AR 796 - The Light of a Lamp

AR 796 [1-2, 3]]

"The light of a lamp shall not shine in you anymore."
(Revelation 18:23)

The light of a lamp symbolizes 
enlightenment by the Lord 
and a consequent perception of spiritual truth. 
That is because the light means the light of heaven, 
which is the light angels have, and people, too, 
as regards their intellect, 
because the light in its essence is Divine wisdom. 
For it emanates from the Lord 
as the sun of the spiritual world, 
which in its essence 
is the Divine love in Divine wisdom, 
and the only light that can emanate from it 
is the light of Divine wisdom, 
and the only warmth the warmth of Divine love. 

. . . Since that light comes from the Lord, 
and the Lord is omnipresent in it and by means of it, 
therefore it is the means of all enlightenment 
and the consequent perception of spiritual truth, 
a perception that those people have 
who love Divine truths spiritually, that is, 
who love Divine truths because they are true, 
thus because they are Divine. 
Plainly this is what it is to love the Lord. 
For the Lord is omnipresent in that light, 
inasmuch as Divine love and wisdom 
do not exist in space, 
but are present wherever they are received, 
in accordance with their reception.

. . . spiritual light originates from the Lord, 
and the only people who can receive 
and accept that light 
are people conjoined with the Lord, 
and conjunction with the Lord is achieved solely 
by an acknowledgment and worship of Him, 
and at the same time 
by a life in accordance with 
His commandments from the Word. 
An acknowledgment and worship of the Lord 
and reading the Word 
bring about the Lord's presence, 
but it is these two things combined 
at the same time 
with a life in accordance with His precepts 
that bring about a conjunction with Him.

. . . the Lord is the light 
that produces all enlightenment 
and the consequent perception of spiritual truth. 
And because the Lord is the light, 
the Devil is darkness. 
The Devil is also the love of exercising dominion 
over all the Divine sanctities belonging to the Lord, 
and over the Lord Himself; 
and to the extent it achieves that dominion, 
it darkens, extinguishes, sets on fire and burns up 
the Divine sanctities belonging to the Lord.