AE 630 - The Temple; AE 631, 632 - Thinking from Spiritual Truths

AE 630 [7, 8]

. . . the temple in the highest sense
means the Lord in relation to the Divine Human,
so also in relation to Divine truth,
so the temple also signifies Divine truth
proceeding from the Lord,
consequently the Word,
for that is the Divine truth in the church.

. . . "courts" mean the external things
of heaven and of the church,
and so the externals of the Word and of worship.
That the externals of these are signified by the "courts"
is evident from this alone,
that the "temple" in general means heaven and the church,
therefore the three divisions of the temple,
namely, the courts, the temple itself, and the adytum*,
signify the three heavens according to their degrees.

AE 631 [2]

. . . at this day the Word is not explained
according to spiritual truths,
but according to the appearances
of the sense of the letter,
which are applied to confirm
both evils of life and falsities of doctrine;
and because interior truths,
which are spiritual truths,
are unknown and are not received,
it follows that the sense of the letter of the Word
is perverted by evils of the will
and falsities of thought therefrom.

AE 632 [6]

. . . unless a person becomes spiritual,
and thinks from what is spiritual,
he thinks nothing but falsities from evil.
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*adytum - the innermost sanctuary