AC 5319 - Shining Linen Garments; AC 5323 - Holy Fear and Humiliation; AC 5329 - The Angels With Us

AC 5319

And clothed him in garments of fine linen.
(Genesis 41:42)

That "garments of fine linen"
are truths from the Divine,
is because a garment made of fine linen
was of purest white and lustrous;
and truth from the Divine is represented
by garments of such whiteness and luster.
The reason is,
that the shining whiteness and luster of heaven
is from the light that is from the Lord,
and this light is the Divine truth . . ..

AC 5323 [1,2]

. . . all inward endeavors that are of the will,
thus of the love or affection,
consequently of the life,
have outward acts or gestures corresponding to them;
which acts or gestures flow from
the very correspondence of outward things
with inward ones.
Holy fear with its consequent humiliation
(and therefore adoration),
has acts or gestures corresponding to itself,
namely, bending the knees, falling down upon the knees,
and also prostrating the body down to the earth.
In this state,
if the adoration is from genuine humiliation,
or if the humiliation is from genuine holy fear,
there is a failing of the spirits,
and hence a giving way of the joints
in the border or intermediate region
where the spiritual is conjoined with the natural,
thus where the knees are . . ..
Hence it is that the bending of the knees
is a sign representative of adoration.
With celestial men this act is spontaneous;
but with spiritual men it is a result of will. 

When the kings of old rode in a chariot,
knees were bent because kings represented
the Lord as to Divine truth,
and a "chariot" signified the Word.
The rite of this adoration began
when it was known what it represented;
and at that time the kings did not ascribe
the adoration to themselves,
but to the royalty apart from themselves,
although adjoined to them.
With them the royalty was the law,
which, being from Divine truth,
was to be adored in the king
insofar as he was the custodian of it.
Thus the king ascribed none of the royalty to himself
beyond the custody of the law;
and insofar as he receded from this,
so far he receded from the royalty,
knowing that adoration
on any other ground than the law, that is,
any other adoration than of the law in itself,
would be idolatry.

AC 5329

. . . because there is a correspondence
of all things in the world with those in heaven,
the angels perceive heavenly things
when man perceives worldly ones.
Unless this were the case
no angel from heaven could possibly be with man.
But in order that angels may be with man,
the Word has been given,
in which the angels may perceive a Divine holiness
which they can communicate to the person
with whom they are present.