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The twelve gates were twelve pearls:
each gate was of one pearl.
(Revelation 21:21)
. . . The twelve gates symbolize in sum
the concepts of truth and goodness
by which a person is introduced into the church.
Twelve pearls also symbolize in sum
concepts of truth and goodness.
That is why the gates were pearls.
Each gate was of one pearl
because all the concepts of truth and goodness
symbolized by the gates and by pearls
relate to a single concept,
one that is their containing vessel,
and that single concept is a concept of the Lord.
We say, a single concept,
even though there are many
that make up that single concept,
for a concept of the Lord
pervades all other doctrinal concepts,
and so all concerns having to do with the church.
All matters of worship
take their life and soul from that concept,
for the Lord is everything
in the whole of heaven and the church,
and so in the whole of worship.
An acknowledgment and
concept of the Lord
join all the concepts
of truth and goodness in the Word into one
because all spiritual truths are connected,
and if you would believe it,
their connection is like
the connection between all the members,
viscera and organs of the human body.
Consequently, as the soul holds everything together
in their organization and connection,
so that they are sensed only as a unit,
so the Lord holds together
all the spiritual truths that a person possesses.
. . . The one precious pearl
is an acknowledgment and concept of the Lord.
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