WH 1 - a white horse

WH 1

I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse,
and He that sat upon him was called faithful and true,
and in justice He does judge and make war.
His eyes were as a flame of fire;
and upon His head were many diadems;
and He has a name written that no one knew but He Himself.
And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood;
and His name is called the Word of God.
And the armies which were in the heavens
followed Him upon white horses,
clothed in fine linen white and clean.
And He has upon His vesture
and upon His thigh a name written,
King of kings and Lord of lords.
(Revelation 19:11-14, 16).

. . . the Word is here described
as to its spiritual or internal sense.
*  By "heaven being opened"
is represented and signified,
that the internal sense of the Word is seen in heaven,
and from there by those in the world
to whom heaven is opened.
*  "The horse," which was white,
represents and signifies
the understanding of the Word as to its interiors . . ..
*  That "He that sat upon him"
is the Lord as to the Word, thus the Word,
is most clear, for it is said,
*  "His name is called the Word of God;"
who, from good,
is called "faithful and judging in justice;"
and from truth,
is called "true, and who makes war in justice;"
for the Lord Himself is justice.
*  "His eyes, as a flame of fire,"
signify the Divine truth,
from the Divine good of His Divine love.
*  "The many diadems upon His head,"
signify all the goods and truths of faith.
*  "Having a name written
that no one knew but He Himself,"
signifies that the quality of the Word in the internal sense
is seen by no one but Himself,
and those to whom He reveals it.
*  "Clothed in a vesture dipped in blood,"
signifies the Word in the letter,
to which violence has been offered.
*  "The armies in the heavens
which followed Him upon white horses,"
signify those who are in the understanding of the Word
as to its interiors.
*  "Clothed in fine linen, white and clean,"
signify the same persons in truth from good.
*  "Upon His vesture and upon his thigh
a name written"
signifies truth and good, and their quality.

That the Lord is the Word,
because He is the Divine truth.
That the Word is the Divine truth.
That because the Lord is justice,
therefore it is said, that
*  "He who sat upon the horse in justice
does judge and make war;"
and that the Lord is called "justice" for this reason,
because of His own power He has saved the human race.
And that "justice"
is the merit which belongs to the Lord alone.
*  That "His eyes, as a flame of fire,"
signify the Divine truth from the Divine good of the Divine love,
is, because "the eyes"
signify the understanding and the truth of faith;
and "a flame of fire"
signifies the good of love.
*  "the diadems which were upon His head"
signify all the goods and truths of faith.
*  "He has a name written
which no one knew but He Himself,"
signifies that the quality of the Word in the internal sense
is seen by no one but Himself,
and those to whom He reveals it,
is because "a name" signifies the quality of a thing.
*  "clothed in a vesture dipped in blood,"
signifies the Word in the letter,
to which violence has been offered,
is because "a vesture" signifies truth
because it clothes good;
especially truth in the ultimates, thus the Word in the letter;
and because "blood"
signifies violence offered to truth by falsity.
*  "the armies in heaven
followed Him upon white horses,"
signify those
who are in the understanding of the Word as to its interiors,
is because "armies"
signify those who are in the truths and goods
of heaven and the church.
And "a horse" signifies the understanding.
And "white" signifies truth which is in the light of heaven,
consequently interior truth.
*  "clothed in fine linen white and clean,"
signifies the same persons in truth from good,
is because "fine linen," or "linen,"
signifies truth from a celestial origin,
which is truth from good.
*  "a name written upon the vesture and upon the thigh,"
signifies truth and good, and their quality,
is because "a vesture" signifies truth,
and "a name" quality, as observed above,
and "the thigh" signifies the good of love.
*  "King of kings, and Lord of lords,"
is the Lord as to the Divine truth and as to the Divine good;
the Lord is called "King" from the Divine truth.
And He is called "Lord" from the Divine good.

From here it appears what the quality of the Word is
in its spiritual or internal sense,
and that there is no expression therein
which does not signify something spiritual,
that is, something of heaven and the church.
 

Justice

Do not pervert justice or show partiality.
Do not accept a bribe,
for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise
and twists the words of the righteous.
Follow justice and justice alone,
so that you may live and possess the land
the Lord your God is giving you.
(Deuteronomy 16:19-20)

HH 589 - equilibrium; HH 597 - freedom

HH 589
Everywhere there is a sort of effort
acting on the one side and reacting on the other.
. . . In the natural world
that which acts and reacts is called force,
and also endeavor [or effort];
but in the spiritual world
that which acts and reacts is called life and will.
Life in that world is living force,
and will is living effort;
and the equilibrium itself is called freedom.
Thus spiritual equilibrium or freedom
has its outcome and permanence
in the balance between good acting on the one side
and evil reacting on the other side;
or between evil acting on the one side
and good reacting on the other side.

HH 597
A spiritual equilibrium in its essence is freedom
because it is an equilibrium between good and evil,
and between truth and falsity,
and these are spiritual.
Therefore to be able to will
either what is good or what is evil
and to think
either what is true or what is false,
and to choose one in preference to the other,
is the freedom  . . . given to every person by the Lord,
and is never taken away . . ..

Destroy the Idols

These are the decrees and laws
you must be careful to follow in the land
that the Lord, the God of your fathers,
has given you to possess -
as long as you live in the land.
Destroy completely all the places
on the high mountains
and on the hills
and under every spreading tree
where the nations you are dispossessing
worship their gods.
Break down their altars,
smash their sacred stones
and burn their Asherah poles in the fire;
cut down the idols of their gods
and wipe out their names from those places.

You must not worship the Lord your God in their way.
(Deuteronomy 12:1-4)

HH 582 - what the eyes see

HH 582
. . . the eyes of a person are fitted to receive
the light of the natural world,
 and the eyes of angels and spirits are fitted to receive
the light of the spiritual world;
although the eyes of the two are exactly alike in appearance.
That the spiritual world is such
the natural person cannot comprehend,
and least of all the sensual man,
who believes nothing
except what he sees with his bodily eyes
and touches with his hands,
and therefore takes in by sight and touch.
As his thought is from such things
it is material and not spiritual.
Such being the likeness
between the spiritual world and the natural world,
a person can hardly believe after death
that he is not in the world where he was born,
and from which he has departed.

