~ Salt ~

"Everyone will be salted with fire.

"Salt is good,
but if it loses its saltiness,
how can you make it salty again?
Have salt in yourselves,
and be at peace with each other.

(Mark 9:49-50)
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AC 9207 [3]

. . . "to be salted with fire"
denotes the longing of good for truth;
and "to be salted with salt"
denotes the longing of truth for good;
"salt that has lost its saltiness"
denotes truth without any longing for good;
"to have salt in oneself"
denotes to have this longing.

AC 10300

Salted.
That this signifies the longing of truth for good,
is evident from the signification of "salt,"
as being that longing for good 
which is of the love of truth (of which below);
hence "salted" denotes that in which is this longing.
The reason why there must be
a longing of truth for good
is that this longing is conjunctive of the two;
for insofar as truth longs for good,
so far it is conjoined with it.
The conjunction of truth and good
is what is called the heavenly marriage,
which is heaven itself with man;
and therefore when in Divine worship,
and in each and all things of it,
there is a longing for this conjunction,
heaven is in each and all things there.
Thus the Lord is in them.
This is signified by the requirement
that the incense should be salted.
Salt has this signification from its conjunctive nature;
for it conjoins all things,
and from this gives them relish . . ..