AE 592 - Explanation of Revelation 10:1; AE 595 - Rainbows of Heaven

AE 592 - Explanation of Revelation 10:1

And I saw another strong angel
coming down out of heaven encompassed with a cloud,
and the rainbow above his head,
and his face as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire.
(Revelation 10:1)

"And I saw another strong angel
coming down out of heaven,"
means the Lord as to the Word,
here in relation to its ultimate sense,
which is called the sense of the letter;
"encompassed with a cloud,"
means the ultimate of the Word;
"and the rainbow above his head,"
means the interior things of the Word;
"and his face as the sun,"
means the Lord's Divine love,
from which is all Divine truth,
which in heaven and in the church is the Word;
"and his feet as pillars of fire,"
means Divine truth, or the Word in ultimates,
sustaining interior things there,
and also full of the good of love.

AE 595 [3]

. . . the rainbows of heaven
are from the light that arises from the Lord as a sun,
and as that sun is in its essence the Lord's Divine love,
and the light therefrom is Divine truth,
the variations of light which are presented as rainbows
are variations of intelligence and wisdom with the angels.
From this it is that rainbows there
mean the form and beauty of spiritual Divine truth.

. . . the rainbows of heaven (mean)
spiritual Divine truths in their form and beauty;
these truths are such as those of the Word
in the spiritual sense.