AC 7988, 7989 - "Jehovah Zebaoth" & "watches to Jehovah"

AC 7988 [5]
As from truths and goods the angles are called "the armies of Jehovah,"
and so also the sun, moon, and stars;
and as all truth and good proceed from the Lord;
therefore in the Word the Lord is called "Jehovah Zebaoth,"
that is, "of armies".
He is so called also from the fact that He fights for man against the hells.

AC 7989
... the signification of the "watches to Jehovah,"
as being the presence of the Lord and thence protection;
for by the presence of the Lord
those are enlightened who are in good and thence truth...
and also by the presence of the Lord
those are brought out from damnation
who are to be raised into heaven,
for they are withheld from evil and are kept in good,
and this by a strong force from the Lord....

AC 7973 - 600,000

AC 7973
About six hundred thousand on foot that were men. (Exodus 12:37)

That this signifies all things of the truth and good of faith in one complex,
is evident from the signification of the number "six hundred thousand;"
for this number arises from six and also from twelve,
and "twelve" signifies all things of faith and charity.
It is for this reason that the sons of Jacob were twelve,
and that their posterity were distinguished into twelve tribes,
and also that the twelve disciples were adopted by the Lord, namely,
to represent all things of faith and charity.

[6]
That this number signifies such things scarcely any one can believe,
for the reason that it is a matter of history,
and everything historical keeps the mind continually in the external sense,
and withdraws it from the internal sense.
Nevertheless this number has such a signification,
for there is not even a syllable, nor yet one jot or point in the Word,
which is not in itself holy, because it infolds in itself what is holy.
Every one sees that there is nothing holy in the mere historical fact.

AC 7967 - delightful truths

AC 7967
All the truths that enter with a person have been conjoined with some delight,
for truths without delight are not of any one's life.

AC 7935 - the interior perception of truth, which perception is of conscience

AC 7935
... those who are of the spiritual church
and are liberated by the Lord,
in that this truth must remain fixed in their minds;
that their salvation ought to be accepted as solely from the Lord.
The perception of this truth is of conscience;
for they who are of the spiritual church have not perception
as have those who are of the celestial church,
but in place of it they have conscience.
Conscience with them is born and formed
from the truths of the church wherein they have been born,
which truths have been received by them in childhood and afterward,
and have been confirmed by life,
and in this way have become matters of faith.
To act according to these truths is to act according to conscience,
and to act contrary to them is to act contrary to conscience.
They are fixed in the interior memory as if written there,
and at last are so to speak things that have been impressed in infancy,
which afterward appear quite familiar and as it were innate,
just as do the speech, thoughts, recollections, various reflections,
and, in external matters, the gait, gestures, countenance
and other things into which one is not born, but is introduced by habits.
When the truths of faith also have been impressed in this way,
which takes place in the interior man,
then they in like manner become familiar,
and at last, being as it were innate,
impel the man to think, to will, and to act according to them.
This part of the life is called conscience, and is the life of the spiritual man,
which is to be valued in proportion
as the truths from which he thinks are genuine truths of faith,
and as the goods from which he acts are genuine goods of charity.

AC 7914 - compel

AC 7914
For the good of innocence,
which is the good of love to the Lord,
is not received by the man of the spiritual church
unless he compels himself;
because it can with difficulty be believed by him
that the Lord is the only God,
and also that His Human is Divine....

AC 7902 - falsity can be removed

AC 7902
Innocence
consists in acknowledging that in one's self there is nothing but evil,
and that all good if from the Lord;
and also in believing
that a person does not know or perceive anything from himself,
but from the Lord, thus also the truth which is of faith.
When a person is in the state,
then falsity can be removed from him,
and truth can be insinuated by the Lord.
This state is what is signified by the unleavened things,
and also by the eating of the paschal lamb.

AC 7884 - worship according to the order of heaven

AC 7884
By worship according to the order of heaven
is meant all practicing of good according to the Lord's precepts.
By the worship of God at this day
is chiefly meant the oral worship in a temple,
both morning and evening.
But the worship of God does not consist essentially in this,
but in a life of uses;
this latter worship is according to the order of heaven.
Oral worship is also worship,
but it is of no avail whatever
unless
there is the worship that belongs to the life;
for this worship is of the heart;
and oral worship, that it may be worship, must proceed from this.

precepts - laws, commands

Blessed New Church Day, everyone!

AC 7857 - don't go back

AC 7857
When a person is being regenerated,
the good with him proceeds from the truth of faith;
for he then acts in accordance with truth;
not from the affection of truth,
but from obedience,
because it has been so commanded.
Afterward however, when he has been regenerated,
he does what is good from affection, thus from love.
These two states with people are precisely distinguished in the Word,
for the reason that a person cannot be in both states at the same time.
He who is in the first state cannot enter into the other
until he has been regenerated;
and he who is in the second state
must not betake himself to the former.
If any one so betakes himself,
he loses the affection of doing what is good from love,
and relapses into the state of faith, which had been of service to him...
and he also relapses beyond this state.

AC 7836 & 7840 - good & truth working for regeneration

AC 7836
... "the truth of good,"
... by this is meant the truth which is from good.
For when they who are of the spiritual church are being regenerated,
they are introduced to the good of charity
by means of the truth of faith;
but when they have been introduced to the good which is of charity,
the truths which are afterward born
are called the "truths of good."

AC 7840
In every good there must be innocence that it may be good;
without innocence good is as if without its soul.
The reason is
that the Lord flows in by means of innocence,
and by means of it
enlivens the good with those who are being regenerated.
The good which innocence enlivens is internal and external;
internal good is with those who are called men of the internal church;
but external good is with those who are men of the external church.
Men (people) of the internal church
are they who have qualified their good by means of exterior truths,
such as are those of the literal sense of the Word.
People of the internal church
are they who do what is good to the neighbor from the affection of charity;
but people of the external church are they who do it from obedience.
Every person while being regenerated
first becomes a person of the external church,
and afterward a person of the internal church.

AC 7828 - the source of salvation

AC 7828
... the glorification and resurrection of the Lord as to His Human
is the source of all salvation.

AC 7795, 7796 - the choice for hell

AC 7795 [2]
That before the evil are condemned and let down into hell
they undergo so many states,
it is altogether unknown in the world.
It is believed that a person is at once either condemned or saved,
and that this is effected without any process;
but the case is otherwise.
Justice reigns there,
and no one is condemned until he himself knows,
and is inwardly convinced, that he is in evil,
and that it is utterly impossible for him to be in heaven.
His own evils are also laid open to him,
according to the words of the Lord:

There is nothing covered up, that shall not be revealed;
or hidden, that shall not be known.
Wherefore whatsoever you have said in the darkness
shall be heard in the light;
and that which you have spoken in the ear in the bedchambers
shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
(Luke 7:2.3; Matthew 10:26,27; Mark 4:22)

AC 7796
... the Divine vastates no one;
but the evil person vastates himself
by rendering himself determined against truth Divine,
extinguishing, rejecting, or perverting it;
and by turning the good Divine which continually flows in, into evil.
This evil then is that which vastates...

AC 7779 - willing and acting

AC 7779 [3]
The life of a person is his love,
and that which he loves
he wills and intends,
and that which he wills and intends,
he does.
This is the being of a person,
but not that which he knows and thinks and does not will.
This being of a person cannot in any wise be changed
into another being
by thinking about mediation and salvation;
but by regeneration anew;
and this is not effected by thinking and speaking,
but by willing and acting.

AC 7752, 7756, 7757, 7770 - more on the Doctrine of Charity

AC 7752
All things in the universe bear relation to Good and Truth.
That which does not bear relation to good and truth
is not in Divine order;
and that which does not bear relation to both together,
produces nothing.
Good is that which produces,
and truth is that by which it produces.

