AE 427 - Sealed on Their Foreheads

AE 427 [1, 2]

Till we have sealed the servants of our God
on their foreheads,
(Revelation 7:3)

means that those who are in truths from good
are first to be separated.
. . . It is from correspondence that "forehead"
means the good of love . . ..
The whole face, where the organs of
sight, smell, hearing, and taste, are situated,
corresponds to the affections
and the thoughts therefrom in general,
the eyes corresponding to the understanding,
the nose to perception,
the ears to hearkening and obedience,
and the taste to the desire to know and be wise;
but the forehead corresponds to the good of love,
from which all these are,
for it forms the highest part of the face,
and directly encloses
the front and primary part of the brain,
which is the seat of man's intellect.
This is why the Lord looks upon angels in the forehead,
and the angels look to the Lord through the eyes;
this is so because the forehead corresponds to the love,
from which the Lord looks upon them,
and the eyes correspond to the understanding
from which they look to the Lord . . ..

"To be sealed" means not to be sealed,
but to be reduced to such a state
that their quality may be recognized,
and that they may thus be conjoined with those
who are in a like state
and separated from those who are in a dissimilar state.