AE 419 - The Source of Spiritual Life

AE 419 [1, 5]

. . . when the Divine from the Lord flows in moderately
there is everywhere tranquillity and serenity,
wherein all appear such as they are
in respect to the state of their good,
for all then stand forth in light;
consequently those who are in good from a spiritual origin
are then separated from those
who are in good merely from a natural origin . . ..

Jesus said to the disciples,
Peace be unto you;
as the Father hath sent Me,
even so send I you.
 And when He had said this
He breathed on them, and said unto them,
Receive ye the Holy Spirit.
(John 20:21, 22)

The Lord "breathed on them, and said to them,
Receive ye the Holy Spirit,"
signifies the like,
as Jehovah "breathed into Adam's nostrils the soul of lives"
namely, spiritual life;
for the Holy Spirit signifies Divine truth
proceeding from the Lord,
from which is spiritual life.
That they should teach Divine truth from the Lord
is signified by
"as the Father hath sent Me, even so send I you;"
for the Lord when He was in the world
was Divine truth itself,
which He taught from His Divine good
which was in Him from conception.
This Divine is what the Lord
here and in other places calls "the Father;"
and because when He went out of the world
He united Divine truth to Divine good
that in Him they might be one,
and because thenceforth Divine truth proceeds from Him
He said, "as the Father hath sent Me, even so send I you."