Hear, O Israel:

Hear, O Israel:
The Lord our God,
the Lord is one.
Love the Lord your God
with all your heart
and with all your soul
and with all your strength.
These commandments that I give you today
are to be upon your hearts.
Impress them on your children.
Talk about them when you sit at home
and when you walk along the road,
when you lie down and when you get up.

And if we are careful to obey all this law
before the Lord our God,
as He has commanded us,
that will be our righteousness.
(Numbers 6:4-7;25)

HH 577, 578 - malice; deceit

HH 577 [3]
. . . the Lord cannot protect a person
unless he acknowledges the Divine
and lives a life of faith and charity;
for otherwise a person turns himself away from the Lord
and turns himself to infernal spirits,
and thus his spirit becomes imbued (saturated)
with a malice like theirs.

HH 578
Those are the worst of all
who have been in evils from love of self
and at the same time inwardly in themselves
have acted from deceit;
for deceit penetrates more deeply
into the thoughts and intentions 
than other evils,
and infects them with poison
and thus wholly destroys the spiritual life of a person.

Obey the Lord

Hear now, O Israel, the decrees and laws
I am about to teach you.
Follow them
so that you may live and may go in
and take possession of the land
that the Lord, the God of your fathers,
is giving you.
Do not add to what I command you
and do not subtract from it,
but keep the commands of the Lord your God . . ..

. . . the Lord is God;
besides Him there is no other.
(Deuteronomy 4:1-2,35)

HH 575 - gnashing of teeth

HH 575
Gnashing of teeth
is the continual contention and combat of falsities
with each other,
consequently of those who are in falsities,
joined with contempt of others,
with enmity, mockery, ridicule, blaspheming;
and these evils burst forth into lacerations of various kinds;
since everyone fights for his own falsity and calls it truth.
These contentions and combats
are heard outside of these hells like the gnashings of teeth;
and are also turned into gnashings of teeth
when truths from heaven flow in among them.
In these hells are all
who have acknowledged nature and have denied the Divine.
In the deeper of these hells are those
that have confirmed themselves in such denials.
As such are unable to receive any thing of light from heaven,
and are thus unable to see any thing inwardly in themselves,
they are for the most part corporeal sensual spirits,
who believe nothing
except what they see with their eyes and touch with their hands.
Therefore all the fallacies of the senses are truths to them;
and it is from these that they dispute.
This is why their contentions are heard as gnashings of teeth;
for in the spiritual world all falsities give a grating sound,
and the teeth correspond to the outmost things in nature
and to the outmost things in man, which are corporeal sensual.

Deuteronomy - "second law"

These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel
in the desert east of the Jordan
 - that is, in the Arabah -
opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel,
Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab.
(It takes eleven days to go from Horeb
to Kadesh Barnea by the Mount Seir road.)

In the fortieth year,
on the first day of the eleventh month,
Moses proclaimed to the Israelites
all that the Lord had commanded him concerning them.
This was after He had defeated
Sihon King of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon,
and Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan,
who reigned in Ashtaroth.

East of the Jordan in the territory of Moab,
Moses began to expound this law, saying:

The Lord our God said to us at Horeb,
"You have stayed long enough at this mountain.
Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites;
got to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah,
in the mountains, in the western foothills,
in the Negev and along the coast,
to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon,
as far as the great river, the Euphrates.
See, I have given you this land.
Go in and take possession of the land
that the Lord swore He would give to your fathers
- to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob -
and to their descendants after them."
(Deuteronomy 1:1-8)

HH 556, 557 - love of self - heavenly love

HH 556
The love of self is wishing well to oneself alone,
and to others only for the sake of self,
even to the church, one's country, or any human society.
It consists also in doing good to all these
solely for the sake of one's own reputation, honor, and glory;
and unless these are seen
in the uses he performs in behalf of others
he says in his heart, 
How does it concern me?
Why should I do this? 
What shall I get from it?
and therefore he does not do it.
Evidently, then, he who is in the love of self
does not love the church or his country or society,
nor any use, 
but himself alone.

HH 557
Heavenly love consists in loving uses for the sake of uses,
or goods for the sake of goods,
which are done by man in behalf of the church,
his country, human society, and a fellow-citizen;
for this is loving God and loving the neighbor,
since all uses and all goods are from God,
and are the neighbor who is to be loved.

Distributing the Land

On the plains of Moab 
by the Jordan across from Jericho
the Lord said to Moses,
"Speak to the Israelites and say to them:
'When you cross the Jordan into Canaan,
drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you.
Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols,
and demolish all their high places.
Take possession of the land and settle in it,
for I have given you the land to possess.
Distribute the land by lot, according to your clans.
To a larger group give a larger inheritance,
and to a smaller group a smaller one.
Whatever falls to them by Lot will be theirs.
Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.

"'But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land,
those you allow to remain 
will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides.
They will give you trouble in the land where you will live.
And then I will do to you what I plan to do to them.'"
(Numbers33:50-56)

HH 550 - evil in the evil doer

HH 550
. . . laws in the world prescribe a penalty for every evil;
therefore he that rushes into evil
rushes also into the penalty of evil.
. . . in the world the evil may be concealed;
but in the other life it cannot be concealed.
All this makes clear that the Lord does evil to no one;
and that it is the same as it is in the world,
where it is not the king nor the judge nor the law
that is the cause of punishment to the guilty,
because these are not the cause of the evil
in the evil doer.

Joshua

So the Lord said to Moses,
"Take Joshua son of Nun,
a man in whom is the spirit,
and lay your hand on him.
Have him stand before Eleazar the priest
and the entire assembly
and commission him in their presence.
Give him some of your authority
so the whole Israelite community will obey him.
He is to stand before Eleazar the priest,
who will obtain decisions for him
by inquiring of the Urim before the Lord.
At his command
he and the entire community of the Israelites will go out,
and at his command they will come in."

Moses did as the Lord commanded him.
(Numbers 27:18-22)

HH 535 - the life of angels is not difficult

HH 535
. . . the life of angels
is a life of joy resulting from a state of blessedness,
and consists in performing good deeds,
which are works of charity.

