14. 'And from the seven spirits who are before the throne' signifies from the entire heaven, where the Lord is in His Divine Truth, and His Divine Truth is received. By 'the seven spirits' are understood all who are in Divine Truth, and in an abstract sense Divine Truth (Verum) or the Truth (Veritas) itself. That by 'seven' all people and all things are understood, may be seen above (n. 10), and that by 'throne' is understood the entire heaven will be seen presently. Consequently by 'before the throne' is understood where His Divine Truth is; for heaven is not heaven out of the propria of the angels, but out of the Divine of the Lord, as has been shown in many [places] in ANGELIC WISDOM CONCERNING THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE, and CONCERNING THE DIVINE LOVE. That the Lord's throne signifies heaven, is plain from the following passages:-
Thus says Jehovah, The heavens [are] My throne Isa. lxvi 1.
Jehovah in the heavens has strengthened His throne Ps. ciii 19.
He who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him Who sits thereon Matt. xxiii 22.
Above the expanse that was over the head of the cherubs, as it were the appearance of a sapphire stone, the likeness of a throne, and upon it the appearance of a Man Ezek. i 26; x 1.
By 'the expanse over the head of the cherubs' is understood heaven. Also in the Apocalypse:-
He Who overcomes, I will give him to sit in My throne Rev. iii 21
'In [My] throne' is in heaven, specifically where His Divine Truth reigns. Likewise therefore where the judgment is treated of it is stated that the Lord is going to be seated upon a throne, for the judgment is effected by means of truths.
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