AC 7756
The good which is of charity enters through the soul into a person,
but the truth which is of faith enters through the hearing;
the former flows in immediately from the Lord,
but the latter mediately through the Word.
. . . the way by which the good of charity enters is called the internal way;
and the way by which the truth of faith enters is called the external way.

AC 7757
The conjunction of the good of charity with the truth of faith
is effected in the interiors of a person.
The good itself which flows in from the Lord adopts truth there,
and appropriates it to itself,
and thereby causes the good with the person to be good,
and the truth to be truth;
or the charity to be charity,
and the faith to be faith.
Without this conjunction charity is not charity, but only natural goodness;
neither is faith faith,
but only the memory-knowledge of such things as are of faith,
and in some cases
a persuasion that a thing is so for the sake of earning gain or honor.

AC 7770 [3]
. . . with the evil
the knowledges of good and truth are applied to evil uses,
and with the good
the knowledges of good and truth are applied to good uses;
the knowledges are the same,
but the application to uses effects their quality with each person.

AC - 7747 - sincerity

AC 7747
. . . for they who are sincere
do not wish to speak
or even think
anything
which others may not know . . .

whereas they who are not willing
that others should know what they speak,
pass judgment on others,
think ill of them and well of themselves,
and at last contract such a habit
that they think and speak ill even of the church,
of heaven, (even) of the Lord Himself.

AC 7710 - nothing but good proceeds from the Lord

AC 7710
... the Lord is continually setting heaven in order,
and endowing those who are there,
and those who newly arrive,
with celestial and spiritual good....

... nothing but good proceeds from the Lord,
and He does not vastate the evil,
still less cast them into hell,
but that they themselves do this.

AC 7710 - nothing but good proceeds from the Lord

AC 7710
... the Lord is continually setting heaven in order,
and endowing those who are there,
and those who newly arrive,
with celestial and spiritual good....

... nothing but good proceeds from the Lord,
and the He does not vastate the evil,
still less cast them into hell,
but that they themselves do this.

AC 7680 - What is perception?

AC 7680
Perception is to see that truth is truth, and good good;
and also that evil is evil, and falsity falsity;

but it is not perception to see truth as falsity and good as evil;
or the reverse, evil as good and falsity as truth.
They who do this, instead of perception, have fantasy....

AC 7663 - With our flock and with our herd will we go. (Exodus 10:9)

AC 7663
By the words in this verse, that
"they would go with their boys and their old men,
and with their sons and with their daughters,
and with their flock and with their herd,"
is meant in the internal sense everything that belongs to the church,
both the external and the internal church.

The things of the external church are meant by "boys," and "herd;"
and the things of the internal church by "old men," "daughters," and "flock;"
"daughters," the affections of good;
and "flock," good itself, which are of the internal church....

AC 7640 - "How long do you refuse to be humbled before Me?" (Exodus 10:3)

AC 7640
How long do you refuse to be humbled before Me?
... there are two things in humiliation, namely,
the acknowledgment of self, that it is nothing but evil,
and that relatively to the Divine it is as nothing;
and the acknowledgment of the Divine,
that it is nothing but good, and is infinite.
These two things are not possible with the evil,
because they are in the love of self.
If they humble themselves it is either from fear,
or that they may be honored or enriched....
As humiliation is not possible with the evil,
therefore in the internal sense by
"to be humbled" is signified obedience,
and thus by "refusing to be humbled" is signified no obedience.

AC 7632 - "made heavy the heart of Pharaoh"

AC 7632
Its being said that Jehovah "made heavy the heart of Pharaoh,"
in the internal sense signifies that Pharaoh made heavy his own heart.
In ancient times, for the sake of the simple,
all evil was attributed to Jehovah;
and this because the simple could not know,
and most of them could not comprehend,
how that which came to pass
could come from any other source than Jehovah;
nor how it is to be understood that Jehovah permits
the diabolical crew to occasion evil,
and why He does not prevent it,
when yet He has all power.
As the simple could not apprehend this,
nor scarcely even the intelligent,
it was therefore said, and believed by many,
that even evil had sprung from Jehovah.
This is a common thing in the Word,
the sense of the letter of which is in accordance with the faith of the simple.

AC 7624 - united

AC 7624
When Good and Truth proceed from the Lord
they are completely united,
and so united as to be not two, but one.
Consequently they are one in heaven;
and because they are one in heaven,
heaven is an image of the Lord.
It would be the same with the church
if charity and faith therein were a one.

AC 7601 - "flax"

AC 7601 [portions of 2, 3, & 5]

It is from representatives in heaven that "flax" signifies truth.

In heaven
they who are in the truth of the natural
appear clothed in white,
which white appears as of linen.
The truth itself of the natural is also there represented
as if woven from the purer threads of the flax.
These threads appear like threads of silk -
bright, beautifully translucent, and soft;
and the clothing made of them appears similar
if the truth which is so represented is from good;
but on the other hand these threads, which are like those of flax,
do not appear translucent, nor bright, nor soft,
but hard and brittle, and yet white,
if the truth which is so represented is not from good.

As "flax" signified the truth of the exterior natural,
and the exterior natural is what clothes the interiors,
therefore this truth is what was represented by the linen garments
with which the angels were clothed;
and also by the garments of flax (or linen) with which Aaron was clothed
when he ministered in the holy place...

AC 7599 - looking towards, or away from, the Lord

AC 7599
... the Lord is "Jehovah" in the Word...
... by "the face of Jehovah" is signified mercy,
and from this, peace and every good,
and in the opposite sense
no mercy, no peace, and no good.
... because the evil turn themselves away from Jehovah, or the Lord,
for they turn themselves away from the good which is of charity,
and from the truth which is of faith, in which the Lord is;
and then the things that belong to the Lord are behind them,
and those which belong to themselves are in front of them;
and that which is behind them they neither see nor care for.
From this comes all evil to man, consequently unhappiness and hell.

AC 7573 - "the voice of Jehovah"

AC 7573 [5-6]
... "the voice of Jehovah" denotes truth Divine and its power,
thus also the Word, because this is truth Divine

A strong angel coming down cried with a great voice,
and when he cried the seven thunders uttered their voices.
I was about to write,
but I heard a voice from heaven saying to me,
Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered,
and write them not. (Revelation 5:1,3,4)

"voices" denote truth Divine;
"thunders," those who carry it and bring it from heaven to earth.
Every one can see that by "thunders" and "voices" are signified Divine things,
and are called "the voices of Jehovah,"
it is evident that they denote Divine truth.
It was for this reason that when Jehovah
descended upon Mount Sinai and promulgated Divine truth,
there were voices, lightnings, and thunders (Exodus 19:16: 220:18)

AC 7564 - goods & truths from the Lord or not from the Lord

AC 7564
Goods and truths are either of the Lord or not of the Lord.
Those which are of the Lord are those which the man does
for the sake of his neighbor,
for the sake of his country,
for the sake of the church,
and for the sake of the Lord's kingdom,
thus for the sake of good and truth itself,
and especially for the sake of the Lord.

These goods and truths are those which are of the Lord;
but the truths and goods which are not of the Lord
are those which a man does for the sake of himself as the end,
and for the sake of the world as the end.
These latter sometimes appear like the former in the outward form,
but in the inward form they are quite different;
for these lead to self. . . .

AC 7554 - bad smells

AC 7553
... for all bad smell comes from evils mingled with goods,
and falsities mingled with truths.

AC 7553 - rain

AC 7553
A "rain" in general signifies a blessing,
and in the opposite sense a curse;
when a blessing,
it signifies the influx and reception
of the truth that is faith and of the good that is of charity,
for this is a blessing;
but when it signifies a curse,
it signifies falsity that is contrary to the truth of faith,
and evil that is contrary to the good of charity,
for these are a curse.