. . . the life that leads to heaven
is not a life withdrawn from the world,
but a life in the world;
and that a life of piety separated from a life of charity,
which is possible only in the world,
does not lead to heaven;
but a life of charity does;
and a life of charity consists in
acting honestly and justly in every employment,
in every business, and in every work,
from an interior, that is, from a heavenly, motive;
and this motive is in that life
whenever a person acts honestly and justly
because doing so is in accord with the Divine laws.
Such a life is not difficult.

Balak sends Balaam home

Then Balak's anger burned against Balaam.
He struck his hands together and said to him,
"I summoned you to curse my enemies,
but you have blessed them these three times.
No leave at once and go home!
I said I would reward you handsomely,
but the Lord has kept you from being rewarded."

Balaam answered Balak,
"Did I not tell the messengers you sent me,
'Even if Balak gave me his palace filled with silver and gold,
I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad,
to go beyond the command of the Lord -
and I must say only what the Lord says'?"
(Numbers 24:10-13)

HH 522-523 - Divine mercy and Divine means

HH 522
The Divine mercy is pure mercy towards the whole human race,
to save it; and it is also unceasing towards every person,
and is never withdrawn from any one;
so that everyone is saved who can be saved.
And yet no one can be saved except by Divine means,
which means the Lord reveals in the Word.
The Divine means are what are called Divine truths,
which teach how a person must live in order to be saved.
By these truths the Lord leads a person to heaven,
and by them He implants in a person the life of heaven.
This the Lord does for all.
But the life of heaven can be implanted in no one
unless he abstains from evil,
for evil obstructs.
So far, therefore, as a person abstains from evil
he is led by the Lord out of pure mercy by His Divine means,
and this from infancy to the end of his life in the world
and afterwards to eternity.
This is what is meant by the Divine mercy.
And from this it is evident
that the mercy of the Lord is pure mercy,
but not apart from means, that is,
it does not look to saving all out of mere good pleasure,
however they may have lived.

HH 523
The Lord never does anything contrary to order,
because He Himself is Order.
The Divine truth that goes forth from the Lord
is what constitutes order;
and Divine truths are the laws of order.
It is in accord with these laws that the Lord leads a person.
Consequently to save a person by mercy apart from means
would be contrary to Divine order,
and what is contrary to Divine order
is contrary to the Divine.

Balak and Balaam

Then the Israelites traveled to the plains of Moab
and camped along the Jordan across from Jericho.
Now Balak son of Zippor
saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites,
and Moab was terrified because there were so many people.
Indeed, Moab was filled with dread because of the Israelites.

So Balak son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time,
sent messengers to summon Balaam son of Beor,
who was at Pethor, near the River, in his native land.

When Balak heard that Balaam was coming,
he went out to meet him
at the Moabite town on the Arnon border,
at the edge of his territory.
Balak said to Balaam,
"Did I not sent you an urgent summons?
Why didn't you come to me?
Am I really not able to reward you?"

"Well, I have come to you now," Balaam replied.
"But can I say just anything?
I must speak only what God puts in my mouth."

The next morning Balak took Balaam up to Bamoth Baal,
and from there he saw part of the people.
(Numbers 22:1-3;4-5;36-38,41)

HH - 512 - the third state after death

HH 512
The third state of a person after death,
that is, of his spirit,
is a state of instruction.
This state is for those who enter heaven and become angels.
It is not for those who enter hell,
because such are incapable of being taught,
and therefore their second state is also their third,
ending in this,
that they are wholly turned to their own love,
thus to that infernal society which is in a like love.

Good spirits, on the other hand,
are led from the second state into the third,
which is the state of their preparation for heaven
by means of instruction.
For one can be prepared for heaven
only by means of knowledges of good and truth,
that is, only by means of instruction,
since one can know what spiritual good and truth are,
and what evil and falsity are, which are their opposites,
only by being taught.

Aaron's Staff

So Moses spoke to the Israelites,
and their leaders gave him twelve staffs,
one for the leader of each of their ancestral tribes,
and Aaron's staff was among them.
Moses placed the staffs
before the Lord in the Tent of the Testimony.

The next day
Moses entered the Tent of the Testimony
and saw that Aaron's staff,
which represented the house of Levi,
had not only sprouted
but had budded, blossomed and produced almonds.
Then Moses brought out all the staffs
from the Lord's presence
to all the Israelites.
They looked at them,
and each man took his own staff.

The Lord said to Moses,
"Put back Aaron's staff in front of the Testimony,
to be kept as a sign to the rebellious.
This will put an end to their grumbling against Me,
so that they will not die."
Moses did just as the Lord commanded him.

The israelites said to Moses,
"We will die!
We are lost, we are all lost!
Anyone who even comes near
the tabernacle of the Lord will die.
Are we all going to die?"
(Numbers 17:6-13)

HH 499 - the second state after death

HH 499
The second state of a person after death
is called the state of his interiors,
because he is then let into the interiors of his mind,
that is, of his will and thought;
while his exteriors,
which he has been in during his first state,
are laid asleep.

The Ungrateful Children of Israel

Joshua son of Nun 
and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
who were among those
who had explored the land,
tore their clothes 
and said to the entire Israelite assembly,
"The land we passed through and explored
is exceedingly good.
If the Lord is pleased with us,
He will lead us into that land,
a land flowing with milk and honey,
and will give it to us.
Only do not rebel against the Lord.
And do not be afraid of the people of the land,
because we will swallow them up.
Their protection is gone,
but the Lord is with us.
Do not be afraid of them.

But the whole assembly talked about stoning them.
(Numbers 14:6-10)

HH 498 - the first state after the death of the body

HH 498
This first state of a person after death
 continues with some for days,
with some for months,
and with some for a year;
but seldom with any one beyond a year;
for a shorter or longer time with each one
(is) according to the agreement or disagreement
of his interiors with his exteriors.
For with everyone the exteriors and interior
must make one and correspond.
In the spiritual world no one is permitted
to think and will in one way and speak and act in another.
Everyone there must be an image of his own affection
or his own love,
and therefore such as he is inwardly
such he must be outwardly;
and for this reason a spirit's exteriors
are first disclosed and reduced to order
that they may serve the interiors as a corresponding plane.

