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Footnotes: Sections 401-450

Footnotes

405-1 One thing consists of various things, and receives thereby its form and quality and perfection in accordance with the quality of the harmony and concurrence (n. 457, 3241, 8003).

There is an infinite variety and never any one thing the same as another (n. 7236, 9002).

It is the same in the heavens (n. 3744, 4005, 7236, 7833, 7836, 9002).

In consequence all the societies in the heavens and all the angels in a society are distinct from each other because they are in different goods and uses (n. 690, 3241, 3519, 3804, 3986, 4067, 4149, 4263, 7236, 7833).

The Lord’s Divine love arranges all into a heavenly form, and so conjoins them that they are as a single man (n. 457, 3986, 5598).

420-1 Those are the elect who are in a life of good and truth (n. 3755, 3900).

Election and reception into heaven are not from mercy, as that term is understood, but are in accordance with the life (n. 5057, 5058).

There is no mercy of the Lord apart from means, but only through means, that is, to those that live in accordance with His precepts; such the Lord from His mercy leads continually in the world, and afterwards to eternity (n. 8700, 10659).

420-2 By the “poor,” in the Word, those are meant who are spiritually poor, that is, who are ignorant of truth and yet wish to he taught (n. 9209, 9253, 10227).

Such are said to hunger and thirst, which is to desire knowledges of good and of truth, by which there is introduction into the church and into heaven (n. 4958, 10227).

445-1 In the Word “death” signifies resurrection, for when man dies his life still goes on (n. 3498, 3505, 4618, 4621, 6036, 6221).

446-1 The heart corresponds to the will, thus to the affection which belongs to the love, while the respiration of the lungs corresponds to the understanding, thus to the thought (n. 3888).

From this the “heart” in the Word signifies the will and love (n. 7542, 9050, 10336).

The “soul” signifies understanding, faith, and truth; therefore “from the soul and from the heart” signifies what is from the understanding, faith, and truth, and what is from the will, love, and good (n. 2930, 9050).

The correspondence of the heart and lungs with the Greatest Man, or heaven (n. 3883-3895).

446-2 The beating of the heart and the respiration of the lungs reign in the body throughout, and flow mutually into every part (n. 3887, 3889, 3890).

447-1 Love is the being [esse] of the life of man (n. 5002).

Love is spiritual heat, and therefore the very vital itself of man (n. 1589, 2146, 3338, 4906, 7081-7086, 9954, 10740).

Affection is a continuation of love (n. 3938).

449-1 The heart corresponds to the Lord’s celestial kingdom, the lungs to His spiritual kingdom (n. 3635, 3886, 3887).