AC 7506 - the truths and goods of faith

AC 7506 [2]
The truths and goods of faith
with those who are of the church and are saved,
are from the good of charity;

and as the affection of charity is the spiritual itself,
these truths and goods are spiritual,
and flow in through heaven from the Lord,
for the interiors of those who receive them are open to heaven.

AC 7494 - life from the Divine

AC 7494
... the life which is from the Divine is to will good and believe truth.

AC 7463 - "the law of Jehovah" denotes truth Divine

AC 7463 [4]
..."the law" in a wide sense is the whole Word,
in a less wide sense the historic Word,
in a still less wide sense the Word written by Moses,
and in a narrow sense the commandments of the Decalogue.
From all this it can now be seen why it is said that
Moses represents both the law Divine and also truth Divine.

AC 7437 - how affection effects

AC 7437 [2-3]
As regards thought from evils to falsities,
be it known that they who are in evils
cannot do otherwise than think from them to falsities;
for evils are of their will
and consequently of their love,
and falsities are of their thought
and consequently of their faith.
For what a man wills, he loves;
and what he loves, he confirms and defends;
and evils cannot be confirmed and defended
except by means of falsities....

It is the same also with those who are in a state of good,
in that they cannot do otherwise than think from good to truths;
for good and truth are conjoined,
and also evil and falsity,
insomuch that he who knows that any one is in good,
can know that he is in the truth of his good;

and that he who is in evil is in the falsity of his evil;
and that he is in this falsity
in proportion as he excels in the gift of reasoning and perverting,
and also in proportion as he is in the fear of
the loss of reputation for the sake of gain and honors,
and in proportion as he desires to be in the freedom of doing evil.
Strange to say,
after such persons have for some time defended evils by means of falsities,
they at last persuade themselves that evils are good,
and that falsities are truths.

AC 7424 - What is the difference between interior and exterior evils?

AC 7424
Interior evils are distinguished from exterior
by the fact that interior evils are those which are of the thought and will;
and exterior evils are those which are of act.

AC 7392 - doing mischief vs. imparting benefits

AC 7392 [3]
In the other life all those perceive delight in doing mischief who in the world do not impart benefits to the neighbor for the sake of the neighbor, nor to their country for the sake of their country, nor to the church for the sake of the church, but for the sake of themselves; thus who do not do truth and good for the sake of truth and good.... From this it is that they are in hell, for all who are there love to do mischief, whereas all who are in heaven love to impart benefits.

AC 7381 - internal law & external law

AC 7381
... influx from the Divine takes place through the internal into the external.
The internal law is the truth Divine itself such as it is in heaven,
and the external law is the truth Divine such as it is on earth;
thus the internal law is truth accommodated to angels,
and the external law is truth accommodated to men.

... the internal law which Moses represents is truth accommodated to angels,
and the external law which Aaron represents is truth accommodated to men...

AC 7349 - Thus said Jehovah, Let My people go, that they may serve Me. (Exodus 7:26)

AC 7349
Thus said Jehovah, Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

... this signifies that they should leave those who are of the church to worship their God in freedom...

That it denotes to worship in freedom, is because there could be no worship where falsities were infesting; and because all worship which is truly worship must be in freedom.

AC 7344 - "digging waters to drink round about the river"

AC 7344
... "digging waters to drink round about the river,"
as being to search out truths which they might apply to falsities.
That truths cannot be applied to falsities by mere falsities,
is because truths and falsities are absolute opposites,
and opposites cannot be applied
unless there are intermediates which conjoin.

The intermediates which conjoin are the fallacies of the external senses,
and also the things that have been said in the Word according to the appearance.
Take for example, that nothing but what is good is from the Lord,
and never anything that is evil:
this truth is falsified by the fallacies that the Lord can take away evil if He will,
by His omnipotence,
and that because He does not take it away,
He is therefore the cause of it,
and thus evil too is from the Lord;
and by what has been said in the Word according to the appearance,
that Jehovah or the Lord is angry, punishes, condemns, casts into hell;
when yet it is the evil who do this to themselves....

AC 7319 - the the river shall stink. (Exodus 7:18)

AC 7319
Be it known that in the other life nothing is more abominable,
and consequently nothing has a more offensive stench,
than profaned truth;
it is like the stench of a carcass, which arises when living flesh dies.

AC 7295, 7298 - the balance of freedom

AC 7295
... even evil men have also angels with them,
in order that they may be able, if they will,
to turn themselves to heaven,
and to receive influx and so be reformed.

AC 7298 [2]
... it is according to the laws of order
that no one ought to be persuaded about truth in a moment,
that is to say,
that truth should be so confirmed in a moment
as to leave no doubt whatever about it;
because the truth which is so impressed becomes persuasive truth,
and is devoid of any extension,
and also of any yielding quality.
Such truth is represented in the other life as hard,
and as such that it does not admit good into it
so as to become applicable.

AC 7272 & 7273- evil and the order of salvation

AC 7272 [3]
In a word, the evils of falsity
are as many as are the falsities of faith and of worship.
These evils condemn,
yet not so much as do the evils which originate in evil.
The evils which originate in evil
are those which are from cupidity
rising up from the love of self and of the world.

cupidity - excessive desire, especially for wealth; covetousness or avarice.
from the Online Dictionary

AC 7273
The order of truth Divine,
which is for the evil who are being condemned,
differs from that of truth Divine for the good who are being saved.
The difference is,
that the order for the evil who are being condemned,
is of truth Divine separated from Divine good, thus from mercy;
because they have not received the Divine good,
and thus have rejected mercy.
But the order which is for the good who are being saved,
is of truth Divine conjoined with Divine good, thus mercy;
because they have received the Divine good,
thus the mercy of the Lord.

AC 7265 - Genesis 7 the plagues: rod into a serpent, water into blood, frogs

AC 7265
In this chapter the subject treated of in the internal sense is the first three degrees of vastation.

The first, which is that mere fallacies began to reign with them, whence came falsities, is described by the serpent into which the rod of Aaron was turned.

The second, which is that truths themselves became falsities with them, and that falsities became truths, is described by the blood into which the waters were turned.

The third degree, which is that from falsities they reasoned against the truths and goods of the church, is described by the frogs out of the river.

AC 7255, 7256 - What is good? What is evil?

AC 7255
Inasmuch as good makes heaven with man, and evil makes hell,
it is of the utmost importance to know what good is, and what evil is.
It has already been said that good is that which belongs to love to the Lord,
and to charity toward the neighbor;
and that evil is that which belongs to the love of self and the love of the world.
Hence it follows that it is from the love,
and from these alone, that it can be known what good is, and what evil is.

AC 7256
All things in the universe which are according to Divine order
have relation to good and truth;
and all things in the universe which are contrary to Divine order
have relation to evil and falsity.

AC 7236 - the faces of angels

AC 7236 [2 &3]
From the heavens (as all there have been classified according to goods)
it can be seen how manifold and various good is,
for it is so various
that one is never in the like good with another...
just as one person has not the like face of another;
moreover, in the heavens good forms the faces of the angels.

That which makes good so various is truth;
for when truth is conjoined with good it qualifies it.
The reason why truth is so manifold and various
that it can so greatly vary good,
is that truths are countless....

AC 7236 - the faces of angels

AC 7236 [2 &3]
From the heavens (as all there have been classified according to goods)
it can be seen how manifold and various good is,
for it is so various
that one is never in the like good with another...
just as one person has not the like face of another;
moreover, in the heavens good forms the faces of the angels.

That which makes good so various is truth;
for when truth is conjoined with good it qualifies it.
The reason why truth is so manifold and various that it can so greatly vary good,
is that truths are countless....

AC 7231 - Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Aaron, and Moses - the growth of the spiritual church

AC 7231
Reuben represents faith in the understanding...
Simeon represents faith in the will and in act...
Levi, charity...
Aaron, the doctrine of the church...
and Moses, the law from the Divine.