The Offerings

These were the offerings of the Israelite leaders
for the dedication of the altar when it was anointed:
twelve silver plates,
twelve silver sprinkling bowls
and twelve gold dishes.
Each silver plate weighed a hundred and thirty shekels,
and each sprinkling bowl seventy shekels.
Altogether, the silver dishes weighed
two thousand and four hundred shekels,
according to the sanctuary shekel.
The twelve gold dishes filled with incense
weighed ten shekels each,
according to the sanctuary shekel.
Altogether, the gold dishes
weighed a hundred and twenty shekels.
The total number of animals for the burnt offering
came to twelve young bulls,
twelve rams
and twelve male lambs a year old,
together with their grain offering.
Twelve male goats were used for the sin offering.
The total number of animals
for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering came to
twenty-four oxen,
sixty rams,
sixty male goats
and sixty male lambs a year old.
These were the offering for the dedication of the alter
after it was anointed.

When Moses entered the Tent of Meeting
to speak with the Lord,
he heard the Voice speaking to him
from between the two cherubim
above the atonement cover
on the ark of the Testimony.
And he spoke with Him.
(Numbers 7:84-89)

HH 487 - truth and evil

HH 487 [2]
From truth which is from good
any one can see evil and its falsity;
but from evil
no one can see what is good and true . . .

So They Were Counted

So Moses, Aaron and the leaders of Israel
counted all the Levites by their clans and families.
All the men from thirty to fifty years of age
who came to do the work of serving 
and carrying the Tent of Meeting 
numbered 8,580.
At the Lord's command through Moses,
each was assigned his work and told what to carry.

Thus they were counted,
as the Lord commanded Moses.
(Numbers 4:46-49)

HH 472 - Why do we do what we do?

HH 472 [2-3]
. . . when one acts honestly and justly with a companion,
one person may do it for the purpose of appearing
to be honest and just
out of regard to himself and his own honor;
another out of regard to the world and gain;
a third out of regard to reward and merit;
a fourth out of regard to friendship;
a fifth from fear of the law
and the loss of reputation or employment;
a sixth that he may draw some one to his own side,
even when he is in the wrong;
a seventh that he may deceive;
and others from other motives.
In all these instances
although the deeds are good in appearance,
since it is a good thing
to act honestly and justly with a companion,
they are nevertheless evil,
because they are done,
not out of regard to honesty and justice
and for the love of these,
but out of regard to love of self and the world which are loved;
and honesty and justice are made to serve that love
as servants serve a lord,
whom the lord despises and dismisses
when they fail to serve him.

In outward form 
those act in a like way
who act honestly and justly with a companion
because they love what is honest and just.
Some of these act from the truth of faith or from obedience,
because the Word so commands;
some from the good of faith or from conscience,
because from a religious motive;
some from good of charity towards the neighbor
because his good should be regarded;
some from the good of love to the Lord
because good should be done for the sake of good,
as also what is honest and just
should be done for the sake of honesty and justice;
and this they love because it is from the Lord,
and because the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is in it,
and consequently regarded in its very essence it is Divine.
The deeds or works of such are inwardly good,
and therefore are outwardly good also;
for, as has been said above,
deeds or works are precisely such in quality
as the thought and will from which they proceed . . ..

The Census

The Lord spoke to Moses
in the Tent of Meeting
in the Desert of Sinai
on the first day of the second month
of the second year the Israelites came out of Egypt.
He said:
"Take a census of the whole Israelite community
by their clans and families,
listing every man by name, one by one.
You and Aaron are to number by their divisions
all the men in Israel twenty years old or more
who are able to serve in the army.
One man from each tribe,
each the head of his family, is to help you."
(Numbers 1:1-4)

HH 464 - reasoning is not rationality

HH 464 [5-6]
. . . those who were opposed to the truths of the church,
and who thought from mere knowledges
and confirmed themselves thereby in falsities,
did not cultivate their rational faculty,
but cultivated only an ability to reason,
which in the world is believed to be rationality.
But this ability is wholly different from rationality;
it is an ability to prove any thing it pleases,
and from preconceived principles and from fallacies
to see falsities and not truths.
Such persons can never be brought to acknowledge truths,
since truths cannot be seen from falsities;
but falsities may be seen from truths.

The rational faculty of a person is like a garden or shrubbery,
or like fresh ground;
the memory is the soil,
truths known and knowledges are the seeds,
the light and heat of heaven cause them to grow.
Without light and heat
there is no germination;
so is it with the mind
when the light of heaven,
which is Divine truth,
and the heat of heaven,
which is Divine love,
are not admitted;
rationality is solely from these.

"If you follow My decrees . . ."

"'Do not make idols
or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves,
and do not place a carved stone in your land
to bow down before it.
I am the Lord your God.

"'Observe My Sabbaths
and have reverence for My sanctuary.
I am the Lord.

"'If you follow My decrees
and are careful to obey My commands,
I will send you rain in its season,
and the ground will yield its crops
and the trees of the field their fruit.
Your threshing will continue until grape harvest
and grape harvest will continue until planting,
and you will eat all the food you want
and live in safety in your land.

"'I will grant peace in the land,
and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid.'"

"' But if you will not listen to Me
and carry out all these commands,
and if you reject My decrees and abhor My laws
and fail to carry out all My commands
and so violate My covenant,
then I will do this to you . . .'"
(Leviticus 26:1-6,14-16)

HH 456 - knowing about life after death

HH 456 [3]
. . . nearly all that go from this world
are greatly surprised to find that they are alive,
and are as much a person as before,
that they see, hear, and speak,
and that their body enjoys the sense of touch as before,
with no difference whatever.
And when they cease to be astonished at themselves
they are astonished that the church
should know nothing about this state of people after death,
thus nothing about heaven or hell,
when in fact all that have ever lived in the world
are in the other life and live as people.
And as they wondered also why
this had not been disclosed to people by visions,
being an essential of the faith of the church,
they were told from heaven
that although this might have been done,
since nothing is easier when it is the Lord's good pleasure,
yet those that have confirmed themselves
in the opposite falsities
would not believe even if they themselves should behold it;
also that there is danger in confirming any thing by visions
when people are in falsities,
for they would then first believe and afterwards deny,
and thus would profane the truth itself,
since to believe and afterwards deny is to profane;
and those who profane truths are cast down
into the lowest and most grievous of all the hells.

