AE 435 - good of love (heart), truth from that good (lungs), & good of life (body)

AE 435a [3]
. . . there are three things
which fully constitute and form each universal essential,
namely, the good of love,
the truth from that good,
and the good of life therefrom.
The good of life is the effect of the other two;
for unless there is a third that is brought forth,
the two former can have no existence,
that is, unless there is the good of life,
the good of love and truth from that good can have no existence.
These three are like the final cause,
the effecting cause,
and the effect.
The good of love is the final cause,
truth from that good is the effecting cause
or that through which good is brought into effect,
and the good of life
is the effect in which the prior causes have existence;
and these have no existence
unless there is an effect in which they may exist and subsist.
Again, these three are like the pulse of the heart,
the respiration of the lungs,
and the action of the body;
these make a one: for if the body does not act,
or does not let itself be put in action,
as is the case when a person dies, the other two cease.
It is the same with the good of love,
the truth from that good,
and the good of life.
The good of love is like the heart,
and is also meant by "heart" in the Word;
truth from that good is like the lungs,
and is also meant by "breath" and "soul" in the Word;
and the good of life is like the body
in which the others act and live.
Three like things are in everything that has existence,
and when the three exist together
there is full formation.

AE 434a - the first and last of regeneration

AE 434a [6]
When a person is regenerating,
truth is in the first place and good in the second,
not actually but apparently,
but when he is regenerated,
good is in the first place and truth in the second
actually and perceptibly;
thus good is the first and the last of regeneration.

AE 433c - the Word

AE 433c [13]
. . . the Word and the doctrine of genuine truth therefrom
will remain to eternity with those who are in love to the Lord.

AE 433a - loving the Lord

AE 433a [2]
Those love the Lord
who do and keep His commandments and His words,
because His commandments and words signify Divine truths,
and all Divine truth proceeds from Him,
and that which proceeds from Him is Himself;
when, therefore, a person is in that truth in respect to his life
the Lord is in him and he in the Lord . . ..
To love means also to be conjoined,
for love is spiritual conjunction,
and conjunction is effected
by the reception of Divine truth in doctrine and in life.

AE 431b - judging

AE 431b [6]
For every person is judged according to his life,
and no one except the Lord know the lives of all . . ..

AE 430b - the chief and primary constituent of the church

AE 430b
. . . the chief and primary constituent of the church is truth from good,
for everything of the church is from that,
for truth is of its doctrine,
and good is of a life according to doctrine.

AE 427b - opposites

AE 427b [9]
. . . as the good of love is heavenly,
and thence mild, patient, and modest,
so the evil opposite to that good is infernal,
hard, stubborn, and shameless.

AE 427a - faces

AE 427a
The whole face, where the organs of
sight, smell, hearing, and taste, are situated,
corresponds to the affections and the thoughts therefrom in general,
the eyes corresponding to the understanding,
the nose to perception,
the ears to hearkening and obedience,
and the taste to the desire to know and be wise;
but the forehead corresponds to the good of love,
from which all these are,
for it forms the highest part of the face,
and directly encloses the front and primary part of the brain,
which is the seat of a person's intellect.
This is why the Lord looks upon angels in the forehead,
and the angels look to the Lord through the eyes;
this is so because the forehead corresponds to the love,
from which the Lord looks upon them,
and the eyes correspond to the understanding
from which they look to the Lord;
for the Lord grants Himself to be seen
through the influx of love into their understanding.

AE 422d, 426 - turning

AE 422d [17]
. . . the whole angelic heaven is turned to the Lord as a sun,
thus constantly to the east;
furthermore, all the interiors of the angels in the heavens
are turned in that direction,
and for this reason
the angels of heaven turn their faces to the Lord.

AE 426
. . . in the spiritual world,
when anyone turns himself away from another
he becomes invisible to him.

AE 422c - the light of the morning

AE 422c [12]
The spirit of Jehovah spoke in me,
the God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me,
As the light of the morning when the sun rises,
a morning without clouds;
from the brightness after rain comes grass out of the earth.
(II Samuel 23:2-4)

"The God of Israel" and "the Rock of Israel" mean the Lord,
and because He is the sun of the angelic heaven,
and because all Divine truth which illustrates angels and people,
and gives intelligence and works reformation,
proceeds from Him as a sun and flows in,
so it is said "as the light in the morning when the sun rises,
a morning without clouds;
from the brightness after rain comes grass out of the earth;"
"the light in the morning when the sun rises"
signifying Divine truth from the Lord as a sun;
"a morning without clouds"
signifying the purity of that truth;
"rain" its influx,
and "grass out of the earth" the consequent intelligence and reformation;
for these are signified by "grass"
because grass springs out of the earth
by the action of the sun of the world after rain,
and intelligence is from the Lord as a sun through the influx of Divine truth.

AE 422a - the signification of angels

AE 422a
And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun,
(Revelation 7:2)
signifies the Divine love going forth from the Lord.
This is evident from the signification of "angel,"
as being something Divine proceeding from the Lord;
for "angel" in the Word means,
in the nearest sense, an entire angelic society,
but in a general sense "angel" signifies
everyone who receives Divine truth in doctrine and life;
while in the highest sense "angel" signifies
something Divine proceeding from the Lord,
and in particular Divine truth . . .

AE 419f - winds & miracles

AE 419f [24, 26]
There arose a great storm of wind,
and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was now filling.
But Jesus was in the stern, slumbering on a pillow;
and they awake Him, and say unto Him,
Do you not care that we perish?
And He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea,
Be still, be dumb.
And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
(Mark 4:37-39; also Luke 8:23,24)

This miracle of the Lord, like all the rest,
involves arcana of heaven and interior things of the church.
The difference between Divine miracles and those not Divine
is that Divine miracles also signify Divine things,
because the Divine is in them,
while miracles not Divine signify nothing,
because there is nothing of the Divine within them;
and moreover, in the description of the Divine miracles in the Word,
and in every particular thereof, there is a spiritual sense.

This miracle involves spiritual temptations;
"a great storm of wind,
so that the waves beat into the boat, and it was filling,"
signifies such temptations; and that when they were in extreme fear,
"Jesus awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea,
Be still, be dumb; and the wind ceased, and there was a great calm,"
signifies deliverance from temptations.
Moreover, every single word here contains a spiritual sense;
. . ."storm" and "tempest of wind" signify temptations,
for these are irruptions of falsities,
or inundations of the mind by falsities.
This, too, is plain from the rebuke of the wind and the waves,
and from the words of the Lord to the sea,
"Be still, be dumb,"
as if He were speaking to those things
or those persons that induce temptations.

This makes clear what effect is there produced
by the wind coming from the east, which is called "the east wind,"
namely, that with the evil it disperses all the goods and truths
which they presented in external form before the world,
and all the truths which they talked about for the sake of appearances.

AE 419c - must be from both

AE 419c [8]
. . .all worship, confession, and prayer
must be from truths and goods;
to be heard they must be from both . . .

AE 417b - "the stone of the corner"

AE 417b [12]
"The stone of the corner"
signifies all Divine truth upon which heaven and the church are founded,
thus every foundation;
and as the foundation is the ultimate upon which a house or temple rests,
therefore it signifies all things.

AE 413a - "the day of His anger"

AE 413a [2]
But the Lord has no anger whatever,
for He is love and mercy itself and good itself;
and pure love and good itself cannot be angry;
for this is contrary to its essence.

. . . the evil . . . cannot endure such influx of Divine love . . .

AE 411f - don't forget!

AE 411f [28]
. . . he who forgets God is in evils . . .

AE 411d - "upon this rock"

AE 411d [13]
By virtue of this confession
("You are the Christ, the Son of the living God")
"Peter" represented Divine truth from the Lord in the church,
and for this reason he was called "a rock" [petra],
and it is said
"you are a rock [petra], upon this rock [petra] I will build My church,"
which signifies upon Divine truth from the Lord,
or what is the same, upon truths from good,
for upon these the church is built.

