AC 4779 - Sackcloth - Mourning for Destroyed Good; AC 4783 - Knowing the Lord's Mercy

AC 4779 [1, 7-8] - Mourning for Destroyed Good

And put sackcloth upon his loins.
(Genesis 37:34)

That this means mourning for destroyed good,
is evident from the meaning of
"putting sackcloth upon the loins,"
as being a representative of
mourning for destroyed good.
For the "loins" signify conjugial love,
and consequently all celestial and spiritual love,
and this from correspondence;
for as all the organs, members,
and viscera of the human body
correspond to the Grand Man . . .
so also the loins correspond to
those in the Grand Man, or heaven,
who have been in genuine conjugial love;
and as conjugial love is the fundamental of all loves,
therefore by the "loins" is meant in general
all celestial and spiritual love.
From this came the rite
of putting sackcloth on the loins
when they mourned over good destroyed,
for all good is of love.

That sackcloth is predicated of destroyed good,
is also evident in Revelation:

When he opened the sixth seal,
lo there was a great earthquake,
and the sun became black as sackcloth,
and the whole moon became as blood.
(Revelation 6:12)

An "earthquake" denotes a change
of the state of the church as to good and truth;
the "sun" denotes the good of love,
and therefore sackcloth is predicated of it
when it is destroyed;
the "moon" denotes the truth of faith,
of which blood is predicated,
because "blood" is truth falsified and profaned.

As being clothed in sackcloth and rolling in ashes
represented mourning over evils and falsities,
it also represented humiliation,
and likewise repentance;
for the primary thing in humiliation
is to acknowledge that of himself
one is nothing but evil and falsity.
The same is true of repentance,
which is effected solely through humiliation,
and this through the confession of the heart
that of himself one is of such a nature.

AC 4783 [3] - Knowing the Lord's Mercy

. . . it is evident from the true spiritual sense of the Word
that the Lord has mercy toward everyone,
thus that if heaven were of mercy or grace,
regardless of what the life has been,
everyone would be saved.
The reason why those
who are in faith separate so believe
is that they do not at all know what heaven is,
and this because they do not know what charity is.
If they knew how much
peace and joy and happiness there is in charity,
they would know what heaven is . . ..