The Priests

"'The priests are to keep My requirements
so that they do not become guilty and die
for treating them with contempt.
I am the Lord,
Who makes them holy.'"
(Leviticus 22:9)

HH 445 - when the body is no longer able

HH 445
When the body is no longer able to perform
the bodily functions in the natural world
that correspond to the spirit's thoughts and affections,
which the spirit has from the spiritual world,
a person is said to die.
This takes place when the respiration of the lungs
and the beatings of the heart cease.
But the person does not die;
he is merely separated from the bodily part
that was of use to him in the world,
while the person himself continues to live.
It is said that the person himself continues to live
since a person is not a person because of his body
but because of his spirit,
for it is the spirit that thinks in a person,
and thought with affection is what constitutes a person.
Evidently, then, the death of a person
is merely his passing from one world into another.
And this is why in the Word
in its internal sense
"death" signifies resurrection and continuation of life.

I am the Lord your God.

"'When you reap the harvest of your land,
do not reap to the very edges of your field
or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
Do not go over your vineyard a second time
or pick up the grapes that have fallen.
Leave them for the poor and the alien.
I am the Lord your God.'"

"'When you enter the land
and plant any kind of fruit tree,
regard its fruit as forbidden.
For three years you are to consider it forbidden;
it must not be eaten.
In the fourth year all its fruit will be holy,
an offering of praise to the Lord.
But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit.
In this way your harvest will be increased.
I am the Lord your God.'"
(Leviticus 19:9-10;23-25)

HH 432 - every person is a spirit

HH 432
. . . it is not the body that thinks,
but the soul, which is spiritual.
The soul of a person . . . is his spirit,
for this as to everything belonging to it 
is immortal.
This also is what thinks in the body, for it is spiritual,
and what is spiritual
receives what is spiritual and lives spiritually,
which is to think and to will.
Therefore,
all rational life that appears in the body
belongs to the soul,
and nothing of it to the body;
for the body, as just said, is material,
and the material, which is the property of the body,
is added to and apparently almost joined to the spirit,
in order that the spirit of a person
may be able to live and perform uses in the natural world . . ..
And as it is the spiritual only that lives and not the material,
it can be seen that whatever lives in a person is his spirit,
and that the body merely serves it . . ..

A Directive to Moses

"'You must keep the Israelites separate
from things that make them unclean,
so that will not die in their uncleanness
for defiling My tabernacle (dwelling place),
which is among them.'"
(Leviticus 15:31)

HH 425 - What happens in the world of spirits?

HH 425
In order, therefore, that a person may have in him
either heaven or hell,
he is first brought after death into the world of spirits,
and there with those who are to be raised up into heaven
good and truth are conjoined,
and with those who are to be cast down into hell
evil and falsity are conjoined.
For neither in heaven nor in hell
is any one permitted to have a divided mind,
that is, to understand one thing and to will another;
but everyone must understand what he wills,
and will what he understands.
Therefore in heaven he who wills good understands truth,
while in hell he who wills evil understands falsity.
So in the intermediate state
the falsities that the good have are put away,
and truths that agree and harmonize with their good
are given them;
while the truths that the evil have are put away,
and falsities that agree and harmonize with their evil
are given them.
This shows what the world of spirits is.

Infectious Skin Diseases

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
"When anyone has a swelling or a rash
or a bright spot on his skin
that may become an infectious skin disease,
he must be brought to Aaron the priest
or to one of his sons who is a priest.
The priest is to examine the sore on his skin . . ."

hh 420 - heaven is never closed

HH 420
That heaven is not immense, but it is of limited extent,
is a conclusion that some have derived
from certain passages in the Word
understood according to the sense of its letter;
for example, where it is said
that only the poor are received into heaven,
or only the elect, or only those within the church,
and not those outside of it,
or only those for whom the Lord intercedes;
that heaven is closed when it is filled,
and that this time is predetermined.
But such are unaware that heaven is never closed,
and that there is no time predetermined,
or any limit of number;
and that those are called the "elect"
who are in a life of good and truth;
and those are called "poor"
who are lacking in knowledges of good and truth
and yet desire them;
and such from that desire are also called hungry.
Those that have conceived an idea
of the small extent of heaven from the Word not understood
believe it to be in one place, where all are gathered together;
when, in fact, heaven consists of innumerable societies.
Such also have no other idea than
that heaven is granted to everyone
from mercy apart from means,
and thus that there is admission and reception from mere favor;
and they fail to understand
that the Lord from mercy leads everyone who accepts Him,
and that he accepts Him
who lives in accordance with the laws of divine order,
which are the precepts of love and of faith,
and that the mercy that is meant
is to be thus led by the Lord from infancy
to the last period of life in the world and afterwards to eternity.
Let them know, therefore,
that every person is born for heaven,
and that he is received
that receives heaven in himself in the world,
and he that does not receive it is shut out.

Gathering at the Tent of Meeting

The Lord said to Moses,
"Bring Aaron and his sons, their garments,
the anointing oil,
the bull for the sin offering,
the two rams
and the basket containing bread made without yeast,
and gather the entire assembly
at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting."
Moses did as the Lord commanded him,
and the assembly gathered
at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
(Leviticus 8:1-4)

HH 397, 399, 403 - heavenly joy & happiness

HH 397
. . . the Divine good that flows forth from the Lord's Divine love
is what makes heaven in general and in particular
with everyone there,
and the Divine love is a longing for the salvation of all
and the happiness of all from inmosts and in fullness.

HH 399
Love to the Lord is such
because the Lord's love
is a love of sharing everything it has with all,
since it wills the happiness of all.
There is a like love in everyone of those who love the Lord,
because the Lord is in them;
and from this comes
the mutual sharing of the delights of angels with one another.
. . . It is otherwise with the loves of self and of the world.
The love of self takes away from others
and robs others of all delight,
and directs it to itself,
for it wishes well to itself alone;
while the love of the world
wishes to have as its own
what belongs to the neighbor.
Therefore these loves are destructive of the delights of others;
or if there is any disposition to share,
it is for the sake of themselves and not for the sake of others.

