AC 6451, 6454 - the Lord is the all of life

AC 6451 [3]
As all the interiors are together in the ultimate,
therefore the appearance is as if life were in the ultimate,
that is, in the body;
when yet it is in the interiors, nor yet there,
but in the highest,
that is, in the Lord, for whom is the all of life.

AC 6454
Whatever is in the natural, and especially what is in the exterior natural,
is obscure in comparison with what is in the interior natural,
and still more so in comparison with what is in the rational.
But this obscurity becomes clear in two ways;
first if the exteriors are brought into compliance with the interiors,
and thus from correspondence;
secondly, if the person can be elevated from the exterior to the interior things,
and thus to see the exterior things from what is interior.
This latter way is possible with those who are in the internal of the church,
and the former with those who are in its external;
but neither the one nor the other is obtained
except through regeneration by the Lord.

AC 6443 - those who have been rescued by the Lord

AC 6443
... they who are being elevated into heaven are at first in obscurity;
for they cannot come to clearness until they have been in heaven,
and have been instructed with respect to truths by the Lord
through the angels, into whose society they are sent;
for there is need of time
in order that the obscurity induced by falsities may be dissipated.

AC 6443 - those who have been rescued by the Lord

AC 6443
... they who are being elevated into heaven are at first in obscurity;
for they cannot come to clearness until they have been in heaven,
and have been instructed with respect to truths by the Lord through the angels,
into whose society they are sent;
for there is need of time
in order that the obscurity induced by falsities may be dissipated.

This week, I have read the same couple pages over and over. I can't seem to get beyond a certain point - perhaps because there is something here that seems simple but perhaps needs more attention. So this may be long, and I apologize.

AC 6435
Even to the desire of the hills of an age.
... the signification of the "hills of an age,"
as being the things of mutual love....
Before it is shown from other passages of the Word that by the "hills of an age" is signified mutual love, it must first be told what is meant by the mutual love to which the man of the spiritual church, represented by Joseph, busies himself in arriving.

From what has frequently been said and shown above, it is evident that there are two kingdoms which constitute heaven, namely, the celestial kingdom and the spiritual kingdom.

The difference between these two kingdoms is that
the internal good of the celestial kingdom is the good of love to the Lord,
and its external is the good of mutual love;
they who are of this kingdom are in the good of love,
but not in the truth which is called the truth of faith,
for this is in the good of this kingdom,
insomuch that it cannot be seen separately from good,
and therefore they who belong to this kingdom
cannot even mention faith, because with them
instead of the truth of faith there is the good of mutual love.
But as regards the spiritual kingdom,
its internal is the good of charity toward the neighbor,
while its external is the truth of faith.

[2] But although the good of mutual love
(which is the external of the celestial church) is more interior,
and the good of charity toward the neighbor is more exterior,
nevertheless, as just said,
the Lord conjoins these goods by an intermediate,
and thus conjoins these two kingdoms.

[3] In order to make a distinction between
the external good of the celestial church
and the internal good of the spiritual church,
in the following pages we may call the former good the good of mutual love,
and the latter the good of charity toward the neighbor,
which difference has not been heretofore observed.

These things being first known,
it may be said what is signified by "even to the desire of the hills of an age,"
which is among the blessings of Israel concerning this spiritual church,
namely, that the spiritual kingdom may rise above the good of charity
even to the good of mutual love, which is of the celestial kingdom;
and that in this way these two kingdoms may be intimately conjoined....

[6] ... a 'hill' is signified the good of mutual love,
and by a 'mountain' the good of celestial love,
which is the good of love to the Lord...

The mountains shall bring peace, and the hills in righteousness.
(Psalms 72:3)

For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and the hills should resound with singing,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
(Isaiah 55:12)

Short summary: -
Celestial kingdom - good of love to the Lord
External is the good of mutual love.
Truth of faith is not separate from the good of mutual love.
Mutual love is more interior than charity toward the neighbor
as is from the rational.
Celestial good = the good of mutual love.

Spiritual kingdom -
Internal - good of charity toward the neighbor,
which is from the natural.
External - truth of faith.
Spiritual good = good of charity toward the neighbor

AC 6423 - what makes truth strong

AC 6423
The reason why truth is strong, is that good acts through truth;
for good is of such a nature that nothing of evil or of falsity can approach it,
thus none of the infernal crew, who flee far away
when good approaches, or an angel who is in good.
But in order that good may fight with that crew which is with man from hell,
and protect him in every way,
and also protect the spirits who arrive from the world,
and likewise those who are in the lower earth,
it acts through truth, for in this way it can approach them.

AC 6410 - idleness and activity

AC 6410
The delight from good and the pleasantness from truth
which cause blessedness in heaven,
do not consist in idleness, but in activity;
for in idleness
delight and pleasantness become undelight and unpleasantness;
but in activity
delight and pleasantness are permanent and constantly uplift,
and cause blessedness.

With those who are in heaven,
activity consists in the performance of uses
(which to them is delight from good),
and in relishing truths with the end of uses
(which to them is pleasantness from truth).

AC 6397 - the Lord alone knows

AC 6397 [3]
... no man, nor even an angel, can judge any one;
for no one but the Lord alone can know the interiors,
what they are and what they will be,
and this to eternity.

AC 6391 - And he shall see rest that it is good. (Genesis 49:15)

AC 6391
And he shall see rest that it is good.
The reason why "rest" denotes works of good without reward,
is that in the highest sense "rest" or "peace" signifies the Lord;
in the relative sense, heaven:
thus the good which is from the Lord....

AC 6386 - doctrinal things, knowledges, & memory knowledges

AC 6386
Doctrinal things are those which are from the Word;
knowledges are those which are from doctrinal things on one side
and from memory-knowledges on the other;
and memory-knowledges are those which belong to experience,
either one's own or that of others.

AC 6380 - The Lord's Human

AC 6380
... the Lord's Divine natural is called the "good of truth,"
when yet His whole Human is the Divine good of the Divine love.

AC 6366 & 6368 - the paths of influx

AC 6366
... when celestial love, which is represented by Judah,
flows into the spiritual truths which are represented by the sons of Israel,
it disposes them into order, and thus submits them to the Lord....

AC 6368
... no one can be torn away and delivered from hell
unless in the life of the body he has been in spiritual good,
that is, in charity through faith;
for unless he has been in the good through faith,
there is nothing to receive the good which flows in from the Lord;
but it flows through, except that which can be fixed somewhere....

AC 6359 - the light of heaven

AC 6359
... among spirits and among the angels
truth from good appears and is presented to view as soft,
but falsity from evil as hard,
and this in proportion as the falsity from evil is more confirmed....

Thus when the light of heaven from the Lord
falls upon the harness produced by falsity from evil, it is reflected;
but on the other hand,
when the light of heaven from the Lord
falls upon the softness produced by truth from good, it is received.

AC 6344 - the "powers" that are the angels

AC 6344 [4]
... they who are in truth from good,
that is, in faith from charity,
are in power through truth from good.
In this power are all the angels,
and from this the angels are called in the Word "powers;"
for they are in the power of restraining evil spirits,
one angel being able to restrain a thousand all at once.