The reason why mention is here made of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and their sons, and not the rest of the fathers of the tribes with their sons in order, cannot be known except from the internal sense. That this enumeration was made in this chapter to make known the nativity of Aaron and Moses is evident; but for this the genealogy of Levi would have sufficed, for the genealogy of Reuben, Simeon, and their sons contributes nothing thereto.

But the reason (which is seen from the internal sense alone)
is that the subject treated of is the spiritual church,
which is represented by the sons of Israel,
which church begins with man
by means of faith in knowledge and next in understanding,
which faith is represented by Reuben and his sons afterward,

when the church grows with man,
this faith passes into the will,
and from the will into act,
and then the man wills the truth which is of faith and does it
because it has been so commanded in the Word;
this stage of faith is represented by Simeon;

lastly, in his will, which is new,
there is perceived the affection of charity,
so that he wills to do what is good, not as before from faith,
but from charity toward the neighbor;
for when the man is being regenerated thus far,
he is then a man of the spiritual church,
for the church is then in him;
this charity with its affection is what is represented by Levi.
Hence then it is that the families of Reuben and also of Simeon are enumerated, and lastly the family of Levi, by whom as before said is represented charity, which is the very spiritual of the church.

Aaron represents the external of this church, and Moses the internal; the internal of the church is called the law from the Divine, and the external is called the derivative doctrine.
The law from the divine, which is the internal of the church,
is also the Word in the internal sense;
and the derivative doctrine is the Word in the external sense.

AC 7217 - For distress of spirit.

AC 7217
...this state is signified by the burden laid on the sons of Israel by Pharaoh,
that they should search for themselves straw to make brick...
...they who are in a state near to despair are in internal anxiety,
and are then actually in shortness of breath.
In the external sense this condition is a compression of the breast,
and from this as it were a difficulty of breathing;
but in the internal sense it is anxiety on account of the deprivation
of the truth which is of faith, and of the good which is of charity,
and from this is a state near to despair.

AC 7193, 7195, 7197 - temptations and heavenly life

AC 7193 [3]
... it is from Divine order that comfortings follow the pains of temptations,
just as morning and dawn follow evening and night.

AC 7195
... the Lord is more present in a state of temptations
than out of this state,
although it appears otherwise.

AC 7197
In the other life
heaven is given to every one
in accordance with the things of faith and charity in him,
for charity and faith make heaven with every one;
but when it is said that charity and faith make haven,
there is meant the life of charity and faith.

AC 7186 - the Lord's mercy

AC 7186
They who believe that man can be immediately introduced into heaven,
and that this is solely of the Lord's mercy, are very much mistaken.
If this were possible,
all whatsoever who are in hell would be raised into heaven,
for the Lord's mercy extends to all.
But it is according to order that every one carries with him
his life which he had lived in the world,
and his state in the other life is according to this;
and that the mercy of the Lord flows in with all,
but is diversely received,
and by those who are in evil, is rejected....

AC 7166 - "Why is this that Thou hast sent me?"

AC 7166
For the law from the Divine is the law of order,
and the law of order concerning those who are in a state of infestations
from falsities is that they must be infested even to despair,
and unless they are infested to despair,
the uttermost of the use of the infestation is lacking.

That temptation is increased even to despair is very evident
-- from the Lord's temptation in Gethsemane;
-- and also afterward upon the cross,
in that it was carried even to a state of despair;
and the temptation of the Lord is a pattern of the temptation of the faithful;
wherefore the Lord says
that whosoever would follow Him must take up his cross;
for the glorification of the Lord is a pattern of the regeneration of man,
and regeneration is effected chiefly by means of temptation.

AC 7130. 7131 - there are two minds in a person

AC 7130
There are two minds in man;
one is the natural, and the other the rational mind;
the natural mind is the mind of the external man,
but the rational mind is the mind of the internal man.
The things of the natural mind are called memory-knowledges,
but those of the rational mind are called intellectual reasons;
they are also distinguished from each other by the fact
that the things of the natural mind
are for the most part in the light of the world,
which is called the light of nature;
whereas the things of the rational mind are in the light of heaven,
which light is spiritual light.

AC 7131
... for the memory-knowledges of faith and charity are indeed truths,
but general truths....
For example: it is a truth of memory-knowledge
that charity toward the neighbor is the essential of the church;
also that faith cannot be except where charity is;
and likewise that truth and good can be conjoined,
but not truth and evil, nor good and falsity;
besides many similar truths, which are truths of memory-knowledge.
That these can be enriched with innumerable things,
can be seen from the fact that volumes can be written about them,
and yet the singular truths,
which are the interior things of faith, can never be described,
for these can only be seen in the light of heaven,
and do not fall into natural words.
These truths are like charity, which is spiritual affection,
and which for the most part cannot be expressed in words,
except its most general things...
which can be compared with such things as are in the world.

AC 7155 - evils & falsities vs. goods & truths

AC 7155
...before truths and goods can appear,
and the man be thus associated with those who are in heaven,
it is necessary that these evils and falsities be uncovered,
so that he may see them and know them,
and thus learn what is true and what is good.
This cannot possibly be done without combat
with the evils and falsities in himself; which combat takes place actually,
the evil spirits exciting falsities and evils,
and the angels excusing if the end has been good, and instilling truths.
This is perceived as if it were in himself,
as is the case with temptation in man,
which is felt no otherwise than as being in him,
when yet it is the combat of angels with evil spirits outside of him.

AC 7093 - "holding a feast"

AC 7093 [2]
The reason why "holding a feast" signifies worship for a glad mind,
is that the feast was to be held at a way of three days from Egypt,
thus in a state of no infestation by falsities, that is, in a state of liberty;
for he who is being liberated from falsities
and from the distress in which he then is,
from a glad mind gives thanks to God; thus "holds a feast."

AC 7089 - the Ten Commandments or the "Law"

AC 7089
The literal sense of these is that parents are to be honored,
that murder is not to be committed, nor adultery, nor theft, and so on;
but the internal sense is that the Lord is to be worshiped;
that hatred must not be felt; that truth must not be falsified;
and that we must not claim for ourselves that which belongs to the Lord.
So are these four commandments of the Decalogue understood in heaven,
and the rest also in their own way.
For in the heavens they know no other Father than the Lord;
therefore by that parents are to be honored,
they understand that the Lord is to be worshiped:
neither do they know in the heavens what killing is, for they live to eternity;
but instead of killing they understand feeling hatred,
and injuring the spiritual life of any one:
neither do they know in the heavens what it is to commit adultery,
and therefore instead of thereof they perceive that which corresponds,
namely, not to falsify truth:
and instead of stealing
they perceive not to take anything away from the Lord,
and claim it to themselves, as for instance good and truth.

AC 7089 - the Ten Commandments or the "Law"

AC 7089
The literal sense of these is that parents are to be honored,
that murder is not to be committed, nor adultery, nor theft, and so on;
but the internal sense is that the Lord is to be worshiped;
that hatred must not be felt; that truth must not be falsified;
and that we must not claim for ourselves that which belongs to the Lord.
So are these four commandments of the Decalogue understood in heaven,
and the rest also in their own way.
For in the heavens they know no other Father than the Lord;
therefore by that parents are to be honored,
they understand that the Lord is to be worshiped:
neither do they know in the heavens what killing is, for they live to eternity;
but instead of killing they understand feeling hatred,
and injuring the spiritual life of any one:
neither do they know in the heavens what it is to commit adultery,
and therefore instead of thereof they perceive that which corresponds,
namely, not to falsify truth:
and instead of stealing they perceive not to take anything away from the Lord,
and claim it to themselves, as for instance good and truth.

