AE 559 - true elevation

AE 559 [6]
Thus Jehovah shall make you as the head, and not as the tail;
and you shalt be above only, and you shalt not be beneath,
if you will hearken unto the commandments of your God.
(Deuteronomy 28:13)

"To make as the head"
means to make spiritual and intelligent,
and thus to elevate out of the light of the world into the light of heaven;
and "to make as the tail"
means to make sensual and foolish,
so as not to look to heaven but only to the world . . .
"to be above" meaning to be elevated by the Lord so as to look to heaven,
and "to be beneath" meaning not to be elevated by the Lord, but by self,
and a person by self looks only to the world.
For the interiors of a person which belong to his thought and affection
are elevated to heaven by the Lord
when a person is in the good of life and consequently in the truths of doctrine;
but when he is in the evil of life and thence in falsities,
his lower things look downward,
thus only to his body and to such things as are in the world, and thus to hell.
Thus a person puts off his truly human nature and puts on a beastly nature,
for beasts look downward and to such things only
as are met with in the world and upon the earth.
Elevation into the light of heaven by the Lord
is an actual elevation of a person's interiors to the Lord;
and a depression or casting down
to such things as are below and outside the eyes
is an actual depression and casting down of the interiors,
and when this takes place,
all the thought of the spirit is immersed in the ultimate sensual.