of Divine truth from the Lord (n. 9639).  Angels are recipients of Divine truth from the Lord and therefore in the Word are sometimes called gods (n. 4295, 4402, 7873, 8192, 8301).

{Footnote 3} The understanding is a recipient of truth, and the will a recipient of good (n. 3623, 6125, 7503, 9300, 9930).  Therefore all things in the understanding have relation to truths, whether they are really truths or are believed by man to be truths, and all things in the will in like manner have relation to goods (n. 803, 10122).

  {Footnote 4} Divine truth going forth from the Lord is the only
  real thing (n. 6880, 7004, 8200).  By means of Divine truth all
  things were created and made (n. 2803, 2884, 5272, 7678).

139.{1} It must be understood that the Divine good and the Divine truth that are from the Lord as a sun in the heavens are not in the Lord, but are from the Lord.  In the Lord there is only Divine love, which is the Being [Esse] from which the Divine good and the Divine truth spring.  Outgo [existere] from being [esse] is meant by going forth [procedere].  This, too, can be made clear by comparison with the world’s sun.  The heat and light that are in the world are not in the sun, but are from the sun.  In the sun there is fire only, and it is from this that heat and light spring and go forth.

  {Footnote 1} [There is no n. 138 in the original. —­ Editor.]

140.  Since the Lord as a sun is Divine love, and Divine love is Divine good itself, the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, which is His Divine in heaven, is called, for the sake of distinction, Divine truth, although it is in fact Divine good united to Divine truth.  This Divine truth is what is called the Holy that goes forth from Him.

141.  XVI.  The four quarters in heaven.

Both in heaven and in the world there are four quarters, east, south, west, and north, determined in each world by its own sun; in heaven by the sun of heaven, which is the Lord, in the world by the sun of the world.  And yet there are great differences between them.  In the first place, in the world that is called the south where the sun is in its greatest altitude above the earth, north where it is in its opposite position beneath the earth, east where it rises at an equinox, and west where it then sets.  Thus in the world it is from the south that all the quarters are determined.  But in heaven that is called the east where the Lord is seen as a sun, opposite to this is the west, at the right is the south in heaven, and at the left the north; and this in whatever direction the face and the body are turned.  Thus in heaven it is from the east that all the quarters are determined.  That is called the east [oriens] where the Lord is seen as a sun, because all origin [origo] of life is from Him as a sun; moreover, so far as angels receive heat and light or love and intelligence from the Lord He is said to arise [exoriri] upon them.  For the same reason the Lord is called the East [Oriens] in the Word.{1}