AE 411c - depression? - "digging out of the pit"

AE 411c [6]
Hearken unto me,
you that follow after righteousness,
you that seek Jehovah;
look unto the rock out of which you were hewn,
and to the digging out of the pit out of which you were dug.
(Isaiah 51:1)

The "rock" means the Lord in respect to Divine truth,
and the "pit" signifies the Word . . .
"to be hewn out of the rock" and "to be dug out of the pit,"
signify to be regenerated by Divine truths and Divine goods,
thus by truths from good from the Lord;
for "stones," that are cut out of a rock,
signify truths from the Lord;
and "soil," that is dug out of a pit,
signifies good from the Lord,
therefore it is called "the digging out of the pit."

AE 409d - loves

AE 409d [7]
For the love of self and of the world
is the opposite of love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor.
For this reason,
those who are in the heavenly love
would rather die
or be deprived of honors and wealth in the world
than be drawn away from the Lord and from heaven by them;
for this they regard as the all, because it is eternal,
but the former as relatively nothing,
because it comes to an end with life in the world.

AE 408 - truths from good

AE 408 [3]
Truths from good are what have all power,
because good does not act of itself,
but by truths,
for good forms itself in truths,
and clothes itself with them,
as the soul does with the body,
and so acts;
it acts by truths in the natural man,
because there all interior things are together,
and in their fullness.

AE 406d - to live spiritually

AE 406d [14]
. . . to live spiritually
is to live solely in accordance with truths and goods from the Word,
and from revelation out of heaven.

AE 406c - spiritual thought vs. natural thought

AE 406c [8]
Hear the word of Jehovah, ye nations,
and declare it in the islands afar off.
(Jeremiah 31:10).

. . .these words in a purely spiritual sense,
signify that the internal person shall teach the external,
or the spiritual the whole natural person,
the truths of the Word . . .
this pure sense, which is for angels,
is with difficulty perceived by people,
for it is with difficulty
that people can think abstractedly from persons and places,
for the reason that the thought of people is natural,
and natural thought differs from spiritual thought in this,
that it is tied down to places and persons
and is consequently more limited than the spiritual.
And this is why many things that have been explained
will perhaps with difficulty fall into the ideas of the thought of those
who keep the sight of the mind fixed on the sense of the words.

AE 406b - to sing

AE 406b
. . . "to sing a song" and "to praise"
signify worship from a glad mind . . .

. . . "to give glory" meaning worship from internals,
and "to declare praise" worship from externals . . .

AE 405g & 405h - truth

AE 405g [36]
. . . "wilderness" signifying
where there is no good because there is no truth,
thus where there is as yet no church . . .

AE 405h [47]
The understanding of truth is from the light of truth,
but the perception of truth is from the heat or love of truth.

AE 405h [52]
. . . a person by inheritance
is moved to love himself more than God,
and the world more than heaven,
and to love the evils adhering to those loves from parents.
These evils and the falsities therefrom are not removed
except by means of Divine truth
and a life according to it;
by these means the higher or interior mind of a person,
which sees from the light of heaven, is opened,
and by this light the Lord disperses
the evils and the falsities therefrom that are in the natural mind.

AE 405d - the Mount of Olives; AE 405e - one hundred sheep

AE 405d [24]
Jesus during the days was teaching in the temple;
but at night He went out and lodged in the mount
that is called the Mount of Olives.
(Luke 21:37; 22:39; John 8:1)

. . . He did all things from the Divine love,
for "the Mount of Olives" signified that love;
for whatever the Lord did in the world was representative,
and whatever He spoke was significative.
The Lord when in the world was in representatives and significatives,
in order that He might be in the ultimates of heaven and the church . . ..

AE 405e [33]
If any man have a hundred sheep,
and one of them be gone astray,
will he not leave the ninety and nine in the mountains,
and going seek that which is gone astray?
(Matthew 18:12).

It is said, "will he not leave the ninety and nine in the mountains?"
for "sheep in the mountains"
signify those who are in the good of love and charity;
but "the one that is gone astray"
signifies one who is not in that good,
because he is in falsities from ignorance;
for where falsity is,
there good is not,
because good is of truth.

AE 405e - Mount Sinai

AE 405e [25]
Because "a mountain" signified the good of love
and in reference to the Lord,
the Divine good of the Divine love,
from which good Divine truth proceeds,
so Jehovah, that is, the Lord,
descended upon Mount Sinai and promulgated the law.

(promulgated - to make known, to declare)

AE 405b - peace

AE 405b [8]
. . . "peace" in the highest sense signifies the Lord,
and in the internal sense
every good and truth that is from the Lord.

AE 404 - a book rolled up, a scroll

AE 404
. . . the spiritual mind, which is, as was said,
the higher or interior mind with a person,
is opened by truths applied to life, thus by goods,
but it is closed up by falsities applied to life, thus by evils . . .
as the rolling up of the scroll of a book.
. . . By "book" is meant a scroll,
because in ancient times there were no types
and thus no books like those of the present day,
but there were scrolls of parchments . . .

AE 403c - sitting under the vine and fig-tree

AE 403c [12]
In the end of the days it shall be
that the mountain of the house of Jehovah
shall be established as the head of the mountains;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more;
but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree;
and none shall make afraid.
(Micah 4:1, 3-4).

These things are said respecting the Lord's kingdom,
which is with those in the heavens and on the earth who are in love to Him.
. . . "the mountain of Jehovah" signifies the Lord's kingdom
constituted of those who are in love to Him;
and as these dwell above the others in the heavens,
it is said that this mountain
"shall be established as the head of the mountains".
And as such have truths inscribed on their hearts,
and therefore do not dispute about them, it is said that
"nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more,". . ..
That through the truths and goods in which they are,
they shall be safe from evils and falsities is signified by
"they shall sit under their own vine and under their own fig tree,
and none shall make afraid."

AE 403b - gardens and goods and truths

AE 403b [8]
Your many gardens and your vineyards,
and your fig-trees and your olive-trees,
the palmer worm has devoured;
yet have you not returned unto me.
(Amos 4:9)

"Gardens" signify all things of the church
that constitute intelligence and wisdom;
"vineyards" spiritual goods and truths;
"fig-trees" natural goods and truths;
"olive-trees" celestial goods and truths;
"the palmer worm" means the falsity that destroys;
"the fig-tree," "the vine," and "the olive" properly signify the church
and the person of the church;
but as the church is a church and a person is a person from goods and truths,
so these also are signified by those trees,
goods by their fruits,
and truths by their branches and leaves.

(Palmer worms are hairy caterpillars with voracious appetites.)

AE 401e - praise Him

AE 401e [23]
Praise ye Jehovah, all His angels;
praise ye Him, all His hosts;
praise ye Him, sun and moon; praise Him, all ye stars of light;
praise Him, ye heavens of heavens.
(Psalm 148:1-4).
"To praise Jehovah" signifies to worship Him;
"angels" signify those who are in Divine truths from the good of love,
for such are angels;
"all the hosts" signify goods and truths in the whole complex;
"sun and moon" signify the good of love and the truth from that good;
"the stars of light" signify the knowledges of truth from good;
"the heavens of heavens"
signify goods and truths both internal and external . . .

AE 401c - turn

AE 401c [12]
. . . those who are in evils and in falsities therefrom
turn themselves away from the good of love and charity,
consequently from the Lord,
and then they will nothing but evil and think nothing but falsity,
and those who will and think no other,
see nothing but thick darkness
and darkness in such things as pertain to heaven and the church.

AE 401b, c - the Sun shines & enlightens

AE 401b[4]
Likewise when the Lord was seen by John as an angel,
respecting which we read:

And I saw a strong angel coming down out of heaven,
encompassed with a cloud,
and a rainbow about his head,
and his face was as the sun.
(Revelation. 10:1)

for "angels" in the Word in its spiritual sense do not mean angels,
but something Divine from the Lord,
since the Divine that appears from them is not theirs,
but the Lord's with them.
So, too, the Divine truth they speak, which is full of wisdom,
they do not speak from themselves,
but from the Lord,
for they have been people,
and people have all wisdom and intelligence from the Lord.
This makes clear that in the Word "angel" means the Lord,
who also then appeared as a sun.

AE 401c [10]
. . . those who are in love to the Lord
and in charity towards the neighbor
it shall then be given to understand truths . . .

AE 400 - "an earthquake"

AE 400b [2]
. . . "an earthquake" signifies a change of state of the church,
that is, from good into evil, and from truth into falsity.

