AE 72 - stars; AE 78 - self-life

AE 72 [2]
That "stars" signify the knowledges of good and truth,
thus goods and truths,
is from the appearance in the spiritual world;
for there the Lord appears as a sun,
and angels from afar off as stars.
Angels appear thus
from their reception of light from the Lord as a sun,
thus from their reception of Divine truth,
which is from the Lord,
for this is the light of heaven.

AE 78
. . . man's self-life is that into which he is born,
which is in itself nothing but evil,
for it is altogether inverted,
for it has regard to itself and the world only,
and therefore
turns itself back away from God and from heaven.
The life that is not man's self-life
is that into which he is led
when he is being regenerated by the Lord;
and when he comes into that life
he regards God and heaven in the first place,
and self and the world in the second.