AR 904 [2]
. . . the city Jerusalem does not mean a real city,
but the church.
Consequently everything said
about Jerusalem as a city
symbolizes such
things as have to do with the church,
and everything having to do with
the church is,
in itself, spiritual.
AR 905
The city was seen as square
because a square or quadrilateral form
symbolizes justice,
inasmuch as a triangle symbolizes rectitude,
all of
these being symbols on the lowest level,
which is the natural one.
AR 906 [1-2]
The length of a thing symbolizes goodness,
here the goodness of the
church,
for the same reason that breadth symbolizes truth.
The reason is
that the sweep of heaven from east to west
is meant by length,
and the
sweep of heaven from south to north
by breadth,
and angels who dwell
in
the eastern and western zones in heaven
are impelled by the goodness of
love,
while angels who dwell
in the southern and northern zones in
heaven
are impelled by truths of wisdom . . ..
It is the same with the church on earth,
for everyone
impelled
by the church's goods and truths from the Word
is associated
with angels in heaven,
and he dwells with them in the interiors of his
mind —
those impelled by the goodness of love
in the eastern and western
zones of heaven,
and those impelled by truths of wisdom
in the southern
and northern zones of heaven.
No one is aware of this, indeed,
but
everyone nevertheless
goes to his place after death.
AR 908
. . . the goodness of love
is everything in heaven and the church,
and exists in a person only from the Lord,
and why it flows in from the Lord
only in someone
who refrains from evils and their delights as sins.
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