AC 7086 - His Light & Heat

AC 7083
The heat and light in the natural world arise from the sun of the world;
but spiritual heat and light, or love and faith, arise from the sun of heaven.
The sun of heaven is the Lord;
the heat which comes from Him as a sun is love,
and the light which comes from Him as a sun is faith.
That the Lord is light is evident from these words in John:

Jesus said, I am the light of the world,
he that follows Me shall not walk in darkness,
but shall have the light of life.
(John 8:12)

and that the Lord is a sun is evident in Matthew:

When Jesus was transfigured, His face shone as the sun,
and His garments became white as the light.
Matthew 17:2

AC 7058 - the "Father" and "Son"

AC 708 [3]
... in the internal sense the subject here treated of
is the Lord when He was in the world,
and when He called upon His Father as separate from Himself.
But how the case herein is, has been occasionally told before,
namely, that the Divine Itself, or Jehovah, was in Him,
for He was conceived of Jehovah;
and therefore He also calls Him His "Father," and Himself His "Son."
But the Lord was then in the human
that was infirm by heredity from the mother,
and in so far as He was in this,
so far Jehovah or the Divine Itself which was in Him appeared to be absent;
but in so far as the Lord was in the Human glorified, or made Divine,
so far Jehovah or the Divine Itself was present, and in the very Human.
From this then it can be known how it is to be understood
that the truth which had proceeded immediately from the Divine
was from the Divine of the Lord.

AC 7051 - the Divine is mercy itself

AC 7051 [4]
... it is quite contrary to the Divine [to believe]
that some should be born as the elect to salvation and heaven,
and some as the non-elect to damnation and hell.
To think so about the Divine would be horrible,
because such conduct would be the hight of unmercifulness,
when yet the Divine is mercy itself.

AC 7038 - "to serve the Lord"

AC 7038
That "to serve the Lord" denotes to perform uses,
is because true worship consists in the performance of uses,
thus in the exercises of charity.
He who believes the
service the Lord insists solely in frequenting a place of worship,
in hearing preaching there, and in praying, and this is sufficient,
is much mistaken.
The very worship of the Lord consists in performing uses;
and during man's life in the world
uses consist in every one's discharging aright his duty in his station,
and thus from the heart being of service to his country,
to societies, and to the neighbor, in dealing sincerely with his fellow,
and in performing kind offices with prudence
in accordance with each person' character.
These uses are chiefly the works of charity,
and are those whereby the Lord is chiefly worshiped.

AC 7022 - in every detail

AC 7022
That in all things there is a likeness of a marriage,
and that in every detail of the Word there is the marriage of good and truth,
consequently in every detail of the Word there is heaven,
for heaven is this marriage itself;
and as in every detail of the Word there is heaven,
in every detail of the Word there is the Lord,
because the Lord is the all in all things of heaven.

AC 6996 - Can we hear spirits & angels speak?

AC 6996 [2]
... a man cannot even hear the spirits who are with him speaking with one another; and if he heard, he could not perceive, because the speech of spirits is without human words, and is the universal speech of all languages. Moreover spirits cannot hear angels; and if they heard, they could not perceive, because the angelic speech is still more universal. Nay, the angels of the inmost heaven can be still less heard and perceived, because their speech is not a speech of ideas, but of affections which are of celestial love. Seeing that sense these kinds of speech are so far away from man that they cannot possibly be heard and perceived by him, what then, so to speak, must be the Divine speech, which is infinitely above all kinds of speech in the heavens! It is said "the Divine speech," but the Divine truth proceeding from the Divine Human of the Lord is meant.

AC 6987 - Active thought & the speech of spirits and angels

AC 6987
[2] As regards active thought, which is signified by the "mouth,"
be it known that this thought also is speaking thought in its own way,
and that by the activity of this speech it excites the organs of the body corresponding thereto.
It appears as if the words of the speech were in the thought,
but this is a fallacy; it is only the sense of the speech which is there,
the nature of which man can scarcely know,
for it is the speech of his spirit,
which speech is universal speech,
such as is the speech of spirits in the other life.
When this speech flows into the correspondent organs of the body,
it presents the speech of words,
which is vastly different from the thought that produces it,
as is very evident from the fact that a man can think in one minute
what takes him a long space of time to speak or write;
and this would not be the case if this thought were composed of words,
as is the speech of the mouth.
It is from the correspondence of the speech of the thought
and the speech of the mouth,
that when a man comes after death among spirits,
he knows how to speak in the universal language,
thus with spirits, no matter what had been their language in the world;
and that he then scarcely knows otherwise
than that he speaks there as in the world,
when yet the words of their speech are not words
such as man uses in the body,
but are the ideas which had been of his thought,
one idea containing very many things.
For this reason spirits can utter in a moment
what a man can scarcely utter in half an hour,
and even then there are many things within the same idea
which cannot possibly be expressed by bodily speech.

[3] Yet the angels in heaven speak in a different way from spirits;
for the angels who are in heaven have their speech from intellectual ideas,
which by the philosophers are called immaterial ideas;
whereas spirits have their speech from ideas of the imagination,
which are called material ideas;
hence in one idea of the thought of the angels
there are contained very many things
which spirits cannot utter by many series of their ideas,
besides many things which they cannot express at all.
But when a spirit becomes an angel,
he is in angelic speech,
just as a man when after death he becomes a spirit,
is in the speech of spirits, and for a similar reason.
From all this it can be seen what active thought is,
namely, that it is the speech of man's spirit.

AC 6970 - believing

AC 6970
But to believe that there is a heaven and a hell;
that men will live after death,
the good in happiness to eternity,
the evil in unhappiness;
that the life remains with every one;
that faith and charity make spiritual life,
and that this is the life which the angels have in heaven;
that the Lord has all power in the heavens and on earth, as He Himself says

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying,
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
(Matthew 28:18)

that from Him we live;
that the Word is the doctrine of heavenly and divine truths;
and the like - such are matters of faith in spiritual things,
and are here signified by "believing."

AC 6970 - believing

AC 6970
But to believe that there is a heaven and a hell;
that men will live after death,
the good in happiness to eternity,
the evil in unhappiness;
that the life remains with every one;
that faith and charity make spiritual life,
and that this is the life which the angels have in heaven;
that the Lord has all power in the heavens and on earth, as He Himself says

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying,
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
(Matthew 28:18)

that from Him we live;
that the Word is the doctrine of heavenly and divine truths;
and the like - such are matters of faith in spiritual things,
and are here signified by "believing."

AC 6963 - profanation

AC 6963 [2]
... to believe in truths and to live contrary to them, is to profane them.

AC 6952 & 6954 - be lifted up!

AC 6952 [6]
He who looks downward,
wills what is evil and thinks what is false,
but he who is lifted upward by the Lord,
wills what is good and thinks what is true;
the uplifting by the Lord takes place actually,
and from this a removal from evils and falsities....

AC 6954
From himself man looks downward only,
that is, into the world, and to the earth,
because from himself he is in evil and falsity;
and when he looks thither, then the sensuous has dominion,
and interior things make no opposition,
because they follow the force of the stream, and yield to it.

Nevertheless, not from himself but from the Lord,
man looks upward, that is, to heaven and to the Lord,
which is effected by means of an uplifting;
and when the interiors are uplifted, the sensuous also is uplifted,
but its light is then obscured, because the light of heaven has dominion.
When this takes place,
good and truth from the Lord flow in, and are also received;
and this is meant by power communicated from the Divine.
Yet no others can be uplifted in this way
than those who have lived in the good of faith and of charity.

AC 6943 - correspondences - communication & communion

AC 6943
... the historical sense of the letter is expressed by external things,
in the internal sense signifies internal things;
because in no other way
can the spiritual things of heaven be presented to men.
For man does not apprehend bare spiritual things,
neither can they be expressed in the words of human speech;
and therefore spiritual things have been described
by corresponding natural things,
and in this way they way have been given to man.
Thus the Word is helpful to man in the natural world,
and also to man in the spiritual world,
and hence there is communication of heaven with man, and communion.