AE 400d [14]
It is recorded also in the Word that there was an earthquake when the Lord suffered upon the cross, and also when the angel descended and rolled away the stone from the mouth of the sepulcher; and each of these earthquakes signified a change in the state of the church. Of the earthquake that occurred when the Lord suffered it is thus written:

The veil in the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom;
and the earth did quake, and the rocks were rent.
The centurion and they that were with him guarding Jesus,
seeing the earthquake and the things that were done,
feared exceedingly, saying,
Truly this was the Son of God.
(Matthew 27:51, 54)

And of the earthquake that occurred when the angel descended and rolled away the stone from the mouth of the sepulcher it is said:

When Mary Magdalene came and the other Mary to see the sepulcher,
and behold, there was a great earthquake;
for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven,
and coming, rolled away the stone from the mouth,
and sat upon it.
(Matthew 28:1-2)

These earthquakes occurred to indicate that the state of the church was then changed; for the Lord by His last temptation, which He endured in Gethsemane and upon the cross, conquered the hells, and put in order all things there and in the heavens, and also glorified His Human, that is, made it Divine; for this reason "there was an earthquake, and the rocks were rent." "The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom" signified that His Human was made Divine; for within the veil was the ark in which was the Testimony, and "the Testimony" signified the Lord in respect to His Divine Human (see above, n. 392). "The veil" signified the external of the church which was with the Jews and Israelites, and that covered their eyes that they might not see the Lord and Divine truth, or the Word in its own light. The "great earthquake" that occurred when the angel descended from heaven and rolled away the stone from the mouth of the sepulcher, has a like signification, namely, that the state of the church was altogether changed; for the Lord then rose again, and in respect to His Human assumed all dominion over heaven and earth, as He Himself says in Matthew (28:18). "The angel rolled away the stone from the mouth and sat upon it" signifies that the Lord removed all the falsity that had shut off access to Him, and that He opened Divine truth, "the stone" signifying the Divine truth which the Jews had falsified by their tradition; for it is said that:

The chief priests and Pharisees sealed the stone with a guard;
but that an angel from heaven removed it and sat upon it.
(Matthew 27:66; 28:2)

The things that have been said respecting these earthquakes, and the veil of the temple, and the stone before the mouth of sepulcher, are but a few, but the things signified by them are many, for each and everything that is written in the Gospels respecting the Lord's Passion involves arcana and is significative. The earthquakes mentioned elsewhere in Revelation also signify changes of the state of the church (as chap. 11:13; 16:17-19).

AE 395e - Isaiah 61:10

AE 395e [12]
I will rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall exult in my God;
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;
He has covered me with the robe or righteousness.
(Isaiah 61:10)

"To rejoice in Jehovah" signifies to rejoice in Divine good;
"to exult in God" signifies to exult in Divine truth;
for the Lord is called "Jehovah" from Divine good,
and "God" from Divine truth,
and from these is all spiritual joy.
"To clothe with the garments of salvation"
signifies to instruct and to gift with truths;
and "to cover with the robe of righteousness"
signifies to fill with every truth from good,
"robe" meaning all truth, because it means truth in general,
and "righteousness" is predicated of good.

AE 392a - what the Lord speaks

AE 392a
What the Lord speaks is called the Word of God,
and this Divine truth.
The Word or the Sacred Scripture is nothing else;
for in it all Divine truth is contained . . .

AE 391g - our Maker, the Holy One of Israel

AE 391g [23]
In that day shall a man have respect to his Maker,
and his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.
(Isaiah 17:7)

The Lord is called "Maker"
because he leads into the goods of life,
for these make a person;
and He is called "the Holy One of Israel"
because He teaches the truths of doctrine . . .

AE 391c - iniquity & sin

AE 391c [8]
. . . for "iniquity" is predicated of the life of falsity,
that is, of a life contrary to truths,
and "sin" of the life of evil,
that is of a life contrary to good.

AE 388d & 388f - wild beasts

AE 388d [21]
"The evil wild beast" means all ravenous beasts,
such as lions, bears, tigers, panthers, wild boars, wolves,
dragons, serpents, and many others,
which seize and rend asunder good animals,
such as lambs, sheep, bullocks, oxen, and the like.
That such wild beasts, and in general, "the evil wild beast,"
signify lusts springing from the love of self and the world,
from which are all the evils of life and the falsities of doctrine . . ..

AE 388f [31]
When, however, "the wild beast of the earth" is mentioned,
it means a wild beast that devours animals and men;
but when "the wild beast of the field" is mentioned,
it means a wild beast that eats up the crops;
therefore "the wild beast of the earth"
signifies such things as destroy the goods of the church,
and "the wild beast of the field"
such things as destroy the truths of the church . . .

AE 388b - "little by little"

AE 388b [6]
By little and little I will drive out the nations,
lest the land become a waste,
and the wild beast of the field be multiplied against thee.
(Exodus 23:29-30; Deuteronomy 7:22)

. . ."nations" signify the evils that a person has, even those from inheritance;
and that these with a person are removed "by little and little,"
since if they were removed suddenly,
before good is formed in him by truths,
falsities would enter which would destroy him.
"The wild beasts of the field"
signify the falsities springing from the delights of natural loves.

AE 386d - bread

AE 386d [20, 28]
"Jehovah gives bread to the hungry,"
(Psalm 146:7)
"to give bread" meaning to nourish,
and spiritual nourishment is knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom.

I am the bread of life;
he that comes to Me shall not hunger,
and he that believes on Me shall never thirst.
(John 6:35)
. . . "to hunger" is to come to the Lord,
and "to thirst" is to believe on Him;
to come to the Lord is to do His commandments.

AE 386a - "And with famine" (Revelation 6:8)

AE 386a
And with famine . .
as being the deprivation of the knowledges of truth and good,
also the lack and ignorance of them.
These are signified by "famine" in the Word.
This is the signification of "famine"
because "food and drink"
signify all things that nourish and sustain spiritual life,
and these in general are the knowledges of truth and good.
The spiritual life itself needs nourishment and support
just as much as the natural life does;
so it is said to be famished
when a person is deprived of these knowledges,
or when they fail, or when they are unknown
and yet are desired.

AC 382 - our reaction to the Lord & His Word

AE 382
. . . the Word appears to everyone according to his quality,
as life to those who are in good and truth,
but as death to those who are in evils and falsities.
It is similar with the Lord Himself, who is the Word;
He too appears to everyone according to his quality;
to those who are in goods and truths therefrom
He appears as a fire and as light vivifying and recreating,
but to those who are in evils and in falsities therefrom
He appears as a consuming fire and as thick darkness.
And for the same reason
to those who are in evil and in falsities therefrom
the Lord appears to be angry, to punish, to condemn, and to cast into hell,
when yet He is never angry, never punishes, or condemns, or casts into hell,
but saves so far as a person applies himself;
for the Lord is good itself and truth itself,
He is love itself and mercy itself.

AE 376f,g - living determines the Light

AE 376f [32]
. . .a life of evil shuts
out the perception of good
by which thought has life and light,
and the principles of falsity
shut out the understanding of truth . . .

AE 376g [37]
But those who are not in the love of self,
and who seek intelligence for the sake of the uses of life,
are elevated by the Lord
from what is their own proprium
into the light of heaven . . .

AE 376a-b - the Lord flows in and we can receive and do

AE 376a [3]
. . . where good is rejected
no truth which is truth in itself can exist,
since all truth is from good;
for the Lord flows into a person's good,
and by means of good illustrates him
and gives him the light to perceive truths,
therefore without that light,
which is a person's very spiritual life,
there is no truth,
however much it may sound like truth because it is from the Word;
it is truth falsified by the ideas that are held in respect to it . . ..

. . . no one can be in genuine truths from good
unless in heart he acknowledges
the Lord alone as the God of heaven and earth,
for from Him is every good and consequently every truth.

AE 376b [6]
. . . he who receives good and truth shall also perform uses . . .

. . . from the good of love to the Lord
and from the good of charity towards the neighbor
there shall be truths in abundance . . .

. . . for wisdom comes when truths are committed to life . . .

