DLW 379 [1, 2]
. . . one who knows that there is a correspondence
of love and its affections
with the heart and its derivatives
may also know
that love is the origin
of the vital warmth.
For love emanates from the spiritual sun
where the
Lord is as warmth,
and it is also felt by the angels as warmth.
This
spiritual warmth,
which in its essence is love,
is what flows by
correspondence
into the heart and its blood,
imparting to it its warmth
and at the same time animating it.
Because love is a person's life,
therefore the heart
is the first and
last vessel of that life.
Moreover, because love is a person's life,
and
the soul maintains its life in the body
by means of the blood,
therefore blood in the Word is called the soul.
DLW 380
The fact that the blood is red
is owing also to the correspondence
of
the heart and blood with love and its affections.
For the spiritual
world has in it colors of every kind.
The colors red and white are the
fundamental ones,
and the rest take their variations from them
and from
their opposites,
which are a dark fiery color and black.
The color red
there corresponds to love,
and the color white corresponds to wisdom.
The
color red corresponds to love
for the reason that it takes its origin
from
the fire of the sun in the spiritual world;
and the color white
corresponds to wisdom
for the reason that it takes its origin from
the
light of the sun there.
Because, then,
there is a correspondence of love
with the heart,
therefore the blood cannot but be red
and attest its
origin.
It is in consequence of this
that in the heavens
where
love toward the Lord reigns,
the light is a flaming one,
and the angels
there are clad in purple garments;
and in the heavens where wisdom
reigns,
the light is bright white,
and the angels there
are clad in
garments of white linen.
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