AC 6921 - material things

AC 6921
... material things are like weights which induce slowness and retard,
because they bear the mind downward and immerse it in earthly things,
and thus remove it from the spiritual world,
where all clear discernment comes.

AC 6916 - living truths

AC 6916
... when anyone lives according to truths,
the truths themselves then become goods;
and therefore such as is the quality of the truth,
such becomes the good.

AC 6912 - those in falsities

AC 6912
... they who are in falsities never let go,
even though it were to eternity,
unless they are driven away.

AC 6895 - the coming of the Lord, and the supreme, spiritual & natural senses

AC 6895
The disciples said unto Jesus, Tell us when shall these things be?
and what is the sign of Thy coming,
and of the consummation of the age?

And he said that when all these things should come to pass,

Then shall appear the sign of the Son of man,
and then shall all the tribes of the earth wail,
and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven
with power and glory." (Matthew 24:3,30)

That by the "coming of the Lord"
is not meant His appearing with angels in the clouds,
but acknowledgment in hearts by love and faith;

also His appearing from the Word,
the inmost or supreme sense of which treats of the Lord alone.
This coming is meant by the coming of the Lord
which takes place when an old church is rejected,
and a new church is set up again by the Lord....

Joseph said unto his brethren, I die;
and visiting God will visit you,
and will make you come up out of this land unto the land
which He sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. (Genesis 1:24)

By "visiting to visit you," in the sense of the letter,
is here signified liberation from slavery in Egypt,
and introduction into the land of Canaan;
but this is not the spiritual content of the Word, but the natural.

The spiritual of the Word treats of the Lord,
of His kingdom and church, and of love and faith;
and therefore by "visiting to visit" in the spiritual sense
is meant liberation from falsities,
and thus initiation into what is of the Lord's church and kingdom,
thus the coming of the Lord in love and faith
with those who will be of the new church.

AC 6880 - I AM

AC 6880
It appears to man as if the Divine truth
were not such that anything can come forth by means of it;
for it is believed that it is like a voice,
which being uttered with the lips, is dissipated.
But it is altogether otherwise:
the Divine truth proceeding from the Lord is the veriest reality,
and such a reality that all things have come forth from it,
and all things subsist from it;
for whatever proceeds from the Lord
is the veriest reality in the universe;
and such is the Divine truth,
which is called the "Word,"
through which all things were made.

AC 6865 - memory-knowledges in the light of the world vs. the light of heaven

AC 6865 [2 & 3]
For memory-knowledges are the most general vessels,
which sometimes appear contrary to truths,
until truths being let into them make them transparent,
and thus not to be noticed.
Moreover, memory-knowledges are full of the fallacies of the senses,
which cannot be dispelled
by those who are in mere knowledges from doctrine,
and not in the perception of truth from good;
mainly because the light of the world predominates with them,
which light appears clear so long as the light of heaven does not flow into it,
but as soon as the light of heaven flows in,
instead of light it becomes obscurity.
Hence it is that these persons are enlightened and clever
in the things of the world,
but obscured and dull in the things of heaven.

These believe themselves enlightened
when they have confirmed in themselves the doctrinal things of the church,
but it is a sensuous light from the light of the world
which then deceives them;
for doctrinal things of every kind can be confirmed,
as Jewish doctrinal things by the Jews,
enthusiastic ones by enthusiasts,
Socinian ones by the Socinians,
and heresies by heretics of every sort;
and when they have been confirmed,
they appear to them in the sensuous light as very truths.
But they who are in the light of heaven are in enlightenment from the Lord;
and before confirmations,
by looking into the memory-knowledges which are beneath
and are there arranged in order,
they discern whether it is a truth that may be confirmed or not.
Hence it is evident that these latter have an interior view,
which is above the memory-knowledges, and thus is distinct;
whereas the former have a lower view,
which is within the memory-knowledges,
and thus is an entangled one.

AC 6864 - the work of the holy proceeding from the Lord

AC 6864
For the holy proceeding from the Lord not only disperses infesting falsities,
but also reduces all things into Divine order,
both those which are in the heavens, and those which are in the hells;
and causes the heavens to be most distinct
according to goods and derivative truths,
and the hells also to be most distinct
according to evils and the derivative falsities;
and likewise causes evils to be opposite to goods,
and falsities to truths,
in order that a spiritual equilibrium may exist,
and everything be in a free state.

AC 6859 - the origins of evil and falsity

AC 6859
There are two origins of evil, and also two origins of falsity.
One origin of evil is from falsity of doctrine or of religiosity;
the other is from the cupidities of the love of self and of the world.

As just said,
the falsity of the first origin is from falsity of doctrine or of religiosity;
and the falsity of the other origin
is from the evil of the cupidities of the said loves.

religiosity - piety, religiousness, showing off of religious activity
cupidities - avarice, greed, lust
(from various sources)

AC 6844 - sensuous things

AC 6844 [2]
That sensuous things, which are the externals of the natural,
are of such a nature that they cannot receive the Divine,
is because they are in things worldly, bodily, and even earthly....

Hence it is that when a man is in these sensuous things,
and is thinking from them,
he thinks no otherwise of the Divine than as he thinks about earthly things,
and if he is in evil
he thinks from these sensuous things quite against the Divine.
Therefore if when a man is thinking about such things
as are of faith and love to God, he is in good;
he is elevated from the sensuous things
which are the externals of the natural, toward interior things,
consequently from earthly and worldly things
nearer to heavenly and spiritual things.

AC 6831 - the "angel of Jehovah"

AC 6381
The reason why the Divine Human is called the "angel of Jehovah,"
is that before the coming of the Lord,
when Jehovah passed through the heaven,
He appeared in a human form as an angel.
For the whole angelic heaven bears relation to a man,
which is called the Grand Man....
Therefore when the Divine Itself passed through the angelic heaven,
it appeared in a human form as an angel before those with whom he spoke:
this was the Divine Human of Jehovah before the coming of the Lord.
The Lord's Human when made Divine is the same,
for the Lord is Jehovah Himself in the Divine Human.

That the Lord as to the Divine Human is called an "angel,"...
is evident form many passages in the New Testament
where the Lord says that He was "sent by the Father;"
to be "sent" signifies to proceed,
the word "sent" in the Hebrew tongue
being the same as "angel."

AC 6818 - degrees of charity

AC 6818
But not only is a man in the singular the neighbor,
but also the man in the plural.
For a society, smaller or greater, is the neighbor;
our country is the neighbor;
the church is the neighbor;
the Lord's kingdom is the neighbor;
and so above all is the Lord.
All these are the neighbor who is to be benefitted from charity.

These are also ascending degrees of the neighbor;
for a society of many is the neighbor
in a higher degree than is an individual man;
our country in a higher degree than a society;
in a still higher degree the church;
and in a still higher degree, the Lord's kingdom;
but in the highest degree, the Lord is the neighbor.
These ascending degrees are like the steps of a ladder,
at the top of which is the Lord.

AC 6810 - knowing about heaven

AC 6810
For they who know with certainty and believe in a life after death,
care for heavenly things, as being eternal and happy,
and not for worldly things except in so far as the necessities of life require.

AC 6789 - living good, esteeming the Holy

AC 6789 [2]
Unless external truth is from internal truth,
it cannot be conjoined with good.
Take the Word as an illustration.
Unless the internal of the Word flows in
with those who read the Word
and abide in the literal sense,
no conjunction is effected of truth from the Word with good;
and the internal of the Word flows in and is conjoined with good
when the person esteems the Word holy;
and he esteems It holy when he is in good.

