds from Him as a sun and flows in,
so it is said "as the light in the morning when the sun rises,
a morning without clouds;
from the brightness after rain comes grass out of the earth;"
"the light in the morning when the sun rises"
signifying Divine truth from the Lord as a sun;
"a morning without clouds"
signifying the purity of that truth;
"rain" its influx,
and "grass out of the earth" the consequent intelligence and reformation;
for these are signified by "grass"
because grass springs out of the earth
by the action of the sun of the world after rain,
and intelligence is from the Lord as a sun through the influx of Divine truth.

AE 422a - the signification of angels

AE 422a
And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun,
(Revelation 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
everyone 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 . . .

AE 419f - winds & miracles

AE 419f [24, 26]
There arose a great storm of wind,
and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was now filling.
But Jesus was in the stern, slumbering on a pillow;
and they awake Him, and say unto Him,
Do you not care that we perish?
And He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea,
Be still, be dumb.
And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
(Mark 4:37-39; also Luke 8:23,24)

This miracle of the Lord, like all the rest,
involves arcana of heaven and interior things of the church.
The difference between Divine miracles and those not Divine
is that Divine miracles also signify Divine things,
because the Divine is in them,
while miracles not Divine signify nothing,
because there is nothing of the Divine within them;
and moreover, in the description of the Divine miracles in the Word,
and in every particular thereof, there is a spiritual sense.

This miracle involves spiritual temptations;
"a great storm of wind,
so that the waves beat into the boat, and it was filling,"
signifies such temptations; and that when they were in extreme fear,
"Jesus awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea,
Be still, be dumb; and the wind ceased, and there was a great calm,"
signifies deliverance from temptations.
Moreover, every single word here contains a spiritual sense;
. . ."storm" and "tempest of wind" signify temptations,
for these are irruptions of falsities,
or inundations of the mind by falsities.
This, too, is plain from the rebuke of the wind and the waves,
and from the words of the Lord to the sea,
"Be still, be dumb,"
as if He were speaking to those things
or those persons that induce temptations.

This makes clear what effect is there produced
by the wind coming from the east, which is called "the east wind,"
namely, that with the evil it disperses all the goods and truths
which they presented in external form before the world,
and all the truths which they talked about for the sake of appearances.

AE 419c - must be from both

AE 419c [8]
. . .all worship, confession, and prayer
must be from truths and goods;
to be heard they must be from both . . .

AE 417b - "the stone of the corner"

AE 417b [12]
"The stone of the corner"
signifies all Divine truth upon which heaven and the church are founded,
thus every foundation;
and as the foundation is the ultimate upon which a house or temple rests,
therefore it signifies all things.

AE 413a - "the day of His anger"

AE 413a [2]
But the Lord has no anger whatever,
for He is love and mercy itself and good itself;
and pure love and good itself cannot be angry;
for this is contrary to its essence.

. . . the evil . . . cannot endure such influx of Divine love . . .

AE 411f - don't forget!

AE 411f [28]
. . . he who forgets God is in evils . . .

AE 411d - "upon this rock"

AE 411d [13]
By virtue of this confession
("You are the Christ, the Son of the living God")
"Peter" represented Divine truth from the Lord in the church,
and for this reason he was called "a rock" [petra],
and it is said
"you are a rock [petra], upon this rock [petra] I will build My church,"
which signifies upon Divine truth from the Lord,
or what is the same, upon truths from good,
for upon these the church is built.

AE 411c - depression? - "digging out of the pit"

AE 411c [6]
Hearken unto me,
you that follow after righteousness,
you that seek Jehovah;
look unto the rock out of which you were hewn,
and to the digging out of the pit out of which you were dug.
(Isaiah 51:1)

The "rock" means the Lord in respect to Divine truth,
and the "pit" signifies the Word . . .
"to be hewn out of the rock" and "to be dug out of the pit,"
signify to be regenerated by Divine truths and Divine goods,
thus by truths from good from the Lord;
for "stones," that are cut out of a rock,
signify truths from the Lord;
and "soil," that is dug out of a pit,
signifies good from the Lord,
therefore it is called "the digging out of the pit."

AE 409d - loves

AE 409d [7]
For the love of self and of the world
is the opposite of love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor.
For this reason,
those who are in the heavenly love
would rather die
or be deprived of honors and wealth in the world
than be drawn away from the Lord and from heaven by them;
for this they regard as the all, because it is eternal,
but the former as relatively nothing,
because it comes to an end with life in the world.