AC 6333 & 6340 - the Lord gave the Word in order to unite heaven and earth

AC 6333 [4]
The historical parts have been given in order that infants and children may thereby be initiated into the reading of the Word; for the historical parts are delightful, and rest in their minds, whereby communication is given them with the heavens; and this communication is grateful, because they are in a state of innocence and mutual charity. This is the reason why there is an historical Word.

There is a prophetical Word, because when it is read, it is not understood by man except obscurely, and when it is understood obscurely by such men as there are now, it is perceived clearly by the angels....

AC 6340
...they who are of the church should hear the Lord, that is, should hear Him in the Word, and what He there teaches with respect to the truths of faith and the goods of love....

AC 6325 - the Lord gives

AC 6325
... the person who is led by the Lord is in freedom itself,
and thus in delight and bliss itself;
goods and truths are appropriated to him;
there is given him an affection and desire for doing what is good,
and then nothing is more delightful to him than to perform uses.

There is given him a perception of good, and also a sensation of it;
and there is given him intelligence and wisdom;
and all these as his own;
for he is then a recipient of the Lord's life.

AC 6303 - And God shall be with you.

AC 6303
And God shall be with you.
That this signifies the Divine providence of the Lord . . .
for when the Lord is with any one, He leads him,
and provides that all things which happen,
whether sad or joyful, befall him for good:
this is the Divine providence.

The reason why it is called the providence "of the Lord"
is that it is said, "God shall be with you,"
and by "God" and by "Jehovah" in the Word is meant the Lord,
for there is no other God besides Him;
for He is the very Father and He is the very Son,
for they are one;
the Father is in Him, and He is in the Father,
as He Himself teaches in John 14:8-11:

Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us."
Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip,
even after I have been among you such a long time?
Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.
How can you say, 'Show us the Father?'
Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?
The words I say to you are not just my own.
Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing His work.
Believe me when I say
that I am in the Father and the Father is in me..."

AC 6299 - the need for the external

AC 6299 [2]
In order for an internal to be an internal of the church, it must needs be in the external of the church, for the external holds the place of the foundation on which the internal stands, and is the receptacle into which the internal stands, and is the receptacle into which the internal flows. Hence it is that the natural, which is external, must needs be regenerated; for unless it is regenerated, the internal has neither foundation nor receptacle; and if it has no foundation nor receptacle, it utterly perishes.

[3] As an illustration of this matter take this example. The very affection of charity which a person feels within himself as a quietude and bliss in benefiting the neighbor without regard to any recompense, is the internal of the church; but to will this good and to do it from truth, that is, because it has been so commanded in the Word, is the external of the church.

AC 6292 - Put they right hand upon his head. (Genesis 48:17)

AC 6292
Put they right hand upon his head.
That when he was blessing, Israel placed his hand on the head, was a ritual received from the ancients; for in the head are the very intellectual and will of a person, but in the body are acts according thereto, and compliance; thus putting the hand on the head was a representative that a blessing was being communicated to the intellectual and the will, thus to the person himself. From that ancient time the same ritual remains even to this day, and is in use in inaugurations, and also in the act of blessing.

AC 6280 - the Lord as to His Divine Human is called the "Redeemer"

AC 6280
... by assuming the Human and making it Divine the Lord redeemed man,
that is, delivered him from hell;
so the Lord as to His Divine Human is called the "Redeemer."

The first part, and sections 2 & 3 are quoted in today's comments of the blog.

AC 6227 - "Israel" is the spiritual church

AC 6227
... in the genuine sense "Israel" is the spiritual church,
and the good of this church is the good of truth;
because those who belong to this church
are instructed about good by means of truth,
and when they do according to the truth in which they are instructed,
then this truth is called good.

AC 6272 - a flame

AC 6272
... for good is like a flame,
and truth like the light from it:
if you take away the flame,
the light also perishes....

AC 6232 - truths and goods can increase

AC 6232 [2]
That truths and goods can increase indefinitely
comes from the fact that they proceed from the Lord,
who is infinite.

AC 6222- the intellectual (Ephraim) and the will of the church (Manasseh)

AC 6222 [portions of 2, 3, & 4]
The intellectual of the church is to perceive from the Word what the truth of faith is, and what is the good of charity.

... the intellectual of the church consists in a person's perceiving, when he reads the Word and carefully compares one passage with another, what is to be believed, and what is to be done. This intellectual is to be found only in such people as are enlightened by the Lord . . . this enlightenment is to be found only in such people who desire to know truths, not for the sake of reputation and glory, but for the sake of life and use.

... they who are in the intellectual of the church are clearly able to perceive that the word everywhere teaches that love to the Lord and charity toward the neighbor are essentials of the church; and that the life of a person remains after death; and that his life is from his loves....

[6] This is the intellectual which is represented by Ephraim; but the good of the church, which is represented by Manasseh, is the good of charity which is insinuated by the Lord into the person of the church by means of the truths of faith; for these, together with the good of charity, are what flow into the intellectual and enlighten it, and also make the intellectual and the will constitute one mind.

AC 6207 - conscience is the plane into which the angels flow

AC 6207
Conscience is twofold, interior and exterior.
Interior conscience is of spiritual good and truth;
exterior conscience is of justice and equity.

... they who enjoy exterior conscience are saved in the other life;
for they are of such a character
that if they act contrary to what is good and true,
or contrary to what is just and equitable,
they are inwardly distressed and tormented;
not because by so doing
they suffer loss of honor, of gain, or of reputation;
but because they have acted contrary to good and truth,
or to justice and equity.

But where these consciences do not exist,
there is something else of a very low nature
which sometimes counterfeits conscience,
and which leads men to do what is true and good,
and what is just and equitable,
not from the love of these,
but for the sake of self and their own honor and advantage.
These persons also are distressed and tormented
when adverse things befall them.
But this conscience is no conscience,
because it belongs to the love of self and of the world,
and there is nothing in it which regards the love of God and of the neighbor;
and therefore in the other life it does not show itself.

... conscience is the plane into which the angels flow,
and indeed into the affections of good and truth,
and of justice and equity therein;
and that in this way they hold the man bound,
yet still in freedom.

AC 6207 - conscience is the plane into which the angels flow

AC 6207
Conscience is twofold, interior and exterior.
Interior conscience is of spiritual good and truth;
exterior conscience is of justice and equity.

... they who enjoy exterior conscience are saved in the other life;
for they are of such a character
that if they act contrary to what is good and true,
or contrary to what is just and equitable,
they are inwardly distressed and tormented;
not because by so doing they suffer loss of honor, of gain, or of reputation;
but because they have acted contrary to good and truth,
or to justice and equity.

But where these consciences do not exist,
there is something else of a very low nature
which sometimes counterfeits conscience,
and which leads men to do what is true and good,
and what is just and equitable,
not from the love of these,
but for the sake of self and their own honor and advantage.
These persons also are distressed and tormented when adverse things befall them.
But this conscience is no conscience,
because it belongs to the love of self and of the world,
and there is nothing in it which regards the love of God and of the neighbor;
and therefore in the other life it does not show itself.

