AE 907 - Divine Truth

AE 907 [4]
For the real truth is,
that the Divine truth never fights against falsity from evil,
but falsity fights against truth;
and thus heaven does not fight against hell,
but hell against heaven.

AE 902 - the commandments in the Word

AE 902
Spiritual life is acquired solely by a life
according to the commandments in the Word.
These commandments are given in a summary in the Decalogue, namely,
Thou shalt not commit adultery,
Thou shalt not steal,
Thou shalt not kill,
Thou shalt not bear false witness,
Thou shalt not covet the goods of others.
These commandments are the commandments that are to be done,
for when a man does these his works are good and his life becomes spiritual,
because so far as a man shuns evils and hates them,
so far he wills and loves goods.

AE 902 [6]
... for to do these commandments from religion purifies the internal man,
opens heaven,
admits the Lord,
and makes man as to his spirit an angel of heaven.
And this is why the nations outside the church
who do these commandments from religion are all saved,
but not any one who does them merely from civil and moral law.

AE 898 - Write

AE 898
Write, signifies certainty....
"To write" signifies certainty because writing is the ultimate act of thought and of speech therefrom, and thus it means what is certain, because what is terminated. This may be compared with all things that a man wills, thinks, and speaks therefrom, and does not terminate by doing them; such things are not yet in man's life, for the ultimate in which prior things exist together is lacking.

AE 888 [3] - the Word communicates & conjunctions

AE 888 [3]
How infernal and thus how injurious it is to falsify the Word
even to the destruction of the Divine truth and the Divine good in the heavens
can be seen from the fact
that all things of the sense of the letter of the Word,
which are Divine truths for the natural man,
communicate through the spiritual sense with the angels of heaven,
to the extent that men and the angels of heaven are conjoined
by means of the Word;
consequently the sense of the letter of the Word,
with the man who falsifies it,
is perceived in heaven in a two-fold manner,
namely as genuine truth from the sense of the letter
according to correspondences,
and as destroyed according to falsifications.
From this it comes that truth and falsity are presented together as conjoined,
from which the angels of heaven are exasperated,
and turn themselves entirely away.

AE 887 - falsifying the Word

AE 887
...those who falsify the Word are spiritually drunken, that is,
are in a state of delirium in respect to truths...

AE 874 - "Fear God and give glory to Him"

AE 874
Fear God and give glory to Him (Rev. 16:7),
signifies to worship the Lord from His Divine truth
by a life according to it.

AE 866 - all who are in the Lord

AE 866
For the Lord is Divine truth united to Divine good;
and all who are in the Lord,
who are those who acknowledge His Divine Human
and do His commandments,
are in the Divine truth and in the Divine good...

AE 864 - to follow the Lord

AE 864
"To follow the Lord" has a similar signification as "to go or to walk after Him."
That "to go or walk after the Lord,"
signifies to acknowledge, to obey,
and to act and live from Him and with Him....
For the Lord so operates with man that man may follow Him as if of himself;
thus does the Lord flow into man's freedom;
and this He does for the sake of the reception and implantation
of truth and good with man and consequent reformation and regeneration.

AE 863a - spiritual affections of truth

AE 863a
...spiritual affections of truth...are such as have for their end eternal life and the uses of that life. Those who are in such affections love truths because they are truths, thus apart from the world's glory, honors, and gains; and those who love truths apart from such considerations love the Lord; for the Lord is with man in the truths that are from good.

AE 852a - foreheads and eyes

AE 852a
Having the name of His Father written on their foreheads,
... means the full acknowledgment of the Divine of the Lord,
because the Lord turns towards Himself all who acknowledge His Divine,
and looks at them in the forehead,
while they look at the Lord with the eyes;
and this for the reason that the "forehead" signifies love,
and the "eye" the understanding of truth;
therefore to be looked at by the Lord in the forehead
signifies to be looked at by the Lord from the good of love;
and on the other hand their looking at the Lord with the eyes
signifies to look from truths from that good,
consequently from the understanding of truth.

