AR 363 - The Great Multitude; AR 366 - To Stand; AR 370 - To Fall On Their Faces

AR 363 [3]

The Lord's church . . . is internal and external.
The people meant by the twelve tribes of Israel
are ones who make up
the Lord's internal church,
whereas the people referred to now
are ones who make up His external church,
and who cohere as one
with those enumerated before,
as lower things do with higher ones,
thus as the body with the head.
The twelve tribes of Israel therefore symbolize
the higher heavens and also the internal church,
while the latter symbolize
the lower heavens and the external church.

AR 366

To stand before the Lord means, symbolically,
to hear and do what He commands,
like one who stands before a king.

AR 370

To fall on their faces and worship
is plainly a humbling of their heart
and consequent worship.
Humility before the Lord and worship of Him
is symbolically meant by
falling before the throne and adoring God
because God means His Divinity -
the Divine from which all else springs -
and at the same time His Divine humanity;
for the two constitute one God, being one Person.