... conscience is the plane into which the angels flow,
and indeed into the affections of good and truth,
and of justice and equity therein;
and that in this way they hold the man bound,
yet still in freedom.

AC 6196 - man is governed by the Lord by means of angels and spirits

AC 6196
The things which flow in from the spirits who are from hell are evils and falsities, but those which flow in from the angels who are from heaven are goods and truths. Thus by means of influxes opposite to each other the man is kept in the midst, thus in freedom.

As the things which flow in from the angels, flow in through the more inward interiors, they are not so apparent to the outward sense as are those which flow in from evil spirits.

Moreover the angels are of such a character that they never desire to hear that the influxes of good and truth are from themselves, but that they are from the Lord, and they are indignant if it is thought otherwise; for they are in the manifest perception that it is so, and they love nothing more than to will and think not from themselves, but from the Lord.

On the other hand, evil spirits are angry if told that they do not think and will from themselves, because this is contrary to the delight of their loves; and they are more angry when told that life is not in them, but that it flows in.

AC 6180 - "And do mercy and truth with me." (Genesis 47:29)

AC 6180
And do mercy and truth with me.
... the signification of "doing mercy," as being the good of love;
and from the signification of "doing," as being the truth of faith.
These words are uttered as words of supplication, thus of humiliation.
That "doing mercy" denotes the good of love
is because all mercy is of love;
for he who is in love or charity is also in mercy,
and the love and charity in him becomes mercy
when the neighbor is in need or misery,
and he affords him help in that state.
So it is that by "mercy" is signified the good of love.
That "doing truth" denotes the truth of faith is because all truth is of faith....

[2] .. the good of love and the truth of faith are in the closet conjunction,
and the one is not possible without the other...

AC 6157 - What makes a man a man?

AC 6157
... for man is not man from his external form, but from his mind,
that is, from his understanding and will which constitute his mind,
and also from the truth of faith and the good of charity
which constitute the still more inward mind.

AC 6144 - why despair is the last of temptation

AC 6144
There are many reasons why despair is the last of desolation and of temptation....

Despair causes those who feel it to acknowledge
in an effectual and feeling manner
that there is nothing of truth and good from themselves,
and that from themselves they are condemned;
but that they are delivered from condemnation by the Lord;
and that salvation flows in by means of truth and good.

Despair also causes them to feel the happiness of life
which is from the Lord;
for when they come out of that state,
they are like those who have been condemned to death,
and are set free from prison.
Moreover by means of desolations and temptations,
states contrary to heavenly life are felt,
the result of which is the implantation
of a sense and perception of the satisfaction and happiness of heavenly life;
for a sense and perception of what is satisfying and happy
is impossible without comparison and the opposites.
To the end therefore that full comparisons may be made,
desolations and temptations are brought to their utmost, that is, to despair.

AC 6119 - there is spiritual death when there is a lack of truth

AC 6119
Spiritual life consists in activities according to truths,
consequently in uses;
for they who are in spiritual life
have an appetite and a longing for truths with a view to life, that is,
that they may live according to them, thus with a view to uses.
So far therefore as they are able to receive truths
in accordance with which uses may be done,
so far they are in spiritual life,
because so far they are in the light of intelligence and of wisdom.
When therefore truths fail,
as is the case when a state of shade comes,
which is signified in the Word by "evening",
the spiritual life labors;
for such things present themselves as belong to the shade,
that is, to spiritual death;
for in this case they are not as before kept in the light,
but are in part let back into their own;
and hence there arises from the shade
an image of spiritual death, that is, of damnation.

AC 6110 - Because the famine was very grievous. (Genesis 47:13)

AC 6110
... truths and goods and the knowledges thereof
make the spiritual life of those who are in heaven,
for these are the celestial and spiritual foods
with which they are nourished.
These foods are given them daily by the Lord.
When it is morning with them, goods are supplied;
when it is noon, truths are supplied;
but when it is evening, goods and truths are lacking,
and this even unto twilight and the return of morning.
The angels are then kept in a state of appetite,
which is of such a nature
that they long for these things more
than those who are hungry on earth long for food.

[4] What is still more worthy of note is
that the shades of evening and the darkness of night
do not come from the Lord,
but from things that belong to angels, spirits, and men

[5] The reason why these alternations exist in the spiritual world
is that all who are in heaven may be continually perfected.

AC 6097 - temptations; AC 6107 - real innocence

AC 6097
All temptations appear evil, for the reason that they are interior anxieties and griefs, and as it were damnations; for the person is then let into the state of his evils, consequently among evil spirits, who accuse him, and thus torment the conscience; nevertheless the angels defend him, that is, the Lord through angels, for the Lord keeps him in hope and trust, which are the forces of combat from within whereby he resists. Especially is the natural let into temptations when it is receiving the spiritual, because in the natural reside evils of life and falsities of doctrine.

AC 6107
In regard to influx from the internal celestial into the spiritual good and into the truths of the church in the natural according to the quality of the good of innocence, the case is this.
Innocence is that from the inmost which qualifies
all the good of charity and of love.
For the Lord flows in through innocence into charity,
and in proportion to the innocence,
such is the reception of charity;
for innocence is the very essential of charity.

Real innocence dwells soley in wisdom,
and wisdom consists in bearing one's self toward the Lord,
from the good of love and of faith,
as do little children toward their parents...

AC 6078 - memory-knowledges and truths sustain the soul of a person

AC 6078
That truths nourish the spiritual life is especially manifest with good spirits and with the angels in heaven, for both good spirits and angels have a constant longing to know things and to be wise; and when they lack this spiritual food they feel desolate, their life is languid, and they are hungry; and they are not restored and raised into the bliss of their life until their longing is satisfied. But in order that memory-knowledges may yield healthful nourishment to the soul, there must be in them life from the goods of truth.

[5] John 10:9:

I am the door;
by Me if any one enter in,
he shall be saved,
and shall go in and go out,
and shall find pasture.

where "pasture" denotes the goods and truths
which those have who acknowledge the Lord,
and seek life from Him alone.

AC 6073 - What are the goods of charity?

AC 6073
All the goods which are called goods of charity are nothing but uses,
and uses are nothing but works for the neighbor,
for our country, for the church, for the Lord's kingdom.
Moreover regarded in itself charity itself does not become charity
until it comes into act and becomes work.
For to love anyone, and not do him good when we have the power,
is not to love him;
but to do him good when we have the power, and to do it from our hearts,
this is to love him;
and then all things of charity toward him
are contained within the very deed or work;
for a man's works are the complex of all things of his charity and faith,
and are what are called spiritual goods,
and indeed become goods by exercise, that is, by means of uses.

[2] As the angels who are in heaven are in good from the Lord,
they long for nothing more than to perform uses.
These are the very delights of their life,
and it is also according to uses that they enjoy bliss and happiness.

