AC 2851 - gates to the city

AC 2851
. . . there are in general two gates with every person;
the one opens toward hell,
and is opened to the evils and falsities therefrom;
in this gate are infernal genii and spirits;
the other gate opens toward heaven,
and is opened to good and the truths therefrom;
in this gate are angels.
There is thus a gate which leads to hell,
and a gate which leads to heaven.

[3] For there are two ways which lead into person's rational mind
- a higher or internal one,
through which good and truth from the Lord enter,
and a lower or external one,
through which evil and falsity come up from hell.
The rational mind itself is in the middle, and to it these ways tend.
That mind, from the goods and truths which are in it,
is compared in the Word to a city, and is called a "city."
And because it is compared to a city,
and is called a "city," gates are attributed to it,
and it is often described as being besieged and stormed by enemies,
that is, by evil genii and spirits;
and as being defended by angels from the Lord,
that is by the Lord.

[15]  Moreover the gates to the New Jerusalem
and the gates to the new temple are much treated of in Ezekiel,
and also by John in Revelation,
by which nothing else is meant than the entrances to heaven

And he carried me away in the Spirit
to a mountain great and high,
and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem,
coming down out of heaven from God.
It shone with the glory of God,
and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel,
like a jasper, clear as crystal.
It had a great, high wall with twelve gates,
and with twelve angels at the gates.
(Revelation 21:10-12)

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