HH 403
There were some spirits who believed
from an opinion adopted in the world
that heavenly happiness consists in an idle life
in which they would be served by others;
but they were told
that happiness never consists in abstaining from work
and getting satisfaction therefrom.
. . . Such a life would be an idle not an active life,
and would stupefy all the powers of life;
and everyone ought to know that without activity of life
there can be no happiness of life,
and that rest from this activity
should be only for the sake of recreation,
that one may return with more vigor
to the activity of his life.
. . . angelic life 
consists in performing the good works of charity,
which are uses,
and that the angels find all their happiness in use,
from use, and in accordance with use.

The Grain Offering

"'When someone brings a grain offering to the Lord,
his offering is to be of fine flour.
He is to pour oil on it, put incense on it
and take it to Aaron's sons the priests.
The priest shall take a handful of the fine flour and oil,
together with all the incense,
and burn this as a memorial portion on the altar,
an offering made by fire,
and aroma pleasing to the Lord.
The rest of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and his sons;
it is a most holy part of the offerings made to the Lord by fire.'"
(Leviticus 2:1-3)

HH 391 - employments in heaven

HH 391
Some societies are employed in taking care of little children;
others in teaching and training them as they grow up;
others in teaching and training in like manner
the boys and girls that have acquired a good disposition
from their education in the world,
and in consequence have come into heaven.
There are other societies
that teach the simple good from the Christian world,
and lead them into the way to heaven;
there are others that in like manner
teach and lead the various heathen nations.
There are some societies
that defend from infestations by evil spirits
the newly arrived spirits that have just come from the world;
there are some
that attend upon the spirits that are in the lower earth;
also some that attend upon spirits that are in the hells,
and restrain them from tormenting each other
beyond prescribed limits;
and there are some that attend upon those
who are being raised from the dead.
In general, angels from each society are sent to men
to watch over them and to lead them
away from evil affections and consequent thoughts,
and to inspire them with good affections
so far as they will receive them in freedom;
and by means of these
they also direct the deeds or works of men
by removing as far as possible evil intentions.
When angels are with men
they dwell as it were in their affections;
and they are near to man
just in the degree in which he is in good from truths,
and are distant from him
just in the degree in which his life is distant from good.
But all these employments of angels
are employments of the Lord through the angels,
for the angels perform them from the Lord
and not from themselves.
For this reason, in the Word in its internal sense
"angels" mean, not angels, but something belonging to the Lord;
and for the same reason angels are called "gods" in the Word.

The Tabernacle and the Glory of the Lord

The Israelites had done all the work
just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Moses inspected the work
and saw that they had done it
just as the Lord had commanded.
So Moses blessed them.
(Exodus 39:42)

Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting,
and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting
because the cloud had settled upon it,
and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

In all the travels of the Israelites,
whenever the cloud lifted from the tabernacle,
they would set out;
but if the cloud did not lift,
they did not set out - until the day it lifted.
So the cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day,
and fire was in the cloud by night,
in the sight of all the house of Israel
during all their travels.
(Exodus 40:34-37)

HH 369 - union, HH 380 - dominion

HH 369
Everyone, whether man or woman,
possesses understanding and will;
but with the man the understanding predominates,
and with the woman the will predominates,
and the character is determined by that which predominates.
Yet in heavenly marriages there is no predominance;
for the will of the wife is also the husband's will,
and the understanding of the husband
is also the wife's understanding,
since each loves to will and to think like the other,
that is mutually and reciprocally.
Thus are they conjoined into one.
This conjunction is actual conjunction,
for the will of the wife
enters into the understanding of the husband,
and the understanding of the husband 
into the will of the wife,
and this especially when they look into one another's faces;
for, as has been repeatedly said above, 
there is in the heavens a sharing of thoughts and affections,
more especially with husband and wife,
because they reciprocally love each other.

HH 380 [2]
When one wills or loves what the other wills or loves
each has freedom, since all freedom is from love;
but where there is dominion no one has freedom;
one is a servant,
and the other who rules is also a servant,
for he is led as a servant by the lust of ruling.
But all this is wholly beyond the comprehension
of one who does not know what the freedom of heavenly love is.
Nevertheless from what has been said above
about the origin and essence of marriage love
it can be seen that so far as dominion enters,
minds are not united but divided.
Dominion subjugates,
and a subjugated mind has either no will or an opposing will.
If it has no will it has also no love;
and if it has an opposing will there is hatred in place of love.

Moses and the Testimony

When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai,
He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony,
the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
(Exodus 31:18)

When the people saw that Moses was so long
in coming down from the mountain,
they gathered around Aaron and said,
"Come, make us gods who will go before us.
As for this fellow Moses
who brought up up out of Egypt,
we don't know what has happened to him."

Moses turned and went down the mountain
with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands.
They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.
The tablets were the work of God;
the writing was the writing of God,
engraved on the tablets.

When Moses approached the camp
and saw the calf and the dancing,
his anger burned
and he threw the tablets out of his hands,
breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.
And he took the calf they had made
and burned it in the fire;
then he ground it to powder,
scattered it on the water
and made the Israelites drink it.

And the Lord struck the people with a plague
because of what they did with the calf 
that Aaron had made.
(Exodus 32:1,15-16,19-20,35)

The Lord said to Moses,
"Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones,
and I will write on them the words
that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
Be ready in the morning,
and then come up on Mount Sinai."

Moses was there with the Lord
forty days and forty nights
without eating bread or drinking water.
And he wrote on the tablets
the words of the covenant - the Ten Commandments.
(Exodus 34:1-2; 27-28)

HH 357-358 - Who are the rich and poor in heaven?

HH 357-358
. . . the rich enter heaven just as easily as the poor,
and that no person
is shut out of heaven on account of his wealth,
or received into heaven on account of his poverty.
Both the rich and the poor are in heaven,
and many of the rich in greater glory and happiness
than the poor.

