Sunday, January 22, 2012

AC 1806 - the Lord's sight; AC 1808 - stars

AC 1806
He led him forth abroad.
(Genesis 15:5)

Things internal are led forth,
when with the eyes of the body a person
contemplates the starry heaven,
and so thinks of the Lord's kingdom.
. . . The eye itself is properly nothing
but the sight of his spirit led forth abroad . . .
that he may, from the objects in the world,
reflect continually upon those which are in the other life;
for this is the life for the sake of which he lives in the world.
Such was the sight in the Most Ancient Church;
such is the sight of the angels who are with a person;
and such was the Lord's sight.

AC 1808
The "stars" are frequently mentioned in the Word,
and everywhere they signify things good and true,
and also, in the contrary sense, things evil and false . . ..
When they signify angels or societies of angels,
they are then fixed stars;
but when evil spirits and their associations,
they are wandering stars . . ..

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