AC 10503 - idols of gold

AC 10503
Mention is made in the Word of four kinds of idols,
namely, idols of stone, of wood, of silver, and of gold.
Idols of stone signify 
worship from falsities of doctrine;
those of wood signify 
worship from evils of doctrine;
those of silver signify 
worship of falsity both in doctrine and in life;
and those of gold signify 
worship of evil both in doctrine and in life.
Consequently idols of gold signified worship the worst of all.
Those who were in this worship not only falsified truths,
but also adulterated goods;
for evils they called goods,
and the derivative falsities they called truths.
All those are in such worship who are in the love of self
and yet believe the Word,
for they apply the sense of the letter of the Word
in favor of all the things which they think and do,
thus in favor of the worship of self.