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Footnotes: Sections 501-550

Footnotes

513-1 Vastations are effected in the other life, that is, those that pass into the other life from the world are vastated (n. 698, 7122, 7474, 9763).

The well disposed are vastated in respect to falsities, while the evil are vastated in respect to truths (n, 7474, 7541, 7542).

The well disposed undergo vastations that they also may be divested of what pertains to the earth and the world, which they had contracted while living in the world (n. 7186, 9763).

Also that evils and falsities may be removed, and thus there may be room for the influx of goods and truths out of heaven from the Lord, and ability to accept these (n. 7122, 9330).

Elevation into heaven is impossible until such things have been removed, because they obstruct heavenly things and are not in harmony with them (n. 6928, 7122, 7186, 7541, 7542, 9763).

Those who are to be raised up into heaven are thus prepared for it (n. 4728, 7090).

It is dangerous to come into heaven before being prepared (n. 537, 538).

The state of enlightenment and the joy of those who come out of vastation and are raised up into heaven, and their reception there (n. 2699, 2701, 2704).

The region where those vastations are effected is called the lower earth (n. 4728, 7090).

That region is under the soles of the feet surrounded by the hells; its nature described (n. 4940-4951, 7090); from experience (n. 699).

What the hells are which more than others infest and vastate (n. 7317, 7502, 7545).

Those that have infested and vastated the well disposed are afterwards afraid of them, shun them, and turn away from them (n. 7768).

These infestations and vastations are effected in different ways in accordance with the adhesion of evils and falsities, and they continue in accordance with their quality and quantity (n. 1106-1113).

Some are quite willing to be vastated (n. 1107).

Some are vastated by fears (n. 4942).

Some by being infested with the evils they have done in the world, and with the falsities they have thought in the world, from which they have anxieties and pangs of conscience (n. 1106).

Some by spiritual captivity, which is ignorance of truth and interception of truth, combined with a longing to know truths (n. 1109, 2694). Some by sleep; some by a middle state between wakefulness and sleep (n. 1108). Those that have placed merit in works seem to themselves to be cutting wood (n. 1110).

Others in other ways, with great variety (n. 699).

517-1 Every good has both its delight and its quality from uses and in accordance with uses; therefore such as the good is such the use is (n. 3049, 4984, 7038).

Angelic life consists in the goods of love and charity, thus in performing uses (n. 454).

The Lord and therefore the angels, have regard to nothing in man but ends which are uses (n. 1317, 1645, 5854).

The kingdom of the Lord is a kingdom of uses (n. 454, 696, 1103, 3645, 4054, 7038).

Serving the Lord is performing uses (n. 7038).

What man is, such are his uses (n. 1568, 3570, 4054, 6571, 6935, 6938, 10284).

523-1 Divine truth going forth from the Lord is the source of order, and Divine good is the essential of order (n. 1728, 2258, 8700, 8988).

Thus the Lord is order (n. 1919, 2011, 5110, 5703, 10336, 10619).

Divine truths are the laws of order (n. 2447, 7995).

The whole heaven is arranged by the Lord in accordance with His Divine order (n. 3038, 7211, 9128, 9338, 10125, 10151, 10157).

Therefore the form of heaven is a form in accord with the Divine order (n. 4040-4043, 6607, 9877).

So far as a man is living in accordance with order, that is, so far as he is living in good in accordance with Divine truths, he is receiving heaven in himself (n. 4839).

Man is the being in whom are brought together all things of Divine order, and by creation he is Divine order in form, because he is a recipient of Divine order (n. 3628, 4219, 4220, 4223, 4523, 4524, 5214, 6013, 6057, 6605, 6626, 9706, 10156, 10472).

Man is not born into good and truth but into evil and falsity, thus not into Divine order but into the opposite of order, and for this reason he is born into pure ignorance; consequently it is necessary for him to be born anew, that is, to be regenerated, which is effected by the Lord by means of Divine truths, that be may be brought back into order (n. 1047, 2307, 2308, 3518, 8480, 8550, 10283, 10284, 10286, 10731).

When the Lord forms man anew, that is, regenerates him, He arranges all things in him in harmony with order, that is, in the form of heaven (n. 5700, 6690, 9931, 10303).

Evils and falsities are contrary to order; nevertheless those who are in them are ruled by the Lord not in accordance with order but from order (n. 4839, 7877, 10777).

It is impossible for a man who lives in evil to be saved by mercy alone, for that would be contrary to Divine order (n. 8700).

526-1 In the internal sense of the Word by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Lord in respect to the Divine itself and the Divine Human is meant (n. 1893, 4615, 6098, 6185, 6276, 6804, 6847).

In heaven Abraham is unknown (n. 1834, 1876, 3229).

By David the Lord in respect to the Divine royalty is meant (n. 1888, 9954).

The twelve apostles represented the Lord in respect to all things of the church, that is, all things pertaining to faith and love (n. 2129, 3354, 3488, 3858, 6397).

Peter represented the lord in respect to faith, James in respect to charity, and John in respect to the works of charity (n. 3750, 10087).

The twelve apostles sitting on twelve thrones and judging the twelve tribes of Israel, signified that the Lord will judge in accord with the truths and goods of faith and love (n. 2129, 6397).

The names of persons and of places in the Word do not enter heaven, but are changed into things and states; and in heaven these names cannot even be uttered (n. 1876, 5225, 6516, 10216, 10282, 10432).

Moreover, the angels think abstractedly from persons (n. 8343, 8985, 9907).

534-1 “Stone” signifies truth (n. 114, 643, 1298, 3720, 6426, 8609, 10376).

For this reason the law was inscribed on tables of stone (n. 10376).

“The stone of Israel” means the Lord in respect to the Divine truth and His Divine Human (n. 6426).

535-1 A life of piety separated from a life of charity is of no avail, but united with charity it is profitable for all things (n. 8252, 8253).

Charity to the neighbor consists in doing what is good, just, and right in every work and in every employment (n. 8120-8122).

Charity to the neighbor takes in all things and each thing that a man thinks, wills, and does (n. 8124).

A life of charity is a life in accordance with the Lord’s commandments (n. 3249).

Living in accordance with the Lord’s commandments is loving the Lord (n. 10143, 10153, 10310, 10578, 10645).

Genuine charity claims no merit, because it is from interior affection and consequent delight (n. 2371, 2380, 2400, 3816, 3887, 6388-6393).

Man continues to be after death such as was his life of charity in the world (n. 8256).

Heavenly blessedness flows in from the Lord into a life of charity (n. 2363). Mere thinking admits no one into heaven; it must be accompanied by willing and doing good (n. 2401, 3459).

Unless doing good is joined with willing good and thinking good there is no salvation nor any conjunction of the internal man with the external (n. 3987).

545-1 In the Word anger and wrath are attributed to the Lord, but they are in man, and it is so expressed because such is the appearance to man when he is punished and damned (n. 798, 5798, 6997, 8284, 8483, 8875, 9306, 10431).

Evil also is attributed to the Lord, although nothing but good is from Him (n. 2447, 6071, 6991, 6997, 7533, 7632, 7679, 7926, 8227, 8228, 8632, 9306).

Why it is so expressed in the Word (n. 6071, 6991, 6997, 7632, 7643, 7679, 7710, 7926, 8282, 9010, 9128).

The Lord is pure mercy and clemency (n. 6997, 8875).