AC 7145 - Bricks; AC 7112 - Stones

AC 7145

. . . the signification of "making bricks,"
as being to receive things fictitious and false
which are introduced by the evil.

AC 7112

. . . the internal sense of these words,
which does indeed seem remote
from the sense of the letter;
but it should be recognized
that there is nothing in the natural world
that does not correspond to some reality
in the spiritual world.
The angels present with a person
understand in a spiritual way
everything understood by the person in a natural way.
They do not know what straw is,
or what bricks are either.
Such things were well known to those angels
when they were in the world,
but they forgot about them
when they entered heaven,
because there they moved on to spiritual things.
This explains why when a person's ideas
of such things in the natural world
are perceived by angels
they convert them
into the corresponding spiritual realities.
The fact that 'straw' or 'grass'
means the basest kind of factual knowledge,
and 'bricks' fabrications and falsities,
may be seen from a number of considerations;
for herbaceous plants,
and also those that produce straw,
are nothing else than such knowledge.
But seeds, barley-grains, wheat-grains, and the like
are interior truths and forms of good;
and stones that are not man-made are truths.