Book
In Revelation 10:9, "And I went unto the angel, saying, give me the little book," signifies the faculty of perceiving the quality of the Word from the Lord.
In Psalm 40:7, this signifies the Word. (Apocalypse Explained 299, Coronis 60)
(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 616)
Heaven and Hell # 58
58. Lastly, it must be mentioned that he who has heaven in himself, has it not only in the greatest or general things pertaining to him but also in the very least or particular things; and that these least things repeat in an image the greatest. This comes from the fact that everyone is his own love, and is such as is his ruling love. The ruling love inflows into particulars and arranges them, and everywhere induces a likeness of itself. 1 In the heavens, love to the Lord is the ruling love, for there the Lord is loved above all things. Hence, the Lord there is the All in all things, flowing into all and each, arranging them, clothing them with a likeness of Himself, and making it to be heaven wherever He is. So it is that an angel is a heaven in the least form, a society in a greater form, and all the societies taken together a heaven in the greatest form. That the Divine of the Lord makes heaven and that He is the All in all things may be seen above (7-12).
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1. [Swedenborg's footnote] The ruling or dominant love with everyone is in each thing and all things of his life, thus in each thing and all things of his thought and will (Arcana Coelestia 6159, 7648, 8067, 8853).
Man is such as is the ruling quality of his life (Arcana Coelestia 987, 1040, 1568, 3570, 6571, 6935, 6938, 8853-8858, 10076, 10109-10110, 10284).
When love and faith rule they are in all the particulars of man's life, although he does not know it (Arcana Coelestia 8854, 8864-8865).
