AC 6369 - Young and Old Lions; AC 6371 - The Coming of the Lord; AC 6373 - Shiloh, After Coming of the Lord

AC 6369 - Young and Old Lions

A "young lion" denotes
one who is in power through truth from good,
and an "old lion" one who is in power through good.
For those who are in celestial good never fight,
but are safe through good;
because where they come,
the evil flee away,
for the evil cannot endure their presence;
it is these who are meant by an "old lion."

AC 6371 - The Coming of the Lord

Before the coming of the Lord into the world,
there was influx of life with people and with spirits
from Jehovah or the Lord through the celestial kingdom,
that is, through the angels who were in that kingdom,
and from there they then had the sovereignty.
But when the Lord came into the world,
and thereby made the Human in Himself Divine,
He put on just that
which was with the angels of the celestial kingdom,
thus He put on this sovereignty.
For previously the Divine transflux through that heaven
had been the Divine Human;
it was also the Divine Man which was presented to view
when Jehovah so appeared;
but this Divine Human ceased
when the Lord Himself made the Human in Himself Divine.
This shows how the case is with this secret.
The angels of that kingdom have indeed
great sovereignty now,
but only insofar as they are in
the Lord's Divine Human through love to Him.

AC 6373 - Shiloh, the Coming of the Lord

Until Shiloh come.
(Genesis 49:10)

That this means the coming of the Lord,
and the tranquillity of peace then,
is evident from the meaning of "Shiloh,"
as being the Lord,
who is called "Shiloh" from the fact
that He pacified and made all things tranquil;
for in the original, "Shiloh"
is derived from a word which means tranquillity.
The reason why the Lord is here called "Shiloh"
is plain from what was said above
about the celestial kingdom and its sovereignty;
for when the Divine was presented to view
through that kingdom
there was in tranquillity,
because the things in heaven, and the things in hell,
could not thereby be reduced into order,
for the Divine which flowed through that kingdom
could not be pure,
because heaven is not pure;
thus neither was that kingdom so strong
that all things could by means of it
be kept in order;
and therefore also the infernal and diabolical spirits
were then raising themselves up from the hells
and were ruling over the souls
who were arriving from the world.
The result was that none could be saved but the celestial;
and at last scarcely they,
unless the Lord had taken on the Human
and had made this in Himself Divine;
whereby the Lord reduced all things into order,
first those in heaven,
and afterward those in the hells;
thus producing the tranquillity of peace.