ISBN: 9781154988079

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...because the law was there, and the law means the Lord in relation to Divine truth or the Word, for this in a broad sense is what that law signifies, and it is Divine truth going forth from the Lord that forms the heavens. This is received in the greatest purity by the angels of the third heaven, because they are in a conjunction with the Lord through love to Him, since all angels in that heaven are in love to the Lord; consequently they see Divine truth in themselves, like something implanted, and yet it flows in continually from the Lord. For this. reason that heaven more than the other heavens that are below it, is said to be in the Lord, because it is in the Divine that goes forth from Him. 3. It was that heaven that was represented by the ark that contained the law, that is, the Lord. This is why the ark was overlaid with gold within and without, and the mercyseat was over the ark, and over the mercy-seat and out of it were the two cherubim which were of pure gold; for gold signifies from correspondence the good of love, in which are the angels of the third heaven. The mercy-seat signified the hearing and reception of all things of the worship that is from good of love from the Lord; and the cherubimsignified the Lord''s providence and guard that He be not approached except through good of love. That heaven with its angels is a guard against anything being raised up to the Lord Himself except what proceeds from good of love to Him and from Him. All worship of God passes through the heavens even to the Lord, and is purified in the way, until it is lifted up to the third heaven, and there it reaches the Lord and is received by Him; everything else, being impure, is removed on the way. This... Emanuel Swedenborg, Books, History, The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense, in Which the Arcana Therein Predicted But Heretofore Concealed Are Reve Books>History, General Books LLC<