AE 408 - truths from good

AE 408 [3]
Truths from good are what have all power,
because good does not act of itself,
but by truths,
for good forms itself in truths,
and clothes itself with them,
as the soul does with the body,
and so acts;
it acts by truths in the natural man,
because there all interior things are together,
and in their fullness.

AE 406d - to live spiritually

AE 406d [14]
. . . to live spiritually
is to live solely in accordance with truths and goods from the Word,
and from revelation out of heaven.

AE 406c - spiritual thought vs. natural thought

AE 406c [8]
Hear the word of Jehovah, ye nations,
and declare it in the islands afar off.
(Jeremiah 31:10).

. . .these words in a purely spiritual sense,
signify that the internal person shall teach the external,
or the spiritual the whole natural person,
the truths of the Word . . .
this pure sense, which is for angels,
is with difficulty perceived by people,
for it is with difficulty
that people can think abstractedly from persons and places,
for the reason that the thought of people is natural,
and natural thought differs from spiritual thought in this,
that it is tied down to places and persons
and is consequently more limited than the spiritual.
And this is why many things that have been explained
will perhaps with difficulty fall into the ideas of the thought of those
who keep the sight of the mind fixed on the sense of the words.

AE 406b - to sing

AE 406b
. . . "to sing a song" and "to praise"
signify worship from a glad mind . . .

. . . "to give glory" meaning worship from internals,
and "to declare praise" worship from externals . . .

AE 405g & 405h - truth

AE 405g [36]
. . . "wilderness" signifying
where there is no good because there is no truth,
thus where there is as yet no church . . .

AE 405h [47]
The understanding of truth is from the light of truth,
but the perception of truth is from the heat or love of truth.

AE 405h [52]
. . . a person by inheritance
is moved to love himself more than God,
and the world more than heaven,
and to love the evils adhering to those loves from parents.
These evils and the falsities therefrom are not removed
except by means of Divine truth
and a life according to it;
by these means the higher or interior mind of a person,
which sees from the light of heaven, is opened,
and by this light the Lord disperses
the evils and the falsities therefrom that are in the natural mind.

AE 405d - the Mount of Olives; AE 405e - one hundred sheep

AE 405d [24]
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,
for "the Mount of Olives" signified that love;
for whatever the Lord did in the world was representative,
and whatever He spoke was significative.
The Lord when in the world was in representatives and significatives,
in order that He might be in the ultimates of heaven and the church . . ..

AE 405e [33]
If any man have a hundred sheep,
and one of them be gone astray,
will he not leave the ninety and nine in the mountains,
and going seek that which is gone astray?
(Matthew 18:12).

It is said, "will he not leave the ninety and nine in the mountains?"
for "sheep in the mountains"
signify those who are in the good of love and charity;
but "the one that is gone astray"
signifies one who is not in that good,
because he is in falsities from ignorance;
for where falsity is,
there good is not,
because good is of truth.

AE 405e - Mount Sinai

AE 405e [25]
Because "a mountain" signified the good of love
and in reference to the Lord,
the Divine good of the Divine love,
from which good Divine truth proceeds,
so Jehovah, that is, the Lord,
descended upon Mount Sinai and promulgated the law.

(promulgated - to make known, to declare)

AE 405b - peace

AE 405b [8]
. . . "peace" in the highest sense signifies the Lord,
and in the internal sense
every good and truth that is from the Lord.

AE 404 - a book rolled up, a scroll

AE 404
. . . the spiritual mind, which is, as was said,
the higher or interior mind with a person,
is opened by truths applied to life, thus by goods,
but it is closed up by falsities applied to life, thus by evils . . .
as the rolling up of the scroll of a book.
. . . By "book" is meant a scroll,
because in ancient times there were no types
and thus no books like those of the present day,
but there were scrolls of parchments . . .

AE 403c - sitting under the vine and fig-tree

AE 403c [12]
In the end of the days it shall be
that the mountain of the house of Jehovah
shall be established as the head of the mountains;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more;
but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree;
and none shall make afraid.
(Micah 4:1, 3-4).

These things are said respecting the Lord's kingdom,
which is with those in the heavens and on the earth who are in love to Him.
. . . "the mountain of Jehovah" signifies the Lord's kingdom
constituted of those who are in love to Him;
and as these dwell above the others in the heavens,
it is said that this mountain
"shall be established as the head of the mountains".
And as such have truths inscribed on their hearts,
and therefore do not dispute about them, it is said that
"nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more,". . ..
That through the truths and goods in which they are,
they shall be safe from evils and falsities is signified by
"they shall sit under their own vine and under their own fig tree,
and none shall make afraid."

