AR 919
The city had no need
of the sun or of the moon to shine in it,
for the glory of God illuminated it,
and the Lamb is its lamp.
(Revelation 21:23)
The sun here symbolizes natural love
divorced from spiritual love, which
is self-love.
And the moon symbolizes a natural intelligence
and faith
divorced from
a spiritual intelligence and faith,
which is one's native
intelligence
and a self-made faith.
This is the love and the
intelligence and faith
symbolized by the sun and moon here,
which people
of the Lord's New Church
will have no need of
to light their sight.
. . . the sun symbolizes love for the Lord,
and in an opposite sense self-love . . ..
. . . the moon symbolizes intelligence from the Lord
and faith from Him . . ..
Thus the moon in an opposite sense
symbolizes one's native intelligence
and a self-made faith.
Since
the sun in an opposite sense
symbolizes self-love,
and the moon one's
native intelligence
and a self-made faith,
therefore it was an
abomination
to worship the sun, moon and stars . . ..
And the nations that are saved shall walk in its light.
(Revelation 21:24)
. . . The nations symbolize
people who live a good life,
and also people who live an evil life.
Here they symbolize people who live a good life
and believe in the
Lord,
because they are called nations that are saved.
To walk in light
means, symbolically,
to live in accordance with Divine truths
and to see
them inwardly in oneself
as the eye sees objects.
For the objects of
spiritual sight,
which are those of the inner intellect,
are spiritual
truths,
and people who possess that intellect
see them in a manner
analogous to the way
the eyes see natural objects.
The light here
symbolizes a perception of Divine truth
from an inner enlightenment in
those people
from the Lord,
and to walk symbolizes to live.
From this it is apparent
that to walk in the light of the New Jerusalem
symbolically means to perceive and see
Divine truths from an inner
enlightenment
and to live in accordance with them.
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