AE 850a - the presence of the Lord

AE 850a
The presence of the Lord is perpetual in the whole heaven
and in the whole church;
for heaven is not heaven from what is the angels' own,
nor is the church a church from what is men's own,
but from the Divine of the Lord with them.

... it is a presence that is peaceful, tranquil, preserving, and sustaining,
by which all things in the heavens and on the earth
are held constantly in their order and connection....

AE 847 - every religion

AE 847 [3]
... every religion has life as its end;
for it teaches the evils that must be shunned,
and the goods that are to be done.

AE 840 - the treasure hidden in a field

AE 840 [10]
The treasure hidden in a field,
which a man having found hid,
and for joy he went and sold all things
whatsoever that he had
and bought the field. (Matthew 13:44)

The "treasure" signifies the Divine truth that is in the Word;
and the "field" signifies the church and its doctrine;
and "to sell all things whatsoever that he had and buy the field"
signifies to set aside what is one's own
and to acquire for oneself the Divine truth that is in the Lord's church.

AE 834 - doing for the neighbor

AE 834
... while every man is a neighbor, every man is a neighbor from his quality,
and consequently that it is the quality of a man from which he is a man
that is meant in the spiritual sense by "neighbor;"
for otherwise a bad man would be as much a neighbor as a good man;
and yet to do good to the evil is sometimes doing evil to the good.

AE 832 - spiritual truths & understanding in the world

AE 832 [4]
... he who loves truth from truth, that is, because it is truth, can see spiritual truths; and those which he does not see in the world he sees afterwards in heaven. For it is the love itself of truth that receives the light of heaven, which enlightens the understanding.

AE 832 - spiritual angels & their heaven

AE 832 [4]
... spiritual angels admit no truth into the memory and from that into the understandingwith themsleves unless they see it; for the angels in that heaven see truths from the light of truth, thus by enlightenment from the Lord...

AE 826 & 828 - the celestial angels & their heaven

AE 826 [2]

... with them all truths are written on their affections, and these derive their essence from celestial love, which is love to the Lord.

AE 825 - the laws of our religion & the leading of the Lord

AE 825 [3]
The lawns of our religion are that one God is to be worshiped;
that adulteries, thefts, murders, false witness, must be shunned;
thus also frauds, unlawful gains, hatreds, revenge, lies, blasphemies,
and many other things that are mentioned not alone in the Decalogue
but everywhere else in the Word,
and are called sins against God and also abominations.
When man shuns these because they are opposed to the Word,
and so opposed to God,
and because they are from hell,
then man lives according to the laws of his religion,
and so far as he lives according to his religion he is led by the Lord;
for so far as he is led by the Lord and his works good;
he is then led to do goods and to speak truths
for the sake of goods and the sake of truths,
and not for the sake of self and the world;
uses are his enjoyments, and truths his delight.
Moreover, he is daily taught by the Lord
what he must do and what he must say,
also what he must preach or what he must write;
for when evils are removed he is continually under
the Lord's guidance and in enlightenment.
Yet he is not led and taught immediately by any dictate,
or by any perceptible inspiration,
but by an influx into his spiritual delight,
from which he has perception according to the truths
of which his understanding consists.
When he acts from this influx,
he appears to be acting as if from himself,
and yet he acknowledges in heart that it is from the Lord.

AE 821d - thunder and celestial good

AE 821d [4]
... in the spiritual world thunders are also heard,
and these are produced by truths that are from celestial good
when these are descending from the higher heavens into the lower....

Celestial good is the same thing as the good of love in will and in act.

AE 819 & AE 820a - goods of love & good in truth

AE 819 [3] (2)
... goods that are of life are what gives life to faith, and make it spiritual.
For love is the very soul of faith, and love is doing,
for a what a man loves he wills, and what he wills he does.

And this the Lord teaches in John 14:21, 24:

He that has My commandments and does them,
he it is that loves Me;
but he that loves Me not, does not keep My words.

AE 820a [4]
Moreover, as soon as good is implanted in truths with man
he is conjoined with the angels....