HH 185-187 - The Architecture of Heaven

HH 185 -187

Such is the architecture of heaven
that you would say that art there is in its art;
and no wonder, because the art itself is from heaven.
The angels said that such things
and innumerable others still more perfect
are presented before their eyes by the Lord;
and yet these things are more pleasing
to their minds than to their eyes,
because in everyone of them
they see a correspondence,
and through the correspondences what is Divine.

As to these correspondences
I have also been told
that not only the palaces and houses,
but all things and each thing,
both inside and outside of them,
correspond to the interior things
which they have from the Lord,
the house itself in general corresponding to their good,
the particular things inside of a house
to the various things of which their good consists,
and the things outside to truths derived from good,
and also to their perceptions and knowledges
and as these things correspond to the goods and truths
they have from the Lord they correspond to their love,
and to their wisdom and intelligence from love,
since love belongs to good,
wisdom to good and truth together,
and intelligence to truth from good.
These are what the angels perceive
when they behold what is around them,
and thus their minds
are more delighted and moved by them than their eyes.

This makes clear why the Lord called Himself
the temple at Jerusalem:

Jesus answered and said to them,
Destroy this temple,
and in three days I will raise it up.
But He spoke of the temple of his body.
(John 2:19, 21)

namely, because the temple represented
His Divine Human;
also why the New Jerusalem
was seen to be of pure gold,
its gates of pearls,
and its foundations of precious stones:

And the foundations of the wall of the city
were garnished with all manner of precious stones.
The first foundation was jasper;
the second, sapphire;
the third, a chalcedony;
the fourth, an emerald;
The fifth, sardonyx;
the sixth, sardius;
the seventh, chrysolite;
the eighth, beryl;
the ninth, a topaz;
the tenth, a chrysoprasus;
the eleventh, a jacinth;
the twelfth, an amethyst.
And the twelve gates were twelve pearls;
every several gate was of one pearl:
and the street of the city was pure gold,
as it were transparent glass.
(Revelation 21:19-21)

namely, because the New Jerusalem
means the church
which was afterwards to be established,
the twelve gates
its truths leading to good,
and the foundations
the truths on which the church is founded.