Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 49

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49. The Light of heaven, in which, the spiritual man is. There is a great light it in the heavens, nos. 1117, 1521, 1533, 1619-1632. Light in the heavens exceeds, by many degrees, noon-day light on earth, nos. 1117, 1521, 4527, 5400, 8644. This light was often seen by me, nos. 1522, 4527, 7174. The angels of the inmost or third heaven have a light, like that from the sun; but the angels of the second heaven like the light from the moon, nos. 1529, 1530. In the inmost heaven the light is flamy; but in the second heaven, shining white, no. 9570. All light in the heavens is from the Lord as a sun there, nos. 1053, 1521, 3195, 3341, 3636, 3643, 4415, 9548, 9684, 10809. The Lord is the sun of the angelic heaven, and that sun is His Divine Love, nos. 1521, 1529, 1530, 1531, 1837, 4321, 4696, 7078, 7083, 7173. The Divine Truth which proceeds from the Lord appears in the heavens as light, and causes all the light of heaven; and therefore that light is spiritual light, nos. 3195, 3222, 5400, 8644, 9399, 9548, 9684. This is why the Lord in the Word is called Light, no. 3195. Because that light is Divine Truth, therefore in that light there is Divine Wisdom and Intelligence, nos. 3195, 3485, 3636, 3643, 3993, 4302, 4413, 4415, 9548, 9684. How light from the Lord flows into the heavens; illustrated by the halos of light around the sun, no. 9407. The Lord is a sun for the heavens, and from Him all the light there comes as may be seen in the work on Heaven and Hell, nos. 116-125; and the light from that Sun is Divine Truth, and the heat from that Sun the Divine Good of the Divine Love, nos. 126-140. The light of heaven illuminates both the sight and the understanding of angels and spirits, nos. 2776, 3138. The light there is according to their understanding and wisdom, nos. 1524, 3339. Proofs from the Word, nos. 1329, 1530. There are as many differences of light in the heavens as there are angelic societies, no. 4414. Since there are perpetual varieties in the heavens as to good and truth, so also there are as to wisdom and intelligence, nos. 684, 690, 3241, 3744, 3745, 5598, 7236, 7833, 7836. Heaven being in light and heat signifies that it is in wisdom and love, nos. 3643, 9399, 9400. The light of heaven illuminates the understanding of man, nos. 1524, 3138, 3167, 4408, 6608, 8707, 9128, 9399, 10569. When a man is elevated above the Sensual, he comes into a milder lumen, and at length into heavenly light, nos. 6313, 6315, 9407. There is an elevation into the light of heaven when a man is raised into intelligence, no. 3190. How great the light which was perceived by me, when I was withdrawn from worldly ideas, nos. 1526, 6608. The sight of the internal man is in the light of heaven; and this is why man is able to think analytically and rationally, no. 1532. The light of heaven from the Lord is always present with man; but it flows in only so far as he is in truths from good, nos. 4060, 4214. That light is according to the truth from good, no. 3094. Truths shine in the spiritual world, no. 5219. Spiritual heat and spiritual light constitute the true life of man, no. 6032. The light of the world is for the external man, and the light of heaven for the internal, nos. 3223, 3224, 3337. The light of heaven flows into natural lumen, and the natural man is wise so far, as it receives that light, nos. 4302, 4408. There is a correspondence between those two lights, no. 3225. From the light of the world with man, which is called his natural lumen, the things which are in the light of heaven cannot be seen; but, conversely, no. 9577. Hence it is, that those who are only in the light of the world, which is called natural lumen, do not perceive those things which belong to the light of heaven, no. 3108. To those who are in falsities from evil the light of heaven is thick darkness, nos. 1783, 3337, 3413, 4060, 6907, 8197. The light of the world causes a reddish glimmer (rutilat) with the evil; and so far as it so gleams, so far the things which belong to the light of heaven are darkness to them, no. 6907. The light of the world does not appear to the angels, nos. 1521, 1783, 1880. All light in the heavens is from the Lord, and all shade is from the ignorance and the Self (proprium) of angels and spirits; from that source are the modifications and variegations of light and shade, which are the colours there, no. 3341. Concerning the variegations of light through the Urim and Thummin, no. 3862. The light of those who are in faith separate from charity is snowy, and like wintry light, nos. 3412, 3413. When light flows in from heaven, the above light is turned into mere darkness, no. 3412. Concerning the light of those who are in a persuasive faith, and in a life of evil, no. 4416. Of what quality the light appears with those who are in intelligence from Self (proprium), and of what quality it appears with those who are in intelligence from the Lord, no. 4419. There is light (lumen) in the hells, but it is fatuous, no. 1528, 3340, 4241, 4418, 4531. The lumen which is there, is as the lumen from a coal-fire, nos. 1528, 4418, 4531. Those who are in the hells in their own lumen appear to themselves as men, but in the light of heaven they appear as devils and monsters, nos. 4532, 4533,4674, 5057, 5058, 6605, 6626. Everything appears in the light of heaven in its true quality, no. 4674. The hells are said to be in gross darkness and in darkness, because they are in falsities from evil, nos. 3340, 4418, 4531. Darkness signifies falsities, and gross darkness the falsity of evil, nos. 1839, 1860, 7688, 7711.


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