{Footnote 1} “Houses,” with their contents, signify the things in man that belong to his mind, thus his interiors (n. 710, 2233, 2331, 2559, 3128, 3538, 4973, 5023, 6639, 6690, 7353, 7848, 7910, 7929, 9150); consequently the things relating to good and truth (n. 2233, 2331, 2559, 4982, 7848, 7929).  “Rooms” and “bed-chambers” signify interior things there (n. 3900, 5694, 7353).  The “roof of a house” signifies what is inmost (n. 3652, 10184).  A “house of wood” signifies what relates to good, and a “house of stone” what relates to truth (n. 3720).

{Footnote 2} A “garden” or “park” signifies intelligence and wisdom (n. 100, 108, 3220).  What is meant by “the garden of Eden” and “the garden of Jehovah” (n. 99, 100, 1588).  How magnificent the things seen in parks are in the other life (n. 1122, 1622, 2296, 4528, 4529).  “Trees” signify perceptions and knowledges, from which wisdom and intelligence are derived (n. 103, 2163, 2682, 2722, 2972, 7692).  “Fruits” signify goods of love and goods of charity (n. 3146, 7690, 9337).

187.  This makes clear why the Lord called Himself the temple at Jerusalem (John 2:19, 21),{1} namely, because the temple represented His Divine Human; also why the New Jerusalem was seen to be of pure gold, its gates of pearls, and its foundations of precious stones (Apoc. 21), namely, because the New Jerusalem signifies the church which was afterwards to be established, the twelve gates its truths leading to good, and the foundations the truths on which the church is founded.{2}

{Footnote 1} In the highest sense “the house of God” signifies the Lord’s Divine Human in respect to Divine good, and “the temple” the same in respect to Divine truth; and in a relative sense, heaven and the church in respect to good and truth (n. 3720).

{Footnote 2} “Jerusalem” signifies the church in which is genuine doctrine (n. 402, 3654, 9166).  “Gates” signify introduction to the doctrine of the church, and through doctrine introduction into the church (n. 2943, 4477, 4478).  “Foundation” signifies the truth on which heaven, the church, and doctrine are founded (n. 9643).

188.  The angels of whom the Lord’s celestial kingdom consists dwell for the most part in elevated places that appear as mountains of soil; the angels of whom the Lord’s spiritual kingdom consists dwell in less elevated places that appear like hills; while the angels in the lowest parts of heaven dwell in places that appear like ledges of stone.  These things spring from correspondence, for interior things correspond to higher things, and exterior things to lower things;{1} and this is why in the Word “mountains” signify celestial love, “hills” spiritual love, and “rocks” faith.{2}