AE 375e - a good question

AE 375e [36]
Jehovah fed him with the increase of the fields,
He made him to suck honey out of the cliff,
and oil out of the flint of the rock.
(Deuteronomy 32:13)
This treats of the Ancient Church;
"to suck oil out of the flint of the rock"
means to be imbued with good through the truths of faith;
"honey" means natural good and delight;
"oil" spiritual good and delight;
and "cliff" and "flint of the rock" mean the truth of faith from the Lord.
If spiritual things were not meant by these words,
what meaning could there be in
"sucking honey out of the cliff, and oil out of the flint of the rock"?

AE 375d - arms of war

AE 375d [11]
Arms of war were anointed
because they signified truths fighting against falsities,
and truths from good are what prevail against falsities,
but not truths without good;
therefore the arms of war represented the truths
by which the Lord Himself with a person
fights against the falsities from evil which are from hell.

AE 374 - "O that My people. . ."

AE 374c [11]
O that My people would listen to Me,
and Israel would walk in My ways!
I would feed them with the fat of wheat;
and with honey out of the rock I would satisfy them.
(Psalm 81:13, 16)

"Fat of wheat," and
"honey out of the rock with which they would be fed and satisfied"
signify good of every kind from celestial good
and enjoyment thereof from the Lord;
for "fat" signifies celestial good,
"wheat" good of every kind,
"honey" the enjoyment of good,
and "rock" the Lord.
That those who live according to the Lord's commandments
will possess these things is meant by
"O that My people would listen to me,
and Israel would walk in My ways!"
"Ways" in the Word signifying truths and also commandments,
and "to walk" signifying to live.

AE 372a - a black horse

AE 372a
And behold, a black horse,
(Revelation 6:6)
signifies the understanding of the Word destroyed in respect to truth.
This is evident from the signification of "horse,"
as being the understanding;
also from the signification of "black," as being what is not true . . ..
"Black" signifies what is not true,
because "white" signifies what is true.
. . . "White" is predicated of truth and signifies it,
because white has its origin in the brightness of light,
and "light" signifies truth;
and "black" is predicated of what is not true and signifies it,
because black has its origin in darkness, that is, from the privation of light;
and because darkness exists from the privation of light
it signifies the ignorance of truth.
That "a black horse" here signifies
the understanding of the Word destroyed in respect to truth,
is evident from the signification of "the red horse",
as being the understanding destroyed in respect to good.

AE 365h - What destroys peace?

AE 365h [42]
Because those have peace
who are in the conjunction of good and truth from the Lord,
and because evil destroys good,
and falsity destroys truth,
so do these destroy peace.
From this it follows
that those who are in evils and falsities have no peace.
It appears as if they had peace
when they have success in the world,
and they even seem to themselves
at such times to be in a contented state of mind;
but that apparent peace is only in their externals,
while inwardly there is no peace . . ..

AE 365 - peace & spiritual healing

AE 365 [19]
"Peace" stands for heavenly blessedness, happiness, and delight,
and these are granted only with those
that love to do the Lord's commandments . . ..

AE 365 [32]
. . . to be healed spiritually is to be delivered from evils and falsities,
and this is done by the Lord by means of truths . . ..

AE 365 [40]
The work of Jehovah is peace;
and the labor of righteousness, quietness and security even forever;
that My people may dwell in a habitation of peace,
and in tabernacles of securities,
and in tranquil resting places.
(Isaiah 32:17-18)

"Peace" is called "the work of Jehovah,"
because it is solely from the Lord;
and everything that comes forth out of peace from the Lord
with those who are in conjunction with the Lord
is called "the work of Jehovah;"
therefore it is said, "the work of Jehovah is peace."
The "labor of righteousness"
signifies good conjoined to truth, in which is peace;
for "labor" in the Word is predicated of truth,
"righteousness" of good,
and "quietness" of the peace therein . . ..

AE 365 - the origin of peace

AE 365b [5,6,14]
. . . peace is in its first origin . . . from the Lord;
it is in Him from the union of the Divine Itself and the Divine Human,
and it is from Him by His conjunction with heaven and the church,
and in particular from the conjunction of good and truth in each individual.
From this it is that "peace," in the highest sense, signifies the Lord;
in a relative sense, heaven and the church in general,
and also heaven and the church in particular in each individual.

Jesus said, Peace I leave with you,
My peace I give unto you,
not as the world gives
give I unto you.
Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid.
(John 14:27)

This treats of the Lord's union with the Father,
that is, the union of His Divine Human with the Divine Itself
which was in Him from conception,
and consequently of the Lord's conjunction
with those who are in truths from goods;
therefore "peace" means tranquility of mind from that conjunction;
and as such are protected by that conjunction
from the evils and falsities that are from hell,
for the Lord protects those who are conjoined with Him,
therefore He says,
"Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
This Divine peace is in a person . . ..

Peace viewed in itself is not heaven and heavenly joy,
but these are in peace and from peace;
for peace is like the dawn or like spring-time in the world,
which dispose human minds to receive in the heart
delights and pleasures from the objects that appear before the eyes,
for that is what makes them delightful and pleasant;
and because all things of heaven and of heavenly joy
are in like manner from Divine peace,
these also are meant by "peace."
Since a person has heaven from living according to the commandments,
for thence he has conjunction with the Lord,
therefore it is said,

If you walk in My statutes,
and keep My commandments,
and do them,
I will give peace in the land.
(portions of Leviticus 26:3,6)

AE 365 - "to take peace from the earth" (Revelation 6:4)

AE 365[2,4]
. . . if good is not present with a person when he is reading the Word,
truth does not appear,
for truth is seen from good,
and good by means of truth.

. . . because "peace" signifies a peaceful state of the mind
and tranquillity of the disposition
from the conjunction of good and truth;
therefore "to take away peace"
signifies an unpeaceful and untranquil state
from the disjunction of good and truth,
which is the cause of internal dissensions;
for when good is separated from truth evil takes its place . . ..


The whole number, mostly:

AE 365 [1-4]
And to him that sat upon him,
to him it was given to take peace from the earth, (Revelation 6:4)
signifies the Word consequently not understood,
consequently there are dissensions in the church . . ..
[2] Before it is explained what "peace" signifies, let something be said about dissensions arising in the church when the understanding of the Word is destroyed. By good, the good of love to the Lord and the good of love towards the neighbor are meant, since all good is of love. When these goods do not exist with the person of the church, the Word is not understood; for the conjunction of the Lord and the conjunction of heaven with the person of the church is by means of good; therefore if there is no good with him no illustration can be given; for all illustration when the Word is being read is out of heaven from the Lord; and when there is no illustration the truths that are in the Word are in obscurity, thence dissensions spring up. That the Word is not understood if a person is not in good can also be seen from this, that in the particulars of the Word there is a heavenly marriage, that is, a conjunction of good and truth; therefore if good is not present with a person when he is reading the Word, truth does not appear, for truth is seen from good, and good by means of truth.
[3] The state of the case is this: so far as a person is in good the Lord flows in and gives the affection of truth, and thus understanding; for the interior human mind is formed entirely in the image of heaven, and the whole heaven is formed according to the affections of good and of truth from good; therefore unless there is good with a person, that mind cannot be opened, still less can it be formed for heaven; it is formed by the conjunction of good and truth. From this it can also be seen that unless a person is in good, truths have no ground in which to be received, nor any heat by which to grow; for truths with the person who is in good are like seeds in the ground in the time of spring; while truths with the person who is not in good are like seeds in ground bound by frost in the time of winter, when there is no grass, nor flower, nor tree, still less fruit.
[4] In the Word are all truths of heaven and the church, yea, all the secrets of wisdom that the angels of heaven possess; but no one sees these unless he is in the good of love to the Lord and in the good of love towards the neighbor; those who are not, see truths here and there, but do not understand them; they have a perception and idea of them wholly different from that which pertains to these same truths in themselves; although, therefore, they see or know truths, still truths are not truths with them, but falsities; for truths are not truths from their sound or utterance, but from an idea and perception of them. When truths are implanted in good it is different; then truths appear in their own form, for truth is the form of good. From this it may be concluded what the nature of the understanding of the Word is with those who make faith alone the sole means of salvation, and cast behind the back the good of life, or the good of charity. It has been found that those who have confirmed themselves in this, both in doctrine and life, have not even a single right idea of truth; this, moreover, is why they do not know what good is, what charity and love are, what the neighbor is, what heaven and hell are, that they are to live after death as people, nor, indeed, what regeneration is, what baptism is, and many other things; yea, they are in such blindness respecting God Himself that they worship three in thought, and not one except merely with the mouth, not knowing that the Father of the Lord is the Divine in Him, and that the Holy Spirit is the Divine from Him. These things are said to make known that there is no understanding of the Word where there is no good. It is here said that to him that sat upon a red horse, it was given "to take peace from the earth," because "peace" signifies a peaceful state of the mind [mens] and tranquillity of the disposition [animus] from the conjunction of good and truth; therefore "to take away peace" signifies an unpeaceful and untranquil state from the disjunction of good and truth, which is the cause of internal dissensions; for when good is separated from truth evil takes its place; and evil loves not truth but falsity; because every falsity belongs to evil, as every truth to good; when, therefore, such a person sees a truth in the Word or hears it from another, the evil of his love, and thus of his will, strives against the truth, and then he either rejects or perverts it, or by ideas from the evil so obscures it that at length he sees nothing of truth in the truth, however much it may sound like truth when he utters it. This is the origin of all dissensions, controversies, and heresies in the church. From this it can be seen what is here signified by "to take peace from the earth."

