AC 10134 - Lambs & Morning, Angels & People

 AC10134 [1-2, 4, 6]

The one lamb you shall offer in the morning.
(Exodus 29:39)

By "offering," or "sacrificing, a lamb"
is meant the removal of evils
through the good of innocence from the Lord,
because by burnt-offerings and sacrifices
was signified purification from evils
and the derivative falsities,
or what is the same, their removal,
and the implantation of good and truth,
and their conjunction by the Lord.

That the removal of evils,
and the implantation of good and truth,
and their conjunction,
are effected through
the good of innocence by the Lord,
is because in all good there must be innocence
in order that it be good,
and because without innocence
good is not good.
For innocence is not only
the plane in which truths are sown,
but is also the very essence of good;
so far therefore as a person is in innocence,
so far good becomes good,
and truth lives from good;
consequently so far the person becomes alive,
and so far the evils with him are removed;
and insofar as they are removed,
goods and truths are implanted
and conjoined by the Lord.
This is the reason why the continual burnt-offering
was made by means of lambs.

That by "morning" is meant a state of love
and of the consequent light in the internal person,
is because when an angel
is in a state of love and light,
he is then in his internal person;
but when he is in a state of light and love in obscurity,
he is then in the external person.
For the angels have an internal and an external,
and when they are in the internal,
the external is almost quiescent;
but when they are in the external,
they are in a more gross and obscure state.
Consequently when they are in a state of love and light,
they are in their internal, thus in their morning;
and when they are in a state of light and love in obscurity,
they are in the external, thus in their evening;
from which it is plain
that variations of states are made by elevations
toward more interior things,
thus into a higher sphere of heavenly light and heat,
consequently nearer to the Lord;
and by lowerings toward more exterior things,
into a lower sphere of heavenly light and heat,
and thus more remote from the Lord.

The person who is being regenerated,
and likewise the person who has been regenerated,
also undergo variations of state
as to love and as to faith,
by means of elevations toward more interior things,
and by lowerings toward more exterior things;
but there are few who are able to reflect upon this,
because they do not know what it is
to think and to will in the internal person,
and in the external;
nor indeed what the internal person is,
and what the external.
To think and to will in the internal person
is to think and to will in heaven,
for the internal person is there;
but to think and to will in the external person
is to think and to will in the world,
for the external person is there;
and therefore when a person is in love to God
and in the consequent faith,
he is in the internal person, because in heaven;
but when he is in obscurity
as to love and the consequent faith,
he is in the external man, because in the world.