DLW 83
Heat in the natural world corresponds
to the good of charity in the spiritual world,
and the light in the natural world corresponds
to the truth of faith in the spiritual.
Even though these are so different in themselves,
still they accord by correspondence.
They so accord
that when a person reads in the Word of heat and light,
the spirits and angels who are with the person
then perceive,
instead of heat, charity,
and instead of light, faith.
DLW 86
The sun in the spiritual world is not the Lord Himself,
but an emanation from the Lord.
It is the emanating Divine love and wisdom
which appear as the sun in that world.
And because love and wisdom in the Lord are one . . .
we say that the sun is Divine love.
For Divine wisdom is a property of Divine love;
consequently it, too, is love.
DLW 97
Let everyone take care not to think
that the sun in the spiritual world is God Himself.
God Himself is human.
The first emanation from His love and wisdom
is a spiritually fiery one,
which appears to angels as the sun.
Consequently when the Lord
manifests Himself to angels in person,
He manifests Himself as a person,
and this sometimes in the sun,
sometimes outside of it.
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