AE 359 - to conquer

AE 359
And he went forth conquering and that He might conquer,
(Revelation 6:2)
. . . "to conquer" in the Word as being to conquer spiritually,
which is to subjugate evils and falsities;
but as these are not conquered otherwise
than that they are taken away by the Lord,
"to conquer" signifies the removal of evils and falsities.

Jesus [said] to the disciples,
These things I have spoken unto you
that in Me you might have peace.
In the world you shall have tribulation;
but confide, I have overcome the world.
(John 16:33)
The Lord's "overcoming the world" means that He subjugated all the hells;
for "the world" here signifies all evils and falsities, which are from hell.

AE 357b - the power of His Divine Truth

AE 357b [5,9]
. . . He disperses evils and falsities as if they were nothing,
by His Divine truth and by the doctrine therefrom . . .

. . . in the Lord and from Him is the Divine truth,
by means of which falsities and evils are dispersed,
and that in Him and from him is the Word,
where these truths are . . .

AE 356 - doctrine

AE 356
1. Without doctrine no one can understand the Word.
2. Without doctrine from the Word
no one can fight against evils and falsities, and disperse them.
3. Without doctrine from the Word
no one within the church, where the Word is, can become spiritual.
4. Doctrine can be acquired from no other source than from the Word,
and by none except those who are in illustration from the Lord.
(From section 356 [4])
They are in illustration from the Lord who love truths because they are truths;
and because such as these do them,
they are in the Lord and the Lord is in them.
5. All things of doctrine must be confirmed
by the sense of the letter of the Word.

AE 355g - serving the spiritual

AE 355g [37]
. . . let no one from being a spiritual person become natural,
and lead himself, and trust in his own proprium instead of in the Lord,
that is, let not the truths of the spiritual person serve the natural,
instead of the knowledges of the natural person serve the spiritual;
for this latter is according to order,
but the former is contrary to order.

AE 355 - the understanding of truth

AE 355c [14]
The Lord is called the Word,
because the Word means Divine truth proceeding from Him.

. . . all doctrine of truth and the understanding of it
are out of heaven from the Lord . . .

AE 351 - "And I saw" (Revelation 6:1)

AE 351
It is said, the church where the Word is,
because the Lord's church is in the whole world,
but in a special sense where the Word is,
and where the Lord is known through the Word.
. . . This church is especially treated of
because the Lord, and thus the angels of heaven,
are present with the people of this earth by means of the Word;
for the Word is written by pure correspondences:
from this it comes that the Lord and the angels of heaven
are present also with those who are around or outside the church . . .
. . . for the Lord flows in therefrom with love and with light,
and vivifies and enlightens all who are in any spiritual affection for truth,
wherever they are.
The light of heaven,
or the light in which are the angels of heaven who are from this earth,
is from the Lord by means of the Word;
from this as from a center light is diffused
into the circumferences in every direction . . . by the Lord,
and what is done in heaven flows also into the minds of people,
for the minds of people make one with the minds of spirits and angels.

AE 349 - from the Lord

AE 349
. . . no good and no truth,
so neither love nor faith,
is in a person,
but that they flow in from the Lord.
Life itself is in good and truth,
and nowhere else.

AE 343 - the Lord's Divine

AE 343
The Divine that constitutes heaven
and gives to angels and people
love, faith, wisdom, and intelligence,
proceeds not immediately from the Lord's Divine Itself,
but through His Divine Human,
and this Divine that proceeds is the Holy Spirit.

. . . for the Lord's Divine is that which assumed the Human,
and for that reason He called it His Father . . ..
And the Divine Proceeding is what is called the Holy Spirit,
the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Truth, and the Paraclete . . .

. . . they are one essence when the three are names of one person,
namely, the Divine Itself, called the Father;
the Divine Human, called the Son;
and the Divine Proceeding, called the Holy Spirit.

AE 340 - blessing

AE 340c [12]
I will give them the circuits of My hill as a blessing,
and I will send down the rain in its time;
there shall be rains of blessing.
Then the tree shall yield its fruit,
the land shall yield its produce.
(Ezekiel 34:26-27).

He who sees the Word merely in its natural sense
believes no other than that "blessing"
means such things as are mentioned in that sense,
namely, that rain should be given to make fruitful the gardens and fields,
and thus the tree should yield its fruit and the land its produce;
but it is a spiritual blessing that is meant,
for "rain" signifies everything Divine
that flows into a person from the Lord out of heaven.
That truths will produce good, and that good will produce truths,
is signified by "the tree shall yield its fruit, and the land its produce,"
"land" and also the "garden," in which there are trees, meaning the church;
these and "the circuits of My hill which are to be given as a blessing,"
signify the internal and external with the people of the church,
"circuit" signifying what is outside or below,
and "hill" what is within or above,
especially where charity is, for that is within.

AE 333 - the dominion

AE 333
And we shall reign upon the earth
(Revelation 5:10)
. . . it is truths from good that are to reign,
thus the Lord alone from whom these are.
. . . It is said in the sense of the letter that these are to reign,
because the sense of the letter is personal;
when therefore it is said in that sense
that they are to be "kings and priests,"
it is also said that they are "to reign;"
but in the spiritual sense everything of person is put off,
and thus everything of dominion belonging to person,
and dominion is left to the Lord alone.

AE 331 - nations & peoples

AE 331 [9]
All peoples, nations, and tongues shall worship Him;
His dominion is an everlasting dominion,
which shall not pass away,
and His kingdom that which shall not perish.
(Daniel 7:14)

This is said of the Lord;
and "peoples" and "nations" mean all who are in truths and goods;
and "all tongues" mean all of whatever doctrine or religion;
for the Lord's church is universal,
since it exists with all who are in the good of life,
and who from their doctrine look to heaven,
and thereby conjoin themselves to the Lord.
Because "nations" signify those who are in the good of love,
and "peoples" whose who are in the good of charity
and in the truths of faith therefrom,
it is said, "His dominion is an everlasting dominion,
and His kingdom shall not pass away;"
"dominion" in the Word is predicated of good,
and "kingdom" of truth;
for this reason the Lord is call "Lord" from Divine good,
and "King" from Divine truth.

AE 329d - spiritual things

AE 329d [15]
With a person there are two things that constitute his spiritual life,
namely the good of love and the truth of faith.
With him the will is the receptacle of the good of love,
and the understanding is the receptacle of the truth of faith.
. . . In general, the correspondence of the will is with the flesh,
and the correspondence of the understanding with the blood . . .
These things are mentioned that it may be known
that in the Word things voluntary and intellectual, that is, spiritual things,
are meant by "flesh and blood" when a person is referred to,
and things Divine when the Lord is referred to.
But these things are for those whose minds
can be elevated above natural ideas and can see causes.

AE 329 - food & drink

AE 329 [2-3]
Spiritual food is all the good
that is communicated and given to a person by the Lord,
and spiritual drink
is all the truth that is communicated and given to a person by the Lord.
These two, namely, good and truth, or love and faith,
make a person spiritual . . ..

