AC 8426 - Changes of States

AC 8426 [2]

. . . "in the evening" denotes the end of a former state,
is because the changes of state in the other life
are circumstanced as are the times of day in the world,
namely, morning, noon, evening, and night, or twilight,
and again morning.
Be it known that in the spiritual world
there are perpetual changes of states,
and that all who are there pass through them.
The reason is that they may be continually perfected,
for without changes of states
or without variations
continually succeeding one another in order,
they who are in the spiritual world are not perfected.
The changes of states which succeed each other
in order like the times of the day
and the times of the year,
never return quite the same, but are varied.
The beginning of every state
corresponds to morning on the earth,
and also in the Word is sometimes meant by "morning;"
but the end of every state corresponds to evening,
and is likewise sometimes called "evening" in the Word.
When it is morning they are in love;
when it is noon, they are in light or in truth;
but when it is evening they are in obscurity as to truths,
and are in the delight of natural love.
This delight is what is signified by the quail
which they received in the evening,
and the good is what is signified by the manna
which they received every morning.