AC 6071 - bending

AC 6071 [3]
... nothing but good comes from God,
for in so far as a person suffers it,
God bends evil into good.

AC 6057 - the soul = spirit = internal person

AC 6057 [2]
... the internal person has been created to be an angel,
he is heaven in the least form.

AC 6044 - the Lord has created nothing whatever except of the sake of an end

AC 6044
... the Lord has created nothing whatever except of the sake of an end....
In its first origin
the end itself is nothing but the Divine good of the Divine love;
thus it is the Lord Himself...
This being the case,
it is necessary that each and all things
which pertain to the life with a person
should have relation to an end and should look to it.
He who has any rational ability can see
that the memory-knowledges with a person look to truths as their end,
and that the truths look to goods,
and the good look to the Lord as the last and the first end;
as the last end when they look at Him from truths,
and as the first end when they look at Him from good.

AC 6044 - truths which are of faith lead to good which is of charity

AC 6044
... truths which are of faith lead to good which is of charity....

AC 6032 - spiritual heat

AC 6032 [3]
... in its first origin, which origin is from the Lord, spiritual heat is nothing else than the Divine love toward the universal human race, and from this the reciprocal love of man to Him and also toward the neighbor.

AC 6012 & 6013 - the order of things

AC 6012 & 6013
... natural truth cannot be advanced from any other source than spiritual truth,
for its life and force of acting are thence derived.

... without innocence and charity,
natural truth cannot be caused to advance by spiritual truths;
for in order that truth may be genuine,
it must derive its essence and life from charity,
and charity from innocence.
For the interior things which vivify truth
succeed one another in the following order:
inmost is innocence;
next lower is charity;
and lowest is work of charity from truth or according to truth.
The reason why they succeed one another in this order
is that they so succeed one another in the heavens.

... a regenerated man is a heaven in particular on in least form.

As man's external senses are formed
after the whole image of the natural world,
so his internal sense, which belong to his understanding and will,
are formed after the whole image of heaven,
to the end that every man
may be in particular a recipient of Divine good from the Lord,
as heaven is in general.

AC 6000 - John 11: 9, 10 and more

AC 6000 [2]

Jesus said, Are there not twelve hours in the day?
If any one walk in the day, he stumbles not.
But if any one walk in the night, he stumbles,
because the light is not in him.
(John 11: 9, 10)

"twelve hours" denote all the states of truth;
"walking in the day," denotes to live in truth;
and "walking in the night," to live in falsity.

[3]
I must work the works of Him that sent Me while it is day;
the night cometh when no one can work (John 9:4);
"day" denotes truth from good; and "night," falsity from evil.
It is the first time of the church which is meant by "day,"
for then truth is received, because men are in good;
and it is the last time of the church which is meant by "night,"
for then nothing of truth is received, because men are not in good.
For when man is not in good,
that is, when he is not in charity toward the neighbor,
then even if the veriest truths are told him, he receives them not,
for then it is not at all perceived what is true,
because the light of truth
falls into such things as are of the body and the world,
which alone are attended to,
and alone are loved and estimated as real;
but not into such things as are of heaven,
because with such men these are relatively of little or no account.
Thus the light of truth is absorbed and smothered
in what is densely dark, as is the light of the sun in what is black.
This is signified by "the night cometh when no one can work."
It is also such a time at this day.

AC 5992 - the work the angels love to do for the Lord

AC 5992
The angels, through whom the Lord leads and also protects a person, are near his head. It is their office to inspire charity and faith, and to observe in what direction the person's delights turn, and in so far as they can, without interfering with the person's freedom, moderate them and bend them to good.

Infernal spirits continually attack, and the angels protect; such is the order.

[3] Especially do the angels call forth the goods and truth that are with a person, and set them in opposition to the evils and falsities which the evil spirits excite. Thus the person is in the midst, and does not perceive either the evil or the good; and being in the midst, he is in freedom to turn himself either to the one or to the other. By such means do angels from the Lord lead and protect a person, and this every moment, and every moment of a moment; for if the angels were to break their care for a single moment, the person would be precipitated into evil from which he could never afterward be brought out. These things the angels do from the love they have from the Lord, for they perceive nothing more delightful and happy than to remove evils from a person, and lead him to heaven. Scarcely any person believes that the Lord takes such care of a person, and this continually from the first thread of his life to the last of it, and afterward to eternity.

AC 5992 - the work the angels love to do for the Lord

AC 5992
The angels, through whom the Lord leads and also protects a person, are near his head. It is their office to inspire charity and faith, and to observe in what direction the person's delights turn, and in so far as they can, without interfering with the person's freedom, moderate them and bend them to good.

Infernal spirits continually attack, and the angels protect; such is the order.

[3] Especially to the angels call forth the goods and truth that are with a person, and set them in opposition to the evils and falsities which the evil spirits excite. Thus the person is in the midst, and does not perceive either the evil or the good; and being in the midst, he is in freedom to turn himself either to the one or to the other. By such means do angels from the Lord lead and protect a person, and this every moment, and every moment of a moment; for if the angels were to break their care for a single moment, the person would be precipitated into evil from which he could never afterward be brought out. These things the angels do from the love they have from the Lord, for they perceive nothing more delightful and happy than to remove evils from a person, and lead him to heaven. Scarcely any person believes that the Lord takes such care of a person, and this continually from the first thread of his life to the last of it, and afterward to eternity.

AC 5962 - the time of day in heaven

AC 5962 [2, 4]
In heaven . . . spirits and angels have their morning, midday, and evening, also twilight, and again morning, and so on. It is their morning when the Lord is present and blesses them with manifest happiness: they are then in the perception of good. It is their midday when they are in the light of truths; and it is their evening when they are removed therefrom, and then it appears to them that the Lord is more remote and is hidden from them. All who are in heaven undergo and pass through these alternations, and cannot otherwise be continually perfected, for thereby they . . . know what is not happy, because they thereby know what is not good and what is not true.

The concealment which is signified by "Joseph's sending his brethren away and their departing," is called in the Word "evening," and occurs with the angels at the times when they do not perceive the Lord to be present; for there is in heaven a continual perception of the Lord. When they are in a state of non-perception they are not then affected with good, neither do they see truth, as before; this troubles them, but shortly afterward the dawn comes, and so the morning.

AC 5962 - the time of day in heaven

AC 5962 [2, 4]
In heaven . . . spirits and angels have their morning, midday, and evening, also twilight, and again morning, and so on. It is their morning when the Lord is present and blesses them with manifest happiness: they are then in the perception of good. It is their midday when they are in the light of truths; and it is their evening when they are removed therefrom, and then it appears to them that the Lord is more remote and is hidden from them. All who are in heaven undergo and pass through these alternations, and cannot otherwise be continually perfected, for thereby they have relatives, and from the relatives a more perfect conception, since they thereby know what is not happy, because they thereby know what is not good and what is not true.