Again, spiritual nourishment is from the good and truth
that proceed from the Lord,
as all nourishment of the body is from food and drink;
their correspondence also is from this,
which is such that where anything of food, or that serves for food,
is mentioned in the Word, good is meant,
and where anything of drink, or that serves for drink,
is mentioned, truth is meant.

AE 329 - a sapphire stone

AE 329 [6,7]
And they saw the God of Israel,
and under His feet as it were a work of sapphire stone,
and as the substance of the heavens for purity.
(Exodus 24:3-11)

Words or truths become truths of life by doing
. . . that there is conjunction by means of them.

Because Divine truth,
by which there is conjunction,
proceeds from the Lord,
the Lord appeared to the people
"under the feet as it were a work of sapphire stone;"
that He so appeared "under the feet"
signifying that Divine truth is such in ultimates.
Divine truth in ultimates is Divine truth in the sense of the letter of the Word;
"work of sapphire stone"
signifies the translucence of this sense from Divine truth
in the internal or spiritual sense;
"the God of Israel" is the Lord.

AE 328 - the first thing of the church

AE 328 [6,7]
The primary thing is to acknowledge the Lord,
to acknowledge His Divine in the Human,
and His omnipotence to save the human race;
for by that acknowledgment a person is conjoined to the Divine,
since there is no Divine except in Him;
for the Father is there;
for the Father is in Him, and He in the Father,
as the Lord Himself teaches;
consequently they who look to another Divine near Him, or at His side,
as those are wont to do
who pray to the Father to have mercy for the sake of the Son,
turn aside from the way and worship a Divine elsewhere than in Him.
Moreover, they then give no thought to the Divine of the Lord,
but only to the Human, when yet these cannot be separated;
for the Divine and the Human are not two, but a single person,
conjoined like soul and body . . ..
Therefore to acknowledge the Divine in the Lord's Human,
or the Divine Human,
is the primary thing of the church, by which there is conjunction;
and because it is the primary it is also the first thing of the church.
It is because this is the first thing of the church,
that the Lord, when He was in the world,
so often said to those whom He healed,
"Do you believe that I can do this?"
and when they answered that they believed, He said,
"Be it done according to your faith."
This He so often said that they might believe,
in the first place, that from His Divine Human He had Divine omnipotence,
for without that belief the church could not be begun,
and without that belief they could not have been conjoined with the Divine,
but must have been separated from it,
and thus would not have been able to receive anything good from him.

Afterwards the Lord taught how they were to be saved,
namely, by receiving Divine truth from Him;
and truth is received when it is applied to the life
and implanted in it by doing it;
therefore the Lord so often said that they should do His words.
From this it can be seen that these two things,
namely, believing in the Lord and doing His words, make one,
and can by no means be separated;
for he who does not do the Lord's words
does not believe in Him;
so also he who thinks that he believes in Him
and does not do His words
does not believe in Him,
for the Lord is in His words, that is, in His truths,
and by them He gives faith to a person.
From these few things it can be known
that conjunction with the Divine is effected
through the acknowledgment of the Lord
and the reception of Divine truth from Him.

AE 326 - singing & heavenly joy

AE 326
"To sing a song" signifies confession from joy of heart,
because joy of heart, when it is in fullness, expresses itself in song,
this it does because when the heart,
and in consequence the thought also,
is full of joy, it pours itself forth in singing,
the joy of the heart itself through the sound of the singing,
and the joy of the thought therefrom through the song.
The kind of joy of the thought is expressed by the words of the song,
which concur and agree with the matter that is in the thought from the heart;
the kind of joy of the heart is expressed by the harmony,
and the measure of this joy
is expressed by the exaltation of the sound and the words in it.
All these flow as if spontaneously from the joy itself,
and for the reason that the whole heaven is formed
according to the affections of good and truth,
the highest heaven according to the affections of good,
and the middle heaven according to the affections of truth;
it is therefore formed also for joys,
for every joy is from an affection, or from love;
from this it is that in all angelic discourse there is a kind of harmony.

[13] I will add to this an arcanum:
the angels who constitute in heaven the Lord's celestial kingdom,
when a person is reading the Word,
draw from his affection alone the internal sense of it,
which affection arises from the sound of the words in the original tongue;
but the angels who are in the Lord's spiritual kingdom
draw the internal sense from the truths that the words contain;
therefore the person who is in spiritual affection
has from the celestial kingdom joy of heart,
and from the spiritual kingdom confession from that joy.
The sounds of the musical instruments . . . elevate the affection,
and the truths give form to it.
That this is so is well known to those skilled in the art of music.
For this reason the Psalms of David are called "psalms,"
from psallere [to play]; they are also called "songs" from singing;
for they were played and sung
with the accompanying sounds of various instruments.

AE 325 - worship & practical piety

AE 325a [2-4]
"Incense" signifies spiritual good,
which is the good of charity towards the neighbor;
and "meal-offering" signifies celestial good,
which is the good of love to the Lord;
thus both signifying worship.

Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion,
but in a life of charity;
prayers are only its externals,
for they proceed from the person through his mouth,
consequently a person's prayers are such
as they themselves are in respect to life.
It matters not that a person bears himself humbly,
that he kneels and sighs when he prays; for these are externals,
and unless externals proceed from internals
they are only gestures and sounds without life.
In each thing that a person utters there is affection . . ..
Spiritual affection is what is called charity towards the neighbor;
to be in that affection is true worship;
praying is what proceeds.
From this it can be seen that the essential of worship is the life of charity,
and that its instrumental is gesture and praying;
or that the primary of worship is a life of charity,
and its secondary is praying.
From this it is clear that those who place all Divine worship in oral piety,
and not in practical piety, err greatly.

Practical piety is to act in every work and in every duty
from sincerity and right, and from justice and equity,
and this because it is commanded by the Lord in the Word;
for thus a person in his every work looks to heaven and to the Lord,
and thus is conjoined with Him.
But to act sincerely and rightly, justly and equitably,
solely from fear of the law, of the loss of fame or of honor and gain,
and to think nothing of the Divine law,
of the commandments of the Word, and of the Lord,
and yet to pray devoutly in the churches,
is external piety; however holy this may appear, it is not piety,
but it is either hypocrisy,
or something put on derived from habit,
or a kind of persuasion from a false belief
that Divine worship consists merely in this;
for such a person does not look
to heaven and to the Lord with the heart, but only with the eyes;
the heart looking to self and to the world,
and the mouth speaking from the habit of the body only and its memory;
by this a person is conjoined to the world and not to heaven, and to self
and not to the Lord.

AE 325 - worship & practical piety

AE 325a [2-4]
"Incense" signifies spiritual good,
which is the good of charity towards the neighbor;
and "meal-offering" signifies celestial good,
which is the good of love to the Lord; thus both signifying worship.

Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion,
but in a life of charity; prayers are only its externals,
for they proceed from the person through his mouth,
consequently a person's prayers are such
as they themselves are in respect to life.
It matters not that a person bears himself humbly,
that he kneels and sighs when he prays; for these are externals,
and unless externals proceed from internals
they are only gestures and sounds without life.
In each thing that a person utters there is affection . . ..
Spiritual affection is what is called charity towards the neighbor;
to be in that affection is true worship;
praying is what proceeds.
From this it can be seen that the essential of worship is the life of charity,
and that its instrumental is gesture and praying;
or that the primary of worship is a life of charity,
and its secondary is praying.
From this it is clear that those who place all Divine worship in oral piety,
and not in practical piety, err greatly.

Practical piety is to act in every work and in every duty
from sincerity and right, and from justice and equity,
and this because it is commanded by the Lord in the Word;
for thus a person in his every work looks to heaven and to the Lord,
and thus is conjoined with Him.
But to act sincerely and rightly, justly and equitably,
solely from fear of the law, of the loss of fame or of honor and gain,
and to think nothing of the Divine law,
of the commandments of the Word, and of the Lord,
and yet to pray devoutly in the churches, is external piety;
however holy this may appear,
it is not piety, but it is either hypocrisy,
or something put on derived from habit,
or a kind of persuasion from a false belief
that Divine worship consists merely in this;
for such a person does not look
to heaven and to the Lord with the heart, but only with the eyes;
the heart looking to self and to the world,
and the mouth speaking from the habit of the body only and its memory;
by this a person is conjoined to the world and not to heaven, and to self
and not to the Lord.

