THE NEW JERUSALEM AND ITS HEAVENLY DOCTRINE

ACCORDING TO WHAT HAS BEEN HEARD FROM HEAVEN

WITH AN INTRODUCTION CONCERNING THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all things shall be added unto you." (Matthew 6:33)

1412. 'From the place of your nativity' means bodily and worldly things that were more exterior, and 'from your father's house' means such as were more interior. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'nativity' and from the meaning of 'father's house'. There are in man bodily and worldly things, some of which are more exterior, others more interior. The more exterior are those which belong properly to the body, such as physical pleasures and sensory perceptions, while the interior are affections and factual knowledge. It is these that are meant by 'nativity' and by 'father's house'. That these things are meant may be confirmed from many places, but as the matter is clear from the context in which they belong and from an insight into what occurs in the internal sense there is no need to pause and confirm them.

4575. 'And kings will go out from your loins' means truths from the Divine Marriage. This is clear from the meaning of 'kings' as truths, dealt with in 1672, 1728, 2015, 2069, 3009, 3670, and from the meaning of 'the loins' as the things of conjugial love, dealt with in 3021, 4277, 4280, and therefore as the things of the heavenly marriage, and in the highest sense of the Divine Marriage. Truths from the Divine Marriage proceed from the Lord's Divine Human and are called holy; for the Lord's Divine Human is the Divine Marriage itself, and the things proceeding from that Marriage are holy. These are called celestial and spiritual, and they constitute the heavenly marriage, which is the marriage of truth joined to good, and of good joined to truth. This marriage exists in heaven and in every person who has heaven within him It also exists in every person within the Church, if good and at the same time truth are present in him.