[3] Take as another illustration the Holy Supper.
Scarcely any know
that the "bread" therein signifies the Lord's love toward
the universal human race, and the reciprocity of the man;
and that the 'wine' signifies charity.
Nevertheless, with those who receive the bread and wine holily,
conjunction is effected with heaven with the the Lord through these;
and the good of love and charity flow in through the angels,
who then do not think of bread and wine,
but of love and charity.
Hence it is evident that external truth is conjoined with internal truth
when the person is in good,
without his knowing it.

AC 6788 - holy

AC 6788
... that which proceeds from the Lord's Divine Human
is Divine truth from Divine good.
Hence it is that the "holy spirit" is the holy which proceeds from the Lord;
for the Spirit itself does not proceed,
but the holy which the Spirit speaks,
as every one can understand who considers the matter.

AC 6784 - more on truth winning over falsity

AC 6784 [2]
That true memory-knowledge prevails
over the power of the doctrine of falsity from evil,
is because the Divine is in all truth from good,
whereas in falsity from evil there is the contrary,
and what is contrary to the Divine does not prevail at all.

It is said falsity from evil, because this is truly falsity,
whereas falsity not from evil,
but from the ignorance of the truth, is not so.
Evil is that which is opposite to heaven,
but not falsity from ignorance;
nay, if in the ignorance there is anything of innocence,
then this falsity is accepted by the Lord as truth;
for they who are in such falsity receive truth.

AC 6757, 6765, 6769 - the burden of falsity and the safety of truth

AC 6757
... infestation by falsities are nothing else
than burdens to those who are in truths.

AC 6765
When a person is being regenerated,
he is let into combats against falsities,
and is then kept by the Lord in truth,
but in that truth which he had persuaded himself to be truth,
and from this truth he fights against falsity.
He can fight also from truth not genuine,
provided the truth is such that in some way it can be conjoined with good;
and it is conjoined with good by means of innocence,
for innocence is the means of conjunction.
So it is that people can be regenerated within the church from any doctrine,
but those pre-eminently who are in genuine truths.

AC 6769
... for they who are in truths are in safety wherever they go,
even in the midst of the hells.

AC 6752 - Moses represented the law

AC 6752 [8]
As Moses represented the law, he was allowed to enter in unto the Lord on Mount Sinai, and not only to receive the tables of the law there, but also to hear the statutes and judgments of the law, and to deliver them to the people; and it is also said that "from this, they should believe in Moses forever;"

Jehovah said unto Moses,
Lo. I come unto thee in the thickness of the cloud,
that the people may hear when I speak with thee,
and may also believe in thee forever.
(Exodus 19:9)

it is said "in the thickness of the cloud"
because by a "cloud" is meant the Word in the letter,
and from this when Moses entered in unto the Lord on Mount Sinai,
it is said that he "entered into the cloud".
(... a "cloud" denotes the literal sense of the Word...)

AC 6745 - the holy hidden sense

AC 6745
I will set thee for a magnificence of eternity,
a joy of generation and generation;
and thou shalt suck the milk of the nations,
yea, thou shalt suck the breasts of kings.
(Isaiah 60:15,16)

Every one can see that in these words there lies hid a sense which does not appear in the letter, and that what lies hid in that sense is holy, because the Word is Divine; otherwise what could it mean to suck the milk of the nations, and to suck the breasts of kings?

The sense which lies hid and which is holy, is not at all manifest unless it it known what is signified by "sucking," and what by "milk," by "nations," by "breast," and by "kings"...
..."milk" denotes the spiritual of the celestial, or the truth of good...
..."nations" denote good in worship....
..."breasts" denote the affections of good and truth...
..."kings" denote truths...
..."to suck" denotes the insinuation of good.

AC 6723 - Moses and the ark

AC 6723
[3] As it was provided that Moses should represent the Lord
as to the law Divine, or the Word, specifically the historic Word,
it was therefore brought about that
when he was an infant he was placed in a little ark,
but in one of low value, because he was in his first rising,
and because his being there was only a representative;
but that afterward
when the law Divine itself had shone forth from Mount Sinai,
it was placed in a an ark which was called the "ark of the testimony"

[4] Hence the ark was most holy,
because it represented the Lord's Divine Human as to the Divine law;
for from the Lord's Divine Human proceeds the Divine law,
or the Divine truth...

AC 6704, 6706 - charity and who is the neighbor?

AC 6704
The general opinion at the present day is that every person is equally the neighbor, and that every one who is in need of help must be benefited. But it is the part of Christian prudence to search well the quality of a person's life, and to exercise charity in accordance therewith.

AC 6706
The distinguishing difference of the neighbor, which the person of the church ought to wholly know, in order that he may know the quality of charity, vary in accordance with the good which is with every one; and as all good proceeds from the Lord, the Lord is the neighbor in the highest sense, and in a surpassing degree; and from Him the neighbor originates. From this if follows that in proportion as any one has of the Lord in him, in the same proportion he is the neighbor....

AC 6692 - it is order

AC 6692 [2]
It is order
that the goods and truths which proceed from the Lord
should be received by a person.
When this is done,
there is order in everything the person intends and thinks.

AC 6677 - good is protected by the Lord

AC 6677
The reason why the king of Egypt said that a son should be slain, but not a daughter, is plain from the internal sense, which is that they would attempt to destroy truth, but not good; for when the infernals infest, they are allowed to attack truths, but not goods. The reason is that truths are what can be assaulted, but not goods, these being protected by the Lord; and when the infernals attempt to attack good, they are cast down deep into hell, for they cannot withstand the presence of good, because in all good the Lord is present. Hence it is that the angels, being in good, have such power over infernal spirits that one angel can master thousand of them. Be it known that there is life in good, for good is of love, and love is the life of man.

AC 6674 - names denote qualities

AC 6674 [6]
... the "name" of the Lord is everything of faith and love
by which the Lord is to be worshiped...

[8]
That the "name of Jehovah" denotes everything by which He is worshiped,
thus in the supreme sense everything that proceeds from the Lord...:

Jehovah bless thee and keep thee,
Jehovah make His faces to shine upon thee,
and have mercy on thee;
Jehovah lift up His faces upon thee,
and give thee peace.
(Numbers 69:24-26)

Thou shalt not take the name of thy God in vain;
for Jehovah will not hold him innocent
that takes his name in vain.
(Exodus 20:7)

Hallowed by Thy name.
(Matthew 6:9)

AC 6666 - as regards the intention to subjugate, such as exists with the evil who are from hell

subjugate -
1 : to bring under control and governance as a subject, conquer
2 : to make submissive, to subdue

AC 6666 [2]
Such is their (the hells) endeavor and intention to subjugate those who are in good and truth that it cannot be described; for they make use of all malice, all cunning and fraud, all deceit, and all cruelty, so great and of such a nature that if these were told in part only, hardly any one in the world could believe it; so cunning and artful are their devices, and so execrable. In a word, these infernals are of such a nature that they cannot possibly be resisted by any man, nor even by any angel, but by the Lord alone. The reason why they are possessed with such an endeavor and intention is that all their delight of life, thus their life itself, consists in doing evil; and therefore nothing else occupies their thoughts, consequently they intend nothing else. They are quite unable to do what is good, because this is repugnant to them: if they do what is good, it is for the sake of self, thus is done to self.

AC 6663 - the use of spiritual combats

AC 6663
Most spirits who come from the world and have lived the life of the Lord's commandments, before they can be uplifted into heaven and joined to societies there, are infested by the evils and falsities pertaining to them, to the end that they may be removed; for there are impurities which they have contracted in the life of the body that in no wise agree with heaven. The infestations take place by their being immersed in their evils and falsities; and while they are in them, spirits who are in like evils and falsities are present, and labor by every means to lead them away from truth and good.

But still they are not immersed so deeply in their evils and falsities that the influx through the angels from the Lord may not prevail; and the balance is maintained with exactness. The purpose of this is, that he who is infested may seem to himself to be in freedom, and thus to fight against the evils and falsities of himself, yet with the acknowledgment, if not at the time, yet afterward, that all the power of resisting was from the Lord. When this is being done, not only are the truths and goods strengthened which have been implanted before, but more are insinuated, this being the result of every spiritual combat in which the combatant is victorious.