AE 324 - two altars

AE 324[2]
. . . spiritual good has its origin and existence from celestial good,
which good is the good of love to the Lord from the Lord,
and is therefore the very good of heaven . . ..
Spiritual good, which has its origin and existence from celestial good,
is the good of charity towards the neighbor;
worship from this good is what is signified by "incense."
As all worship of the Lord comes from good,
although through truths,
and as there are two universal goods that make the heavens
and distinguish them into two kingdoms,
namely, celestial good, which is the good of love to the Lord,
and spiritual good, which is the good of charity towards the neighbor,
therefore with the sons of Israel there were two altars,
one for burnt offerings, the other for incense-offerings;
the altar of burnt offering signifying worship from the good of celestial love,
and the altar of incense worship from the good of spiritual love . . .

AE 316d - 3 short bits about good & truth

AE 316d [3,23,27]

. . . "strength" in the Word has reference to the power of good,
and "horn" to the power of truth . . ..

. . . in every particular of the Word there is a marriage of good and truth . . ..

. . . all worship that is truly worship
is offered from the good of love by truths.

AE 316b - service

AE 316b [8]
. . . truth serves good for use . . .

AE 314b - to feed, to teach

AE 314b [5]
Because "lambs" signify those who are in the love to the Lord,
which love is one with innocence,
and because "sheep" signify those who are in love towards the neighbor,
which love is charity,
the Lord said to Peter:

Simon, son of Jonas, do you love Me?
He said unto Him,
Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.
He said unto Him, Feed My lambs;
and afterwards, Feed My sheep.
(John 21:15-17)

These things were said to Peter,
because by "Peter" truth from good, or faith from charity was meant,
and truth from good teaches;
"to feed" meaning to teach.

AE 313 - "in the midst"

AE 313 [8,10,13]
Behold, I send an angel before thee;
beware of his face,
since My name is in the midst of him.
(Exodus 23:20-21)
"Angel" here, in the highest sense, means the Lord;
"My name in the midst of him,"
means that all Divine good and Divine truth are in him

. . . when the inmost is spiritual,
which is truth from good,
then the rational also which is therefrom is spiritual,
and likewise the knowing faculty,
for both are formed from the inmost,
which is truth from good, or the spiritual.

The "midst of man" means the intellectual where truth should be;
and the "heart" the voluntary where good should be . . .

AE 309 - He is called a "Lion;" for "lion" signifies power

AE 309
. . . the soul of everyone works by means of the body,
for the body is the soul's obedience.

The Father that abides in Me,
He does the works.
Believe Me,
that I am in the Father,
and the Father in Me.
(John 14:10-11)

As the Divine, which the Lord calls "the Father,"
was His Divine, and not another Divine,
it can be seen that whatever He did from the Father,
as well as whatever He did from the Human
which He calls "the Son,"
He did from Himself;
and thus that He did all things by His own power,
since He did them from what was His.

AE 304 - the interiors

AE 304f [53]
. . . the interiors that are of a person's spiritual mind are the heavens with him.

AE 304d - truth and good of the church

AE 304d [29]
When it is said the truth and good of the church,
the truth of faith and the good of love are meant,
for all truth is of faith,
and all good is of love.

AE 304 - angels & men

AE 304
. . . angels
equally with men
understand nothing at all of truth from themselves,
but solely from the Lord.

AE 297 - the Lord's judgment

AE 297 [1,2,3]
There are two things that proceed from the Lord as the sun of heaven,
namely, Divine good and Divine truth.

. . . Divine good judges no one, but Divine truth judges . . ..

. . . in respect to judgment, the case is this:
The Lord is present with all,
and from Divine Love He wills to save all,
and He turns and leads all towards Himself.
Those who are in good and in truths therefrom follow,
for they apply themselves,
but those who are in evil and in falsities therefrom do not follow,
but turn backwards from the Lord . . ..

These . . . are truths that do not fall into a person's self-intelligence,
for they are among the arcana of the wisdom of angels.

AE 295 - the Lord's good pleasure

AE 295 [4,12]
The Lord's will in the Old Testament is called His "good pleasure,"
and this likewise means the Divine love;
and to do His good pleasure or His will
signifies to love God and the neighbor,
thus to live according to the commandments of the Lord . . ..
For no one can love the Lord and the neighbor except from the Lord;
for this is the veriest good for a person,
and all good is from the Lord.

Moreover, in the Hebrew expression "good pleasure" also means will;
for whatever is done according to the will is well pleasing,
and the Divine love wills nothing else
than that love from itself may be with angels and people,
and His love is with them
when they love to live according to His commandments.

AE 290, 292 - memory

AE 290
. . . the memory is merely the entrance to a person,
and like a court by which entrance is made . . .

AE 292
Truths from the Word with angels and people are in their memory;
from it the Lord calls them out and conjoins them with good
so far as the angel or person is in the spiritual affection of truth,
and this affection he has
when he lives according to the truths from the Word.

AE 283 - within & without

AE 283
Celestial good is good in essence,
and spiritual good is good in form;
and this for the reason that the will,
in which good resides,
is the person himself, or the person in essence;
while the understanding in which is truth,
which is the form of good,
is the person thence derived, thus the person in form;
this good also is round about the other.

[2] . . . that which is above is also within,
and that which is below is also without,
and what is without is round about.
This is why in the Word
higher things, and things in the midst, signify things interior;
and lower things, and things round about, signify things exterior.

AE 281 - "eagle" signifies intelligence

AE 281
[6] . . . the understanding of truth and good, which is intelligence . . .

[8] . . . nothing but falsities can come from self-intelligence . . .

[9] False intelligence is from what is a person's own (proprium),
but true intelligence is from the Lord through the Word.

AE 280 - What distinguishes intelligence from wisdom?

AE 280 [3]
Intelligence is distinguished from wisdom by this,
that intelligence is the understanding of truth
such as the spiritual person has,
and wisdom is the understanding of truth
such as the celestial person has,
whose understanding is from the will of good.

AE 279 - idols

AE 279 [9]
. . . "idols" signify worship from doctrine that is from self-intelligence . . .

AE 276 - the Lord's Power, Protection & Providence

AE 276
And in the midst of the throne and around the throne were four animals,
full of eyes before and behind.
And the first animal was like a lion,
and the second animal like a calf,
and the third animal had a face like a man,
and the fourth animal was like a flying eagle.
And the four animals, each by itself, had six wings round about,
and they were full of eyes within,
and they had no rest day and night, saying,
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty,
who was, and who is, and who is to come.
(Revelation 4:6-8)

"And in the midst of the throne and around the throne were four animals,
full of eyes before and behind,"
signifies the Lord's guard and providence
that the interior heavens be not approached
except by the good of love and charity,
that lower things depending thereon may be in order.
"And the first animal was like a lion,"
signifies the appearance, in ultimates
of Divine truth proceeding from the Lord
in respect to power and efficiency;
"and the second animal like a calf,"
signifies the appearance, in ultimates,
of Divine good in respect to protection;
"and the third animal had a face like a man,"
signifies the appearance, in ultimates,
of the Divine guard and providence in respect to wisdom;
"and the fourth animal was like a flying eagle,"
signifies the appearance, in ultimates,
of the Divine guard and providence in respect to intelligence
and as to circumspection on every side.
"And the four animals, each by itself, had six wings round about,"
signifies the appearance of the spiritual Divine
on all sides about the celestial Divine;
"and full of eyes within,"
signifies the Divine Providence and guard;
"and they had no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy,"
signifies that which is most holy proceeding from the Lord;
"Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come,"
signifies the infinite and eternal.

AE 275 - knowledges and truths

AE 275 [7]
By My rebuke I dry up the sea,
I make the rivers a wilderness;
their fish shall become putrid
because there is no water, and shall die of thirst.
(Isaiah 1:2)
"To dry up the sea" signifies
an entire lack of the general knowledges of truth;
"to make the rivers a wilderness" signifies
the deprivation of all truth and of intelligence therefrom;
"the fish shall become putrid" signifies
that the knowledges [scientifica] pertaining to the natural person
shall be without any spiritual life;
this takes place when they are applied to confirm falsities
in opposition to the truths of the church;
"by cause there is no water" signifies because there is no truth;
"to die of thirst" signifies the extinction of truth.

