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 7} In the Word “stars” signify knowledges of good and
  truth (n. 2495, 2849,4697).

  {Footnote 8} “Tribes” signify all truths and goods in the
  complex, thus all things of faith and love (n. 3858, 3926,
  4060, 6335).

  {Footnote 9} The coming of the Lord signifies His presence in
  the Word, and revelation (n 3900,4060).

  {Footnote 10} In the Word clouds signify the Word in the letter
  or the sense of its letter (n. 4060, 4391, 5922, 6343, 6752,
  8106, 8781, 9430, 10551, 10574).

  {Footnote 11} In the Word “glory” signifies Divine truth as it
  is in heaven and as it is in the internal sense of the Word (n.
  4809, 5922, 8267, 8427, 9429, 10574).

  {Footnote 12} A “trumpet” or “horn” signifies Divine truth in
  heaven, and revealed from heaven (n. 8158, 8823, 8915); and
  “voice” has a like signification (n. 6771, 9926).

2.  I. The god of heaven is the lord

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.  Throughout all heaven no other than the Lord alone is acknowledged as the God of heaven.  There it is said, as He Himself taught,

That He is one with the Father; that the Father is in Him, and He in the Father; that he who sees Him sees the Father; and that everything that is holy goes forth from Him (John 10:30, 35; 14:9-11; 16:13-15).

I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord.  They also said that those of the church who come from this world having an idea of three Divine beings cannot be admitted into heaven, since their thought wanders from one Divine being to another; and it is not allowable there to think three and say one.{1} Because in heaven everyone speaks from his thought, since speech there is the immediate product of the thought, or the thought speaking.  Consequently, those in this world who have divided the Divine into three, and have adopted a different idea of each, and have not made that idea one and centered it in the Lord, cannot be received into heaven, because in heaven there is a sharing of all thoughts, and therefore if any one came thinking three and saying one, he would be at once found out and rejected.  But let it be known that all those who have not separated what is true from what is good, or faith from love, accept in the other life, when they have been taught, the heavenly idea of the Lord, that He is the God of the universe.  It is otherwise with those who have separated faith from life, that is, who have not lived according to the precepts of true faith.

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