The concealment which is signified by "Joseph's sending his brethren away and their departing," is called in the Word "evening," and occurs with the angels at the times when they do not perceive the Lord to be present; for there is in heaven a continual perception of the Lord. When they are in a state of non-perception they are not then affected with good, neither do they see truth, as before; this troubles them, but shortly afterward the dawn comes, and so the morning.

AC 5952 & 5957 - how & when the Lord leads us

AC 5952
For the Lord does not openly teach any one truths,
but through good leads to the thinking of what is true,
and unknown to the person
He also inspires the perception and consequent choice
that a thing is true because the Word so declares,
and because it accords therewith.
Thus the Lord adapts truths
according to the reception of good by each person;
and as this takes place according to each person's affection,
thus in freedom,
it is here said "as was pleasing."

AC 5957
... when a person is in humiliation
he can receive good from the Lord,
because he has then separated from the love of self and its evils,
which are the obstacle;
and therefore the Lord wills a state of humiliation in a person
for his own sake;
because when he is in this state
the Lord can flow in with heavenly good.

AC 5948 & 5949 - ends

AC 5948 [2]
... if truths are not regarded as the end,
and good is not cared for,
good at last so vanishes as not to be.

AC 5949 [2 & 4]
... when a person has uses as the end,
he has the Lord as the end....

... God must be always kept before the eyes;
not that He must be constantly thought about,
but that the fear or the love of Him must reign universally,
in which case God is kept before the eyes in every detail.
When this is the case
the person does not think, speak, or do
what is against Him and displeasing to Him;
or if he does,
that which universally reigns, and lies hidden within,
manifests itself and admonishes him.

AC 5937 - perception

AC 5937 [2-3]
There is with every person a capacity of perceiving
whether a thing is so or is not so.
The capacity of drawing a conclusion within himself,
or in his own mind, causes a thing to be perceived.
This capacity is utterly impossible
unless there is influx from the spiritual world.
In this gift one person excels another.

He who would have perception in spiritual things
must be in the affection of truth from good,
and must continually long to know truths.
Thereby his intellectual is enlightened,
and when the intellectual has been enlightened,
then it is given him to perceive something inwardly within himself.

AC 5922 - glory

AC 5922 [3]
"Glory" in the supreme sense is the Lord as to Divine truth,
thus it is the Divine truth which proceeds from the Lord.
But "glory" in the representative sense
is the good of love toward the neighbor, or charity,
which is the external good of the celestial kingdom
and the internal good of the spiritual kingdom of the Lord,
for this good in a genuine sense is the Divine truth in heaven.

AC 5897 - remains are the goods and truths stored up by the Lord for our salvation

AC 5897 [5]
... a person is continually among evils and falsities,
and is held in captivity by them....
The external person, when separated from the internal,
is altogether in these,
and therefore unless the Lord were to gather up the goods and truths
which as occasion offers
are insinuated into a person during the progress of life,
the person could not possibly be saved,
for without remains there is salvation for none.

AC 5886 - giving up all that you have

AC 5886 [4 -6]

The kingdom of the heavens is like unto a treasure hidden in the field; which when found, a man hides, and in his joy he goes away and sells all that he has, and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like unto a merchant man seeing beauteous pearls, which when he had found one precious pearl, went away and sold all that he had, and bought it. (Matthew 8:44-46)

"the kingdom of the heavens" denotes the good and the truth with a person, thus heaven with him;
"field" denotes good;
and "pearl," truth;
"to buy" denotes to procure and appropriate these to himself;
"to sell all that he has," denotes to alienate his own which he had before, thus evils and falsities, for these are of one's one.

Jesus said unto the young prince, Yet you lack one thing; sell all that you have, distribute to the poor, and then will you have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me. Luke 18:22)

in the internal sense by these words is meant that all thing of his own (or proprium or ego/self), which are nothing but evils and falsities, must be alienated, for these things are "all that he has;" and that he should then receive goods and truths from the Lord, which are "treasure in heaven."

... to sell his means would be at this day to make himself a beggar, and to deprive himself of all capacity any longer to exercise charity, besides being unable to avoid placing merit therein....

AC 5881 - a wonderful order

AC 5881
... the order in which memory-knowledges and truths are arranged in a person's memory is unknown to a person, but when it pleases the Lord it is known to the angels. For it is a wonderful order. They cohere as in little bundles, and the little bundles themselves cohere together, and this according to the connection of things which the person had conceived. These coherences are more wonderful than any person can ever believe. In the other life they are sometimes presented to view, for in the light of heaven which is spiritual, such things can be exhibited to the sight of the eye, but not at all in the light of the world. The memory-knowledges and truths are arranged into these fascicular forms soley by the person's loves - into infernal forms by the loves of self and of the world, but into heavenly forms by love toward the neighbor and love to God.


fas·ci·cle

1. A small bundle.

2. One of the parts of a book published in separate sections. Also called fascicule.

3. Botany A bundle or cluster of stems, flowers, or leaves.
(from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/)

AC 5864 - opposition

AC 5864
For, as the delight and bliss of heaven is to good to a person,
and to promote his eternal welfare,
so on the other hand the delight of hell is to do evil to a person,
and to contribute to his eternal ruin.
In such opposition are they.

AC 5832 - How do we lose good and truth?

AC 5832
In order that good may be good
it must have its own truths;
and truths must have their own good
in order to be truths.
Good without truths is not good,
and truths without good are not truths.
Together they form a marriage, which is called the heavenly marriage.
Wherefore if one departs, the other perishes;
and the one may depart from the other
through a tearing in pieces by evils and falsities.

AC 5832 - How do we lose good and truth?

AC 5832
In order that good may be good
it must have its own truths;
and truths must have their own good in order to be truths.
Good without truths is not good,
and truths without good are not truths.
Together they form a marriage, which is called the heavenly marriage.
Wherefore if one departs, the other perishes;
and the one may depart from the other
through a tearing in pieces by evils and falsities.

AC 5826 - How do we find good through truth?

AC 5826 [5]
... in order that a person may be regenerated and become the church,
he must be introduced through truth to good;
and he is introduced when truth becomes truth in the will and in act.
This truth is good,
and is called the good of truth,
and produces new truths continually;
for then for the first time it makes itself fruitful.

The truth which is thence brought forth or made fruitful
is what is called internal truth,
and the good from which it is, is called internal good;
for nothing becomes internal until it has been implanted in the will,
because what is of the will is the inmost of a person.
So long as good and truth are outside of the will,
and in the understanding only, they are outside of a person;
for the understanding is without, and the will is within.

AC 5816 - a little flame

AC 5816 [2]
Good is like a little flame which gives light and illumines,
and causes a person to see, perceive, and believe truths.

AC 5786 - the internal acts through the external

AC 5786
There is an external man, and there is an internal;
the external man is that through which the internal acts;
for the external is only an organ or instrument of the internal.
This being so,
the external must be wholly subordinate and subject to the internal;
and when it is subject,
heaven acts through the internal into the external,
and disposes it according to such things as are of heaven.


And from John 2:23-25:
Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the miraculous signs he was doing and believed in his name. But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men. He did not need man's testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man.