It should be said to begin
with that a person may acquire riches and accumulate wealth
as far as opportunity is given,
if it is not done by craft or fraud;
that he may enjoy the delicacies of food and drink
if he does not place his life therein;
that he may have a palatial dwelling in accord with his condition,
have interaction with others in like condition,
frequent places of amusement,
talk about the affairs of the world,
and need not go about like a devotee
with a sad and sorrowful countenance and drooping head,
but may be joyful and cheerful;
nor need he give his goods to the poor
except so far as affection leads him;
in a word,
he may live outwardly precisely like a person of the world;
and all this will be no obstacle to his entering heaven,
provided that inwardly in himself he thinks about God as he ought,
and acts sincerely and justly in respect to his neighbor.
For a person is such as his affection and thought are,
or such as his love and faith are,
and from these all his outward acts derive their life;
since acting is willing, and speaking is thinking,
acting being from the will, and speaking from the thought.
So where it is said in the Word
that person will be judged according to his deeds,
and will be rewarded according to his works,
it is meant that he will be judged and rewarded
in accordance with his thought and affection,
which are the source of his deeds, or which are in his deeds;
for deeds are nothing apart from these,
and are precisely such as these are.
All this shows that the person's external accomplishes nothing,
but only his internal, which is the source of the external.

The Breast Piece

"Fashion a breast piece for making decisions -
the work of a skilled craftsman.
Make it like the ephod:
of gold, and of blue, purple and scarlet yarn,
and of finely twisted linen.
Then mount four rows of precious stones on it.
In the first row there shall be a ruby, a topaz and a beryl;
in the second row a turquoise, a sapphire and an emerald;
in the third row a jacinth, an agate and an amethyst;
in the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx and a jasper.
Mount them in gold filigree settings.
There are to be twelve stones,
one for each of the names of the sons of Israel,
each engraved like a seal
with the name of one of the twelve tribes."
(Exodus 28:15-20)

HH 350 - willing and doing

HH 350
To love truth and good for the sake of truth and good
is to will and do them;
for those love who will and do,
while those who do not will and do
do not love.
Such also love the Lord and are loved by the Lord,
because good and truth are from the Lord.
And inasmuch as good and truth are from the Lord
the Lord is in good and truth;
and He is in those 
who receive good and truth in their life by willing and doing.
. . . a person is loved by the Lord just to the extent
that his will is formed from good
and his understanding from truth.
Also to be loved by the Lord 
is to love the Lord,
since love is reciprocal;
for upon him who is loved
the Lord bestows ability to love.
 

God's Angel to Prepare the Way

"See, I am sending an angel ahead of you
to guard you along the way
and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
Pay attention to him and listen to what he says.
Do not rebel against him;
he will not forgive your rebellion,
since My Name is in him.
If you listen carefully to what he says
and do all that I say,
I will be an enemy to your enemies
and will oppose those who oppose you.
My angel will go ahead of you
and bring you into the land
of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites,
Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites,
and I will wipe them out."

. . . "But I will not drive them out in a single year,
because the land would become desolate
and the wild animals too numerous for you.
Little by little I will drive them out before you,
until you have increased enough
to take possession of the land."
(Exodus 23:20-22; 29-30)

HH 329 - little children in heaven; HH 341 - genuine innocence

HH 329
It is a belief of some
that only such children as are born within the church
go to heaven,
and that those born out of the church do not,
and for the reason
that the children within the church are baptized
and by baptism are initiated into faith of the church.
Such are not aware
that no one receives heaven or faith through baptism;
for baptism is merely for a sign and memorial
that a person should be regenerated,
and that those born within the church
can be regenerated because the Word is there,
and in the Word are the Divine truths
by means of which regeneration is effected,
and there the Lord who regenerates is known.
Let them know therefore
that every child, wherever he is born,
whether within the church or outside of it,
whether of pious parents or impious,
is received when he dies by the Lord
and trained up in heaven,
and taught in accordance with Divine order,
and imbued with affections for what is good,
and through these with knowledges of what is true;
and afterwards
as he is perfected in intelligence and wisdom
is introduced into heaven and becomes an angel.
Everyone who thinks from reason can be sure 
that all are born for heaven and no one for hell,
and if a person comes into hell he himself is culpable;
but little children cannot be held culpable.

HH 341
Genuine innocence is wisdom,
since so far as any one is wise
he loves to be led by the Lord;
or what is the same,
so far as any one is led by the Lord
he is wise.

At Mount Sinai

The Lord said to Moses,
"I am going to come to you in a dense cloud,
so that the people will hear Me speaking with you
and will always put their trust in you."
(Exodus 19:9)

When the people saw the thunder and lightning
and heard the trumpet
and saw the mountain in smoke,
they trembled with fear.
They stayed at a distance and said to Moses,
"Speak to us yourself and we will listen.
But do not have God speak to us or we will die."

Moses said to the people,
"Do not be afraid.
God has come to test you,
so that the fear of God will be with you
to keep you from sinning."
The people remained at a distance,
while Moses approached the thick darkness
where God was.
(Exodus 20:18-21)

HH 318, 319 - heathens and a moral life

HH 318
There is a general opinion
that those born outside of the church,
who are called the nations, or heathen,
cannot be saved,
because not having the Word
they know nothing about the Lord,
and apart from the Lord there is no salvation.
But that these also are saved
this alone makes certain,
that the mercy of the Lord is universal,
that is, extends to every individual;
that these equally with those within the church,
who are few in comparison, are born men,
and that their ignorance of the Lord is not their fault.
Any one who thinks from any enlightened reason
can see that no man is born for hell,
for the Lord is love itself
and His love is to will the salvation of all.
Therefore He has provided a religion for everyone,
and by it acknowledgment of the Divine and interior life;
for to live in accordance with one's religion
is to live interiorly,
since one then looks to the Divine,
and so far as he looks to the Divine
he does not look to the world
but separates himself from the world,
that is, from the life of the world, which is exterior life.

HH 319
Everyone knows that the heathen as well as Christians
live a moral life,
and many of them a better life than Christians.
Moral life may be lived
 either out of regard to the Divine
or out of regard to men in the world;
and a moral life that is lived out of regard to the Divine
is a spiritual life.
In outward form the two appear alike,
but in inward form they are wholly different;
the one saves man, the other does not.
For he who lives a moral life out of regard
to the Divine
is led by the Divine;
while he who leads a moral life out of regard
to men in the world
is led by himself.

