Heaven and its Wonders and Hell eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 590 pages of information about Heaven and its Wonders and Hell.

Heaven and its Wonders and Hell eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 590 pages of information about Heaven and its Wonders and Hell.
{Footnote 1} The Lord is seen in heaven as a sun, and is the sun of heaven (n. 1053, 3636, 3643, 4060).  The Lord is seen as a sun by those who are in His celestial kingdom, where love to Him reigns, and as a moon by those who are in His spiritual kingdom, where charity to the neighbor and faith reign (n. 1521, 1529-1531, 1837, 4696).  The Lord is seen as a sun at a middle height before the right eye, and an a moon before the left eye (n. 1053, 1521, 1529-1531, 3636, 3643, 4321, 5097, 7078, 7083, 7173, 7270, 8812, 10809).  The Lord is seen as a sun and as a moon (n. 1531, 7173).  The Lord’s Divine Itself is far above His Divine in heaven (n. 7270, 8760).
{Footnote 2} “Fire” in the Word signifies love, both in a good sense and in a bad sense (n. 934, 4906, 5215).  Holy or heavenly fire signifies the Divine Love (n. 934, 6314, 6832).  Infernal fire signifies love of self and of the world and every lust of those loves (n. 1861, 5071, 6314, 6832, 7575, 10747).  Love is the fire of life and life itself is really from it (n. 4906, 5071, 6032, 6314).  “Light” signifies the truth of faith (n. 3195, 3485, 3636, 3643, 3993, 4302, 4413, 4415, 9548, 9684).

  {Footnote 3} The sight of the left eye corresponds to truths of
  faith, and the sight of the right eye to their goods (n. 4410,
  6923).

  {Footnote 4} The things on man’s right have relation to good
  from which is truth, and those on his left to truth from good
  (n. 9495, 9604).

119.  This is why in the Word the Lord in respect to love is likened to the sun, and in respect to faith to the moon; also that the “sun” signifies love from the Lord to the Lord, and the “moon” signifies faith from the Lord in the Lord, as in the following passages: 

     The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun,
     and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light
     of seven days (Isa. 30:26).

And when I shall extinguish thee I will cover the heavens and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not make her light to shine.  All luminaries of light in the heavens will I make dark over thee, and I will set darkness upon thy land (Ezek. 32:7, 8).

     I will darken the sun in his going forth, and the moon
     shall not make her light to shine (Isa. 13:10)

     The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars
     shall withdraw their shining.  The sun shall be turned into
     darkness and the moon into blood (Joel 2:2, 10, 31; 3:16).

     The sun became black as sackcloth and hair, and the moon
     became as blood, and the stars fell unto the earth (Apoc.
     6:12, 13).

     Immediately after the affliction of those days the sun
     shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
     and the stars shall fall from heaven (Matt. 24:29).

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