AC 5758 & 5759 - knowing the credit belongs to the Lord

AC 5758 [2]
Therefore to claim truth and good to one's self is contrary to the universal that reigns in heaven, as well as contrary to the acknowledgment that all salvation is of mercy, that is, that man of himself is in hell, but is of mercy drawn out from there by the Lord. Man cannot be in humiliation, nor consequently can he receive the Lord's mercy (for this flows in only in humiliation or into a humble heart), unless he acknowledges that there is nothing but evil from himself, and that all good is from the Lord. Without this acknowledgment a man attributes to himself as merit, and at length as righteousness, whatever he does; for to claim to himself the truth and good which are from the Lord is to make himself righteous. This is the source of many evils; for he then regards self in everything that he does for the neighbor, and when he does this he loves himself above all others, whom he then despises, if not in word, yet in heart.

AC 5759
Moreover every one ought to do what is true and good as if of himself, yet believing that it is from the Lord; and when he does so, then as he grows up and increases in intelligence and faith, he puts off fallacy, and at last acknowledges at heart that his every effort of doing good and thinking truth was and is from the Lord.

AC 5746 & 5747 - evil and good, self and the Lord

AC 5746
... for evil is nothing else than a turning away from good....

AC 5747 [2]
To claim good and truth to one's self,
and to attribute them to one's self for righteousness and merit,
is to take away from the Lord that which is His.

AC 5711- cause, end, order, effect

AC 5711
... for a cause without an end
is a cause in no order,
and where there is no order
nothing is effected.

AC 5704 - The Lord is Divine Good, and Divine Truth proceeds from Him

AC 5704 [2]
... the Lord is nothing but Divine Good;
Divine truth is not in the Lord, but proceeds from Him;
and according to this Divine truth under Divine good
are all the societies in the heavens set in order.

That the Lord is nothing but Divine good,
and that Divine truth is not in Him, but proceeds from Him,
may be illustrated by comparison with the sun of the world.
The sun is nothing but fire,
and light is not in it, but proceeds from it...


The whole of this interesting number about order is posted in the blog under today's Comments.

AC 5700 - Egypt and inverting memory-knowledges

AC 5700
By "Egypt" or the "Egyptians"
in a good sense are signified the memory-knowledges of the church;
but in the opposite sense are signified
the memory-knowledges which are in inverted order,
thus which are contrary to the truths of the church.
That "Egypt" signifies these memory-knowledges,
is because the memory-knowledges of the Ancient Church,
which ere representative and significative of celestial and spiritual things,
and were cultivated among the Egyptians more than among others,
were turned by them into magic;
whereby they completely inverted
the memory-knowledges of the representative church.

[2] Memory-knowledges are said to be in inverted order
when men abuse heavenly order to do evil;
for heavenly order is that good be done to all.
So it comes to pass that when they have thus inverted heavenly order,
they at last deny Divine things, the things of heaven,
and consequently those of charity and faith.
They who become such
know how to reason acutely and skillfully from memory-knowledges,
because they reason from the senses,
and to reason from these is to reason from such things as are external,
that is, from such as are of the body and the world,
which take direct hold of a person's senses and feelings.
Unless such things have been illumined by the light of heaven,
and thereby arranged in an entirely different order,
they put the person in so great an obscurity as to heavenly things
that he not only comprehends none of them,
but even wholly denies, and at last reject them,
and then as far as he may, blasphemes them.

When memory-knowledges are in order,
they are arranged by the Lord in the form of heaven;
but when they are in inverted order,
they are arranged in the form of hell...

AC 5688 - Joseph and his brothers

AC 5668 [3]
All that is related of Joseph and his brethren represents in the supreme sense the glorifying of the Lord's Human, that is, how the Lord made the Human in Him Divine.
... Furthermore, the glorifying of the Lord's Human is the pattern of man's regeneration, and so man's regeneration also is presented in the internal sense of the Word at the same time with the glorification of the Lord. Man's regeneration together with its innumerable mysteries also enters into the angels' wisdom, and affords them happiness according as they apply it to its uses, which are for man's reformation.

AC 5668 - "giving waters" signifies a general influx of truth

AC 2668
A general influx of truth
is the enlightenment
which gives the capacity of apprehending and understanding truth.
This enlightenment is from the light of heaven that is from the Lord,
which light is nothing else than the Divine truth.

apprehending - to become conscious of, as through the emotions or senses; perceive.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

AC 5664 - providence / prudence

AC 5664
... that which is of the Divine providence is not of a person's prudence.

AC 5662 - What is peace?

AC 5662 [2]
Almost every one believes peace to be security from enemies,
and also tranquility at home and among companions.
such peace is not meant in this passage (Genesis 48:18-23),
but a peace which immeasurably transcends it ....
This peace can be bestowed on no one unless he is led by the Lord
and is in the Lord,
that is, in heaven where the Lord is all in all;
for heavenly peace flows in
when the cupidities arising from the love of self and the world
are taken away.
... for they infest a person's interiors,
and at last cause him to make rest consist in unrest,
and peace in annoyances,
because his delight is in evils.
So long as a person is in these
he cannot possibly know what peace is...
because he makes peace consist in the delight of evil,
which is the opposite of peace.

AC 5651 - When the natural is reduced to correspondence & happiness to eternity

AC 5651 [3-4]
Regeneration is nothing else
than that the natural be subjugated,
and the spiritual obtain the dominion;
and the natural is subjugated when it is reduced to correspondence.
When the natural has been reduced to correspondence,
it does not react anymore,
but acts as it is commanded,
and obeys the spiritual,
almost as the acts of the body obey the behest of the will,
and as the speech,
together with the expression of the face,
conforms to the influx of the thought.
From this it is plain that for a person to become spiritual
the natural must needs become as nothing whatever in respect to willing.

But be it known that it is the old natural that must become as nothing,
because this has been formed from evils and falsities;
and when it has become as nothing
the person is then gifted with a new natural,
which is called the spiritual natural --
spiritual from the fact that the spiritual is what acts through it,
and manifests itself through it,
as the cause through the effect.
It is known that every cause is everything of the effect.
So the new natural in its thinking, willing, and producing effect,
is nothing else than the representative of the spiritual.
When this comes to pass
the person receives good from the Lord;
and when he receives good
he is gifted with truths;
and when he is gifted with truths
is is perfected in intelligence and wisdom;
and when he is perfected in intelligence and wisdom
he is blessed with happiness to eternity.

AC 5639 - What is the essence of the spiritual?

AC 5639 [2]
... the spiritual is the very affection of good and truth
for the sake of good and truth,
and not for the sake of self,
and also the affection of what is just and fair
for the sake of what is just and fair,
and not for the sake of self.
When a person feels in himself delight and pleasantness,
and still more if he feels happiness and blessedness,
from these affections,
this is the spiritual in him,
which comes not from the natural,
but from the spiritual word or from heaven,
that is, through heaven from the Lord.