This is still more perfectly the case with spiritual combats, because the combat takes place in the spirit, and concerns goods and truths; and especially because the Lord is present and leads by the angels; for the contest is concerning eternal life and salvation.

It is common in such combats for the Lord to turn into good all the evils which the hells intend; wherefore it is not permitted them to bring forth more or other evils than can be turned into good that is suited to him who is in combat. The reason of this originates in the fact that the Lord's kingdom is the kingdom of uses, and therefore nothing can be done there that is not a source of good.

AC 6647 - stirred up

AC 6647
... when the man of the spiritual church is being regenerated,
truths are stirred up by the Lord through the angels who are with him,
and thereupon he is led into good.
But when the man has been regenerated,
then both truth and good together are stirred up,
and in this way he is led.

AC 6637 - the activity that makes the church

AC6637
As Israel represents the good of truth, or spiritual good,
and his sons represent spiritual truths in the natural,
therefore the sons of Israel represent the church;
for the church is the church
from spiritual good and from the derivative truths.

He who is not in spiritual good, that is, in the good of charity,
and in spiritual truths, that is, in the truth of faith,
is not of the church, in spite of his having been born within it.

For the whole heavenly kingdom of the Lord
is in the good of love and of faith;
and unless the church is in the like, it cannot be the church,
because it is not conjoined with heaven,
for the church is the Lord's kingdom on earth.

[2] Its being called the church is not from the fact that the Word is there,
and that there are doctrinal things therefrom,
nor from the fact that the Lord is known there,
and that the sacraments are there;
but it is the church from the fact that men live according to the Word,
or according to doctrine from the Word,
and so that the doctrine is the rule of life....

Be it further known that every one who lives in the good of charity and of faith
is a church and kingdom of the Lord,
and from this is called a temple, and also a house, of God.

AC 6637 - the activity that makes the church

AC6637
As Israel represents the good of truth, or spiritual good,
and his sons represent spiritual truths in the natural,
therefore the sons of Israel represent the church;
for the church is the church
from spiritual good and from the derivative truths.

He who is not in spiritual good, that is, in the good of charity,
and in spiritual truths, that is, in the truth of faith,
is not of the church, in spite of his having been born with in it.

For the whole heavenly kingdom of the Lord
is in the good of love and of faith;
and unless the church is in the like, it cannot be the church,
because it is not conjoined with heaven,
for the church is the Lord's kingdom on earth.

[2] Its being called the church is not from the fact that the Word is there,
and that there are doctrinal things therefrom,
nor from the fact that the Lord is known there,
and that the sacraments are there;
but it is the church from the fact that men live according to the Word,
or according to doctrine from the Word,
and so that the doctrine is the rule of life....

Be it further known that every one who lives in the good of charity and of faith
is a church and kingdom of the Lord,
and from this is called a temple, and also a house, of God.

AC 6619 - the Lord's Prayer

AC 6619
That there are countless things in the ideas of thought,
and that those which are in order within them
are there from things more interior, was also evident to me
while I read the Lord's Prayer morning and evening.
The ideas of my thought were then always opened toward heaven,
and countless things flowed in,
so that I observed clearly that the ideas of thought
taken from the contents of the Prayer were filled from heaven....
from this I was given to know
that in the contents of this Prayer
there are more things
than the universal heaven is capable of comprehending....

AC 6587 - the internal of the church is willing good from the heart

AC 6587 [3]
The internal of the church consists in willing good from the heart,
and in being affected with good;
and its external consists in doing it,
and this according to the truth of faith which the man knows from good;
but the external of the church consists in the devout performance of rituals,
and in doing works of charity, according to the precepts of the church.
From this it is evident that the internal of the church
is the good of charity in the will.
Therefore when this ceases, the church itself also ceases,
for the good of charity is its essential.
External worship indeed remains afterward, as before,
but then it is not worship, but a rite,
which is preserved because it has been so appointed;
but this rite, which appears like worship, is like a shell without a kernel,
for it is an external which remains wherein is no internal.

AC 6578 - And he comforted them, and spake upon their heart. (Genesis 50:21)

AC 6578
... there is a marriage of truth which is of the understanding,
and of good which is of the will, in every detail of the Word;
for "comforting" is said of the understanding,
and "speaking upon the heart," of the will;
therefore also his "comforting them" signifies hope,
for this is of the understanding by means of truth;
and his "speaking upon their heart" signifies trust,
for this is of the will by means of good...

genuine trust is impossible with any
but those who are in the good of charity;
and genuine hope with any
but those who are in the good of faith.

And he comforted them, and spake upon their heart.
(Genesis 50:21)

AC 6567 - the setting up again of a spiritual church

AC 6567
And his brethren also went and fell down before him,
and said, Behold we are thy servants.
(Genesis 50:18)

In this chapter is described the setting up again of a spiritual church, and in this passage the submission of the things in the natural under the internal; of which submission be it known that the spiritual church cannot possibly be instituted with any one, unless the things that belong to the natural or external person have been made submissive to the spiritual or internal person.

So long as the mere truth which is of faith predominates with a person, and not the good which is of charity, so long the natural or external person has not been made submissive to the spiritual or internal person. But as soon as good as the dominion, the natural or external person submits himself, and then the person becomes a spiritual church.

That such is the case is known from the fact that the person does from affection what the truth teaches, and that he does not act contrary to this affection, however the natural desires it. The very affection and consequent reason have the dominion, and subdue in the natural the delights of the love of self and of the world, as also the fallacies which had filled the memory-knowledges there; and at last so completely that this subjugation comes to be among the person's pleasures; and then the natural is at rest, and afterward is in agreement; and when it is in agreement, it then partakes of the pleasantness of the internal. From all this it may be known what is meant by the submission of the things in the natural under the internal, which is signified by "his brethren went and fell down before him, and said, Behold we are thy servants."

AC 6567 - the setting up again of a spiritual church

AC 6567
And his brethren also went and fell down before him,
and said, Behold we are thy servants..
(Genesis 50:18)

In this chapter is described the setting up again of a spiritual church, and in this passage the submission of the things in the natural under the internal; of which submission be it known that the spiritual church cannot possibly be instituted with any one, unless the things that belong to the natural or external person have been made submissive to the spiritual or internal person.

So long as the mere truth which is of faith predominates with a person, and not the good which is of charity, so long the natural or external person has not been made submissive to the spiritual or internal person. But as soon as good as the dominion, the natural or external person submits himself, and then the person becomes a spiritual church.

That such is the case is known from the fact that the person does from affection what the truth teaches, and that he does not act contrary to this affection, however the natural desires it. The very affection and consequent reason have the dominion, and subdue in the natural the delights of the love of self and of the world, as also the fallacies which had filled the memory-knowledges there; and at last so completely that this subjugation comes to be among the person's pleasures; and then the natural is at rest, and afterward is in agreement; and when it is in agreement, it then partakes of the pleasantness of the internal. From all this it may be known what is meant by the submission of the things in the natural under the internal, which is signified by "his brethren went and fell down before him, and said, Behold we are thy servants."

AC 6534 - "horsemen"

AC 6534 [1-2]
... "horsemen" denote things that belong to the intellect or understanding...

In thine honor mount up, and ride upon the Word of truth,
and of gentleness, and of righteousness,
and thy right hand shall teach thee wonderful things.
(Psalms 45:4)

speaking of the Lord;
"riding upon the Word of truth"
denotes being in the very understanding of truth.

AC 6502 - "medicine"

AC 6502 [5]
... "medicine" signifies... that which preserves from falsities and evils;
for when the truth of faith leads to the good of life,
it preserves, because it withdraws from evils.