AE 405 - mountains

AE 405 [30]

Mountain" and "mountains"
signify the goods of love and of charity . . .:

Jehovah who covers the heavens with clouds,
who prepares rain for the earth,
who makes grass to spring forth upon the mountains.
(Psalm 147:8)

"The clouds," with which Jehovah covers the heavens,
signify external truths,
such as are in the sense of the letter of the Word;
for the truths in that sense are called in the Word "clouds,"
while the truths in the internal sense are called "glory;"
"the heavens" mean internal truths,
because those who are in the heavens are in them;
"the rain which He prepares for the earth"
signifies influx of truth,
"the earth" meaning the church,
and thus those there who receive truth,
for the church consists of such;
"the mountains on which He makes grass to spring forth"
signify the goods of love,
and thence those who are in the goods of love,
"grass" signifying the spiritual nourishment that such have;
for grass for beasts is meant,
and "beasts" signify
the affections of good of the natural man.