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.