AR 398
The first angel sounded.
(Revelation 8:7)
To sound the trumpet means, symbolically,
to examine and expose.
AR 399
And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood.(Revelation 8:7)
Hail symbolizes falsity destroying goodness and truth.
Fire symbolizes hellish love.
And blood symbolizes the falsification of truth.
Say to those who plaster the unsuitable
that it will fall.
There will be flooding rain,
in which you, hailstones, shall fall.(Ezekiel 13:11)
To plaster the unsuitable is
To plaster the unsuitable is
to defend falsity so that it appears as true.
Consequently people who do this are called hailstones.
AR 400
And they were cast down to the earth,
and a third of the trees were burned up.
(Revelation 8:7)
To be burned up means, symbolically, to perish -
in this case
to perish by falsity springing from a hellish love . . .
A tree symbolizes a person.
And because a person is human by virtue
of the affection of his will
and the perception of his intellect,
these are also therefore symbolized by a tree.
AR 401
And all green grass was burned up.
(Revelation 8:7)
Green grass, in the Word, symbolizes
the goodness and truth of the church
or faith that is born first in the natural self.
. . . And because faith has life
owing to goodness and truth,
therefore "all green grass was burned up"
means, symbolically,
that every constituent of faith having life had perished.
Every constituent of faith having life perishes,
moreover, when there is no affection for goodness
or perception of truth . . ..
Grass has this symbolic meaning also
because of its correspondence.
Consequently, people who separate faith from charity,
not only in doctrine but in life,
in the spiritual world
live in a desert where there is no grass.
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