Be Still - Then Move - Be Grateful & Rest

Moses answered the people,
"Do not be afraid. 
Stand firm and you will see the deliverance
the Lord will bring you today.
The Egyptians you see today
you will never see again.
The Lord will fight for you;
you need only to be still."

Then the Lord said to Moses,
"Why are you crying out to me?
Tell the Israelites to move on."

. . . Then the angel of God,
who had been traveling in front of Israel's army,
withdrew and went behind them.
The pillar of cloud also moved from in front
and stood behind them,
coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel.
Throughout the night
the cloud brought darkness to the one side
and light to the other side;
so neither went near the other all night long.
(Exodus 14:13-14,19-20)

Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day
to gather it (the manna), but they found none.
Then the Lord said to Moses,
"How long will you (plural) refuse
to keep My commands and My instructions?
Bear in mind that the Lord has given you the Sabbath;
that is why on the sixth day He gave you bread for two days.
Everyone is to stay where he is on the seventh day;
no one is to go out."
So the people rested on the seventh day.
(Exodus 16:27-30)

HH 312 - darkness

HH 312
. . . when matters relating to the body and the world are loved,
as they are at the present day,
nothing but darkness flows into the mind . . .

Leaving Egypt

All the Israelites did
just what the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
And on that very day
the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt
by their divisions.
(Genesis 12:50-51)

When Pharaoh let the people go,
God did not lead them
on the road through the Philistine country,
though that was shorter.
For God said, "If they face war,
they might change their minds and return to Egypt."
So God led the people
around by the desert road toward the Red Sea.
The Israelites went up out of Egypt armed for battle.

After leaving Succoth
they camped at Etham on the edge of the desert.
By day the Lord went ahead of them
in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way
and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light,
so that they could travel by day or night.
Neither the pillar of cloud by day
nor the pillar of fire by night
left its place in front of the people.
(Genesis 13:17-18, 20-22)

HH 303, HH 310 - man (homo), angels, correspondences

HH 303
. . . there is a connection
of the natural world with the spiritual world,
and that in consequence
there is a correspondence of all things
in the natural world with all things in the spiritual;
also that there is a connection
and consequently a correspondence
of all things of man with all things of heaven.

HH 310
. . . the Word . . . is despised by some
on account of its simple style;
and that nothing whatever is known about its internal sense,
and for this reason it is not believed
that so much wisdom lies hid in it.
The angels said
that although the style of the Word seems simple
in the sense of the letter,
it is such that nothing can ever be compared to it in excellence,
since Divine wisdom lies concealed
not only in the meaning as a whole but also in each word;
and that in heaven this wisdom shines forth.
. . . this wisdom is the light of heaven,
because it is Divine truth,
for that which shines in heaven is the Divine truth.
. . . without such a Word
there would be no light of heaven with the men of our earth,
nor would there be any conjunction of heaven with them;
for there is conjunction only so far
as the light of heaven is present with man,
and that light is present only so far
as Divine truth is revealed to man by means of the Word.
This conjunction by means of the correspondence
of the spiritual sense of the Word with its natural sense
is unknown to man,
because the man of this earth knows nothing
about the spiritual thought and speech of angels,
and how it differs from the natural thought and speech of men;
and until this is known
it cannot in the least be known what the internal sense is,
. . . if this sense were known to man,
and if man in reading the Word were to think
in accordance with some knowledge of it,
he would come into interior wisdom,
and would be still more conjoined with heaven,
since by this means
he would enter into ideas like the ideas of the angels.

The Lord Sends Moses to Pharaoh

Then the Lord said to Moses,
"Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh:
Because of My mighty hand he will let them go;
because of My mighty hand
he will drive them out of his country."

God also said to Moses,
"I am the Lord.
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob
as God Almighty (El-Shaddai),
but by name the Lord (I AM)
I did not make myself known to them.
I also established My covenant with them
to give them the land of Canaan,
where they lived as aliens.
Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites,
whom the Egyptians are enslaving,
and I have remembered My covenant.

"Therefore, say to the Israelites:
'I am the Lord,
and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
I will free you from being slaves to them,
and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm
and with mighty acts of judgment.
I will take you as My own people,
and I will be your God.
Then you will know that
I am the Lord your God,
Who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand
to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.
I will give it to you as a possession.
I am the Lord.'"
(Genesis 6:1-8)

HH 291, 302 - all good is from the Lord and all evil is from hell

HH 291
It is well known in the church that all good is from God,
and that nothing of good is from man,
consequently that no one ought to ascribe (attribute)
any good to himself as his own.

HH 302
If a person only believed, as is really true,
that all good is from the Lord and all evil from hell,
he would neither make the good in him a matter of merit
nor would evil be imputed to him;
for he would then look to the Lord
in all the good he thinks and does,
and all the evil that flows in
would be cast down to hell from which it comes.
But because person does not believe
that anything flows into him either from heaven or from hell,
and therefore supposes that all things
that he thinks and wills are in himself
and therefore from himself,
he appropriates the evil to himself,
and the good that flows in he defiles with merit.

Moses Returns to Egypt

Then Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law
and said to him,
"Let me go back to my own people in Egypt
to see if any of them are still alive."

Jethro said, "Go, and I wish you well."

Now the Lord had said to Moses in Midian,
"Go back to Egypt,
for all the men who wanted to kill you are dead."
So Moses took his wife and sons,
put them on a donkey and started back to Egypt.
And he took the staff of God in his hand.
(Genesis 4:18-20)

HH 286 - Divine peace

HH 286
Divine peace is in the Lord;
it springs from the union
of the Divine Itself and the Divine Human in Him.
The Divine of peace in heaven
is from the Lord,
springing from His conjunction with the angels of heaven,
and in particular
from the conjunction of the good and truth in each angel.
These are the origins of peace.

The Burial of Jacob

So Jacob's sons did as he had commanded them:
They carried him to the land of Canaan
and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah,
near Mamre, which Abraham had bought
as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite,
along with the field.
After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt,
together with his brothers and all the others
who had gone with him to bury his father.
(Genesis 50:12-14)