AC 9492 - His Protective Border; AC 9493 - Soil & Seed

AC 9492

And shall make upon it a border of gold round about.
(Exodus 25:11)

. . . It is said
"lest they be approached and injured by evils,"
because the good that proceeds from the Lord
protects those who are in heaven,
lest they be approached and injured
by evils from hell.
For the hells continually breathe evil,
and endeavor to destroy heaven;
from which there appears there
as it were an effervescence,
and as it were a boiling up.
For in the minds of those who are in the hells
is seated hatred against the neighbor
and hatred against God;
and therefore they are infuriated
when they perceive the bliss of the upright.
But the good that proceeds from the Lord,
which encompasses heaven in general,
and the heavenly societies
and individual angels there in particular,
protects, and represses the assaults,
and this continually.
This bounding good,
by which the Lord protects heaven,
is meant by "the border of gold round about the ark."


AC 9493
. . . for good is like soil,
and truth is like the seed.