AE 403b - gardens and goods and truths

AE 403b [8]
Your many gardens and your vineyards,
and your fig-trees and your olive-trees,
the palmer worm has devoured;
yet have you not returned unto me.
(Amos 4:9)

"Gardens" signify all things of the church
that constitute intelligence and wisdom;
"vineyards" spiritual goods and truths;
"fig-trees" natural goods and truths;
"olive-trees" celestial goods and truths;
"the palmer worm" means the falsity that destroys;
"the fig-tree," "the vine," and "the olive" properly signify the church
and the person of the church;
but as the church is a church and a person is a person from goods and truths,
so these also are signified by those trees,
goods by their fruits,
and truths by their branches and leaves.

(Palmer worms are hairy caterpillars with voracious appetites.)

AE 401e - praise Him

AE 401e [23]
Praise ye Jehovah, all His angels;
praise ye Him, all His hosts;
praise ye Him, sun and moon; praise Him, all ye stars of light;
praise Him, ye heavens of heavens.
(Psalm 148:1-4).
"To praise Jehovah" signifies to worship Him;
"angels" signify those who are in Divine truths from the good of love,
for such are angels;
"all the hosts" signify goods and truths in the whole complex;
"sun and moon" signify the good of love and the truth from that good;
"the stars of light" signify the knowledges of truth from good;
"the heavens of heavens"
signify goods and truths both internal and external . . .

AE 401c - turn

AE 401c [12]
. . . those who are in evils and in falsities therefrom
turn themselves away from the good of love and charity,
consequently from the Lord,
and then they will nothing but evil and think nothing but falsity,
and those who will and think no other,
see nothing but thick darkness
and darkness in such things as pertain to heaven and the church.

AE 401b, c - the Sun shines & enlightens

AE 401b[4]
Likewise when the Lord was seen by John as an angel,
respecting which we read:

And I saw a strong angel coming down out of heaven,
encompassed with a cloud,
and a rainbow about his head,
and his face was as the sun.
(Revelation. 10:1)

for "angels" in the Word in its spiritual sense do not mean angels,
but something Divine from the Lord,
since the Divine that appears from them is not theirs,
but the Lord's with them.
So, too, the Divine truth they speak, which is full of wisdom,
they do not speak from themselves,
but from the Lord,
for they have been people,
and people have all wisdom and intelligence from the Lord.
This makes clear that in the Word "angel" means the Lord,
who also then appeared as a sun.

AE 401c [10]
. . . those who are in love to the Lord
and in charity towards the neighbor
it shall then be given to understand truths . . .

AE 400 - "an earthquake"

AE 400b [2]
. . . "an earthquake" signifies a change of state of the church,
that is, from good into evil, and from truth into falsity.

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 sepulcher; 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 thus 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 sepulcher it is said:

When Mary Magdalene came and the other Mary to see the sepulcher,
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 it.
(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; for this reason "there was an earthquake, and the rocks were rent." "The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom" signified that His Human was made Divine; for within the veil was the ark in which was the Testimony, and "the Testimony" signified the Lord in respect to His Divine Human (see above, n. 392). "The veil" signified the external of the church which was with the Jews and Israelites, and that covered their eyes that they might not see the Lord and Divine truth, or the Word in its own light. The "great earthquake" that occurred when the angel descended from heaven and rolled away the stone from the mouth of the sepulcher, has a like signification, namely, that the state of the church was altogether changed; for the Lord then rose again, and in respect to His Human assumed all dominion over heaven and earth, as He Himself says in Matthew (28:18). "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; for it is said that:

The chief priests and Pharisees sealed the stone with a guard;
but that an angel from heaven removed it and sat upon it.
(Matthew 27:66; 28:2)

The things that have been said respecting these earthquakes, and the veil of the temple, and the stone before the mouth of sepulcher, are but a few, but the things signified by them are many, for each and everything that is written in the Gospels respecting the Lord's Passion involves arcana and is significative. The earthquakes mentioned elsewhere in Revelation also signify changes of the state of the church (as chap. 11:13; 16:17-19).

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 392a - what the Lord speaks

AE 392a
What the Lord speaks is called the Word of God,
and this Divine truth.
The Word or the Sacred Scripture is nothing else;
for in it all Divine truth is contained . . .

AE 391g - our Maker, the Holy One of Israel

AE 391g [23]
In that day shall a man have respect to his Maker,
and his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.
(Isaiah 17:7)

The Lord is called "Maker"
because he leads into the goods of life,
for these make a person;
and He is called "the Holy One of Israel"
because He teaches the truths of doctrine . . .