[13]
Knowledges and truths differ in this,
that knowledges are of the natural person,
and truths of the spiritual person.

[20]
In that day living waters shall go out from Jerusalem;
part of them to the eastern sea,
and part of them to the hinder sea.
(Zechariah 14:8)
"Living waters from Jerusalem" signify
truths from a spiritual origin in the church,
which are the truths that are received by a person
when he is illustrated by the Lord while he is reading the Word.

AE 274 - a Lamp

AE 274 [2]

Thy Word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.
(Psalm 119:105)

The Word is called a "lamp" because it is Divine truth.
In the same:

You make my lamp to shine;
Jehovah God makes bright my darkness.
(Psalm 18:28)

"To make a lamp to shine"
signifies to enlighten the understanding by Divine truth;
and "to make bright the darkness"
signifies to disperse the falsities of ignorance by the light of truth.

AE 272 - portion of Psalm 89

AE 272 [3]
You show anger with Your anointed.
You have condemned even to the earth his crown.
(Psalms 89:38-39)

Here also "anointed" stands for the Lord,
and "anger" for a state of temptation,
in which He was when in combats with the hells.
"Anger" and "condemnation" describe the lamentation at that time,
as the Lord's last lamentation on the cross, that He was forsaken;
for the cross was the last of His temptations or combats with the hells;
and after that last temptation He put on
the Divine good of the Divine love,
and thus united the Divine Human to the Divine Itself which was in Him.

[2]
. . . "crown" the Divine good from which is Divine wisdom,
and from which is the Lord's government . . .

AE 261 - "voice"

AE 261
. . . "the voice of Jehovah" in the Word
signifies the Divine proceeding
which is Divine truth,
from which is all intelligence and wisdom.

. . . This flows in with those who are in the good of charity,
and gives them intelligence,
and so far as they are in good
gives them wisdom;
intelligence is of truth,
and wisdom is of the truth from good.

AE 253, 254 - overcoming

AE 253
He that overcomes,
I will give to him to sit with Me in My throne,
(Revelation 3:21)
signifies that he who is steadfast to the end of life
shall be conjoined with heaven where the Lord is.
This is evident from the signification of "overcoming,"
as being to be steadfast in the spiritual affection of truth
even to the end of life;
but here it means to be steadfast in a state of faith from charity,
since charity is here treated of.
This is what "overcoming" means;
because so long as a person lives in the world
he is in combat against the evils and the falsities therefrom that are with him;
and he who is in combat,
and is steadfast in the faith of charity even to the end of life, overcomes;
and he who overcomes in the world overcomes to eternity,
since a person after death is such as his life had been in the world.
This is evident also from the signification of "to sit with Me in My throne,"
as being to be conjoined with heaven where the Lord is;
for "throne" signifies heaven,
and to "sit with Me" signifies to be together with the Lord,
thus conjoined to Him.

AE 254
As I also have overcome,
and sit with My Father in His throne,
(Revelation 3:21)
signifies comparatively as Divine good is united to Divine truth in heaven.
This is evident from the signification of "overcoming,"
as being in reference to the Lord Himself,
to unite Divine good to Divine truth.
Because this was effected through temptations and victories,
it is said, "as I also have overcome."
"To sit with My Father in His throne"
signifies Divine good united to Divine truth in heaven,
because "Father," when said by the Lord,
means the Divine good that was in Him from conception,
and "Son" the Divine truth,
both in heaven, "throne" meaning heaven.
This Divine of the Lord in the heavens is called Divine truth,
but it is Divine good united to Divine truth.

AE 252 - heaven, angels, and the church

AE 252 [2]
. . . heaven is the conjunction of angels with the Lord by love,
and their consociation among themselves by charity,
and the consequent communication of all delights and felicities;
the like is true of the church,
since the church is the Lord's heaven on the earth.

AE 250 - "And open the door" (Revelation 3:20)

AE 250
And open the door, signifies reception in the heart or the life.

[2] It shall moreover be explained what is meant by "opening the door,"
when this is said to be done by a person, as here.
The Lord is always present with good and truth in a person,
and strives to open his spiritual mind;
this is the door which the Lord wishes to open,
and to endow a person with heavenly love and faith;
for He says, "I stand at the door and knock."
But of this endeavor or this perpetual desire of the Lord
a person has no perception;
for he supposes that he does good from himself,
and that this endeavor or this wish is in himself.
It is sufficient then for a person to acknowledge
from the doctrine of the church
that all good is from God, and nothing thereof from the person.
This is not perceived by the person,
in order that there may be reception by the person,
and by reception appropriation,
for otherwise a person cannot be reformed.


If you want to read portions of AE 248 (Behold I stand at the door and knock)
& AE 249 (If anyone hear my voice):

http://hd-quotes.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_archive.html

AE 244 - two filthy loves and two pure loves

AE 244
For a person is born into two loves,
which are the love of self and the love of the world,
therefore by heredity
he derives the inclination to love self and the world above all things;
these loves are filthy loves, because out of them all evils flow,
namely, contempt of others in comparison with oneself,
enmity against those who do not favor oneself,
hatred, revenge, craftiness, and deceits of every kind.
These loves with their evils cannot be removed except by the two loves,
which are the love to the Lord and the love towards the neighbor;
from these a person inclines to love the Lord above all things,
and the neighbor as himself.
These two loves are pure loves,
since they are out of heaven from the Lord.
Moreover, from these all goods flow;
so far, therefore, as a person is in these,
so far the filthy loves into which he is born are removed,
even until they do not appear;
and they are removed by the Lord by means of truths.

AE 242 - thinking

AE 242 [5]
. . . to think apart from the affection is impossible,
for the very essence of thought is affection or love.
A person is able, to be sure, to think all things
that he knows from the doctrine of the church,
but only from natural affection,
which is the affection or love of glory, fame, honor or gain;
but such an affection does not make thought to be spiritual;
this requires charity,
which is spiritual affection itself.
When this is conjoined with knowledges
there is faith,
and then so far as a person is in that affection
he sees in thought the things that are of his faith,
which are called truths,
and acknowledges them, because they are from his very spirit,
thus from his very spiritual life.

AE 240 - the understanding of truth & the understanding of good and the will of truth & the will of good

AE 240 [2]
There is the understanding of truth, and the understanding of good;
the understanding of truth
is the understanding of such things as are of faith,
and the understanding of good
is the understanding of such things as are of love and charity.
There is also the will of truth and the will of good;
the will of truth is with those who are of the Lord's spiritual kingdom;
but the will of good with those who are of His celestial kingdom.
The latter, because they are in love to the Lord, and from this in mutual love,
which is to them charity towards the neighbor,
have truths inscribed on their hearts, and consequently do them;
and what proceeds out of the heart is out of the will of good,
"heart" meaning the will of good.
But those who are in love towards the neighbor, which love is charity,
have truths inscribed not on their hearts but on the memory,
and therefore on the intellectual mind,
and what proceeds therefrom out of the affection is the will of truth.
Thus it is that spiritual angels are distinguished from celestial angels.
The latter appear naked in heaven, but the former clothed.
Celestial angels appear naked
because they have no need of the memory to retain truths,
nor of understanding therefrom to comprehend them,
because they have them inscribed on the heart,
that is, on the love and will, and consequently see them.
But spiritual angels appear clothed
because they have truths inscribed on the memory
and consequently on the understanding,
and truths of the memory and of the understanding therefrom
correspond to garments;
they therefore all appear clothed according to their intelligence.

AE 237 - from the Lord

AE 237 [8]
. . . as faith with its truths are from the Lord,
and thus not meritorious,
so are charity with its goods.

AE 235 - What does the Lord tell us a thousand times?

AE 235 [2]
. . . what is more frequently declared by the Lord,
than that they ought to do His words, His commandments, His will,
and that every one shall be recompensed according to his deeds;
also that the whole Word is based upon two commandments,
which are to love God,
and to love the neighbor;
also that loving God is doing His commandments?

What people must do in order to be saved
is said a thousand times in each Testament,
also that hearing and knowing are nothing without doing.