AE 500, 502, 503 - The Trumpets Sound and Divine Influx Flows

 AE 500

And the seven angels having the seven trumpets
prepared themselves to sound,
(Revelation 8:6)
means changes in their order
to arise from the influx out of heaven.

AE 502 [1-2, 7]

"To sound a trumpet"
means the influx of Divine truth out of heaven,
because when Divine truth flows down out of heaven
it is sometimes heard in the spiritual world
as the sound of a horn or as the blast of a trumpet,
and also to those who stand below there
appear as it were angels having trumpets;
but these are representations and appearances,
such as exist below the heavens,
for it is Divine truth descending
or flowing down out of heaven
towards the lower parts that is thus represented.
This is why "to sound a trumpet"
means the flowing down of Divine truth out of heaven.

When this flowing down is strong
it produces one effect with the good
and another with the evil.
With the good it illustrates the understanding,
joins them more closely with heaven,
and thence gladdens and vivifies their minds;
but with the evil it disturbs the understanding,
separates them from heaven,
joins them more closely with hell,
induces terror in their minds,
and finally brings spiritual death.
This makes clear that "sounding a trumpet" means,
in its effect,
the revelation and manifestation of Divine truth;
and in the contrary sense
the deprivation of truth and desolation.

Because Divine truth coming down
from the Lord through the heavens
makes the hearts glad and infuses the holiness of worship,
and therefore trumpets were sounded
on days of gladness and at the feasts,

AE 503 [7]

 . . . when Jehovah, that is, the Lord,
renders the influx powerful,
it is not that He may destroy the evil
but that He may rescue and protect the good,
for He thus conjoins the good to Himself
more closely and interiorly,
and thus they are separated from the evil,
and the evil perish;
for if the evil were not separated
the good would perish
and the angelic heaven would fall to ruin.