AC 5621 - Wax and stacte. (Genesis 43:11)

AC 5621
By "wax" here is not meant common, but aromatic wax, such as storax.
This wax is signified by the term used in the original language,
and spice also by the same.
So it is plain why this aromatic wax signifies the truth of good;
for all spices, being sweet-scented,
in the internal sense signify the truths which are from good.
This may be seen from the fact
that truths from good are perceived in heaven pleasantly,
like sweet-scented things in the world;
and therefore when the perceptions of the angles are turned into odors,
as of the Lord's good pleasure often happens,
they are then smelled as fragrances from spices and from flowers.
This is the reason why frankincense and incense were compounded
of materials of grateful order, and were employed for a holy use;
and also why aromatics were mixed with the anointing oil.
One who does not know
that such things derive their cause from things perceived in heaven,
may be of the opinion
that they were commanded merely to render outward worship grateful;
but in that case
there would be in them nothing of heaven, or nothing holy,
and consequently
such matters of worship would not have anything Divine in them.

Stacte - A powder from the hardened drops of the fragrant resin found in the bark of the Myrrh bush. The word means "a drop". (from http://www.bible-history.com/tabernacle/TAB4untitled00000181.htm

Storax - the resinous exudate of the Sweetgum, occasionally used in incense or as an aromatic fixative in perfumery (from Wikipedia)

AC 5608 - works of charity and charity

AC 5608 [3]
... the works of charity:
unless charity from affection or the heart is with them,
they are not works of charity;
and unless love to God is within charity,
it is not charity.

AC 5576 - spiritual food (and children in heaven)

AC 5576 [2]
Hunger in the spiritual world or in heaven is not hunger for food, because the angels do not feed upon material food, which is for the body that man carries about in the world; but it is hunger for such food as nourishes their minds. This food, which is called spiritual food, is to understand truth and be wise in good; and wonderful to say the angels are nourished by this food; which has been made evident to me from the fact that after little children who die have been instructed in heaven in the truths of intelligence and the goods of wisdom, they no longer appear as little children, but as adults, and this according to their increase in good and truth; and also from the fact that the angels continually long for the things of intelligence and wisdom, and that when they are in in the evening, that is, in a state in which these things fail, they are so far in what is relatively not happiness, and they then hunger and long for nothing more than the morning may dawn for them afresh, and that they may return into their life of happiness, which is of intelligence and wisdom.

AC 5563 - headaches & AC 5566 - seeing stars

AC 5563
Pains are sometimes felt in the skull, now in one part, now in another....
... such pains come from falsities originating in cupidities....

AC 5566
When shotting stars appear in the other life they signify falsities;
but fixed stars signify truths.

AC 5530 - And behold every one's bundle of silver. (Genesis 42:35)

AC 5530
And behold every one's bundle of silver.

... the signification of a "bundle," as being a setting of order....
...the signification of "silver," as being truth...

That a "bundle" denotes a setting in order is because the truths with a person are disposed and ordered in series. Those most in agreement with his loves are in the midst, those not so much in agreement are at the side, finally those not at all in agreement are rejected to the outermost circumferences. Outside of this series are the things contrary to the loves.

AC 5508 - seeing and believing

AC 5508 [2]
... everything that befalls or happens, which in other words is called accidental, and is ascribed to chance or fortune, is of providence. The Divine providence works thus invisibly and incomprehensibly in order that a person may in freedom ascribe an event either to providence or to chance; for if providence acted visibly and comprehensibly, there would be danger of a person's believing, from what he sees and comprehends, that it is of providence, and afterward changing into the contrary. Thus truth and falsity would be conjoined in the interior person, and truth would be profaned, which profanation is attended with eternal damnation. Therefore it is better for such a person to be kept in unbelief than to be in faith and then recede from it.

AC 5503 - "God's doing"

AC 5503
... everything that God does
can be expressed by no other word than providence.
The reason of this is
that in everything that God or the Lord does
there is the eternal and the infinite,
and these are in the word "providence."

AC 5469 - each of us is a church

AC 5469
... every person must be a church in particular in order to be a part of the general church.

AC 5433 - two masters

AC 5433[2]
... the affection of gain is an earthly affection,
and the affection of truth is a spiritual affection.
One or the other must have the dominion,
for no person can serve two masters.

AC 5427 - the interior can see the exterior but not necessarily the reverse (or converse)

AC 5427[3]
... if there is no intermediate, and especially if there is no correspondence,
the interior person sees and perceives what is going on in the exterior,
and in a measure leads it; but not the converse.
... if the exterior person entirely perverts or extinguishes what flows in through the interior,
the interior person is then deprived of his light which is from heaven
communication heavenward is closed to him;
but communication from hell is opened toward the exterior person.

AC 5411 - being in the light of heaven

AC 5411 [2]
... a person is so far in the light of heaven as he is intelligence,
and that he is so far in intelligence as he is in the truths of faith,
and that he is so far in the truths of faith as he is in the good of love;
consequently a person is so far in the light of heaven
as he is in the good of love.

AC 5402 - two ways to learn the truths of faith

AC 5402 [2]
There are two ways of procuring the truths which are of faith -
by means of doctrinal things,
and by means of the Word.

When a man procures them only by doctrinal things,
he then has faith in those who have drawn them from the Word,
and he confirms them in himself to be true because others have said so;
thus he does not believe them from his own faith, but from that of others.
But when he procures them for himself from the Word,
and thereby confirms them in himself to be true,
he then believes them because they are from the Divine,
and thus believes them from faith given from the Divine.

Everyone who is within the church
first procures the truths which are of faith from doctrinal things,
and also must so procure them,
because he has not yet sufficient strength of judgment
to enable him to see them himself from the Word;
but in this case these truths are to him nothing but memory-knowledges.

But when he is able to view them from his own judgment,
if he then does not consult the Word in order to see
from it whether they are true,
they remain as memory-knowledges;
while if he does consult the Word
from the affection and end of knowing truths,
he then, when he has found them,
procures for himself the things of faith from the genuine fountain,
and they are appropriated to him from the Divine.

AC 5386 - conscience-mongers

AC5386
... they raise scruples in matters where there need be none....
What true conscience is, they know not,
because they make everything that comes up a matter of conscience;
for when any scruple or doubt is suggested,
if the mind is anxious and dwells on it,
there are never wanting things to strengthen the doubt
and make it burdensome.

AC 5368 - What he said to you, do. (Genesis 41:55)

AC 5368
What he said to you, do.
By this is signified that good is adjoined to truth in the natural,
provided that the natural applies itself and obeys.
... it is the internal person that should command,
and the external that should obey,
and that does obey when the person has not the world as the end,
but heaven, and not self but the neighbor,
consequently when he regards bodily and worldly things
as means and not as the end;
and he so regards them when he loves his neighbor more than himself,
and the things of heaven more than those of the world.
When this is the case, the natural obeys;
the natural is the same as the external person.

AC 5360 - famine - the lack of the knowledges of good and truth

AC 5360
That a famine denotes such a lack, or desolation,
is because celestial and spiritual food
are nothing else than good and truth.
These are what angels and spirits are nourished by,
and what they hunger for when hungry,
and thirst for when thirsty;
and therefore also material food corresponds thereto --
as bread to celestial love,
and wine to spiritual love,
as well as everything that pertains to bread or food,
and wine or drink.
When therefore there is a lack of such things,
there is a "famine,"
and in the Word this is called "desolation" and "vastation" -
"desolation" when truths fail,
and "vastation" when goods fail.

AC 5356 - the uses of temptations

AC 5356
Temptations remove the loves of self and of the world, thus evils;
on the removal of which the affection of good and truth flows in from the Lord.

Temptations also give quality to the perception of good and truth,
by means of the opposite things which evil spirits then infuse;
and it is by perceiving opposites that we get relatives,
from which come all quality;
for no one knows what is good without also knowing what is not good,
nor what is true without knowing what is not true.

Temptations also confirm goods and truths,
for the person then fights against evils and falsities,
and by conquering comes into a stronger affirmative.

Moreover by means of temptations evils and falsities are subdued,
so that they no longer venture to rise up;
and in this way evils and falsities are rejected to the sides,
and there hang, but drooping downward;
while goods with truths are in the midst,
and according to the zeal of affection are lifted upward,
thus to heaven toward the Lord, by whom they are lifted up.

AC 5342 - quality & essence

AC 5342 [3]
... truths give quality to good,
and good gives essence to truths....

AC 5329 - the presence of angels

AC 5329
... there is a correspondence of all things in the world
with those in heaven;
the angels perceive heavenly things
when a person perceives worldly ones.
Unless this were the case
no angel from heaven could possibly be with a person.
But in order that angels may be with a person,
the Word has been given,
in which the angels may perceive a Divine holiness
which they can communicate
to the person with whom they are present.

AC 5321 - "chariots"

AC 5321
... the signification of a "chariot," as being the doctrine of good and truth...

That everything of the doctrine of good and truth is from this source
(the Divine truth from the Lord's Divine Human)
is because the Lord is doctrine itself,
for everything of doctrine proceeds from Him,
and everything of doctrine treats of Him;
for all doctrine treats of the good of love and of the truth of faith.
These are from the Lord,
and therefore the Lord is not only in them, but also is both.
From this it is evident that the doctrine that treats of good and truth,
treats of the Lord only;
and that it proceeds from His Divine Human.

AC 5307 - the Lord is called the "heavenly Joseph"

AC 5307 [2]
For the Lord is represented by Abraham, and also by Isaac, as well as by Jacob, and He is also represented by Moses and Elijah, by Aaron, by David, besides by many others in the Word, and yet not in the same way by one as by another.

By Abraham the Lord is represented as to the Divine Itself,
by Isaac as to the Divine rational,
by Jacob as to the Divine natural,
by Moses as to the law or historic Word,
by Elijah as to the prophetic Word,
by Aaron as to the priesthood,
and by David as to royalty.

But what is represented by Joseph...
is called "the celestial of the spiritual from the natural,"
the only worlds by which it can be expressed.
For the celestial is good from the Divine,
and the spiritual is truth from that good,
and thus is the truth of the good from His Divine Human.
This the Lord was when He lived in the world;
but when He had glorified Himself,
He passed above it, and became the Divine good itself
or Jehovah even as to the Human.

AC 5287 - proportions

AC 5287 [2]
... in proportion as anyone loves himself more than others,
in the same proportion he is less wise.

AC 5280 - What are the truths of faith?

AC 5280 [2]
The knowledges of good from the Word,
or from doctrine therefrom,
are called the truths of faith,
because all the truths of faith spring from good,
and flow to good,
for they look to good as the end.

The first state of reformation is covered in sections 3 & 4. Interesting! You can find them in the comments under this quote on the blog.

AC 5270 - during reformation

AC 5270 [2]
During his reformation, a person first learns truths from the Word or from doctrine, and stores them up in the memory. When one who cannot be reformed has learned truths and stored them up in the memory, he believes that this is sufficient; but he is much mistaken. The truths he has acquired must be initiated and conjoined with good; and this cannot be done so long as the evils of the love of self and the love of the world remain in the natural man.

AC 5246 - why you feel better when you clean your room

AC 5246 [2]
A state of temptation, in respect to the state after it, is also like the condition of a pit or prison - squalid and unclean; for when a person is being tempted, unclean spirits are near him, and surround him, and excite the evils and falsities with him, and also hold him in them and exaggerate them, even to despair. So it is that the person is then in squalor and uncleanness. Moreover when this state is presented to view in the other life (for all spiritual states can there be presented to the sight) it appears like a thick mist exhaled from unclean places, and a stench from it is also perceived. Such is the appearance of the sphere that encompasses one who is in temptation, and also in vastation, that is, who is in a pit in the lower earth.
[3] But when the state of temptation ceases, the mist is dispersed, and the sky clears. The reason of this is that by means of temptation the falsities and evils with a person are laid open and removed; when they are laid open that mist appears, but when they are removed the clear sky appears. The change of this state is also signified by Joseph's "shaving himself and changing his garments."

AC 5244 - when the natural is ready

AC 5244
... when the state is full,
that is, when all things have been prepared in the natural
for receiving influx from the interior or higher degree,
and for applying to itself what flows in,
then the natural has an inclination,
that is, an affection, for receiving.
In this way the one is accommodated to the other
when a person is being made new by the Lord.

AC 5228 - What is spiritual perception?

AC 5228
... at this day it is wholly unknown what spiritual perception is; and what is unknown does not enter into the apprehension however it may be described; for perception is nothing else than the speech or thought of the angels who are with a person. When this speech or thought flows in, it becomes the perception that a thing is so, or is not so, but only with those who are in the good of love and of charity, for it flows in through good. With these this perception produces thoughts, for to them what is perceptive is the general of thought.

AC 5225 - in the spiritual world

AC 5225
... in the spiritual world, or in heaven,
not persons but things come into view,
for persons limit the idea,
and concentrate it upon something finite;
whereas things do not limit and concentrate on it,
but extend it to the infinite, thus to the Lord.

AC 5214 - memory-knowledges & uses

AC 5214
The memory-knowledges of no use
are those which have no other end than glory and pleasure.
These ends are of no use,
because they do not benefit the neighbor.

AC 5207 - good & truth

AC 5207
...as fast as good is conjoined with the truths, the falsities take flight.

AC 5194 - "two"

AC 5194
That "two" signifies conjunction is because all things in general and in particular in the spiritual world, and consequently in the natural world, have reference to two things, namely, good and truth - to good as what acts and flows in, and to truth as what suffers and receives; and because they have reference to these two, and nothing is produced unless the two make a one by a certain image of marriage, therefore conjunction is signified by "two".

AC 5173 - an inward active force

AC 5173 [2 & 3]
... the truth is that in all and each of the things of nature
and her three kingdoms
there is an inward active force from the spiritual world;
and unless this were so,
nothing whatever in the natural world could act as cause and effect,
and consequently nothing could be produced.
... for to think and will is spiritual,
and to act and be moved is natural.