King
In Genesis 14:1, kings signify apparent goods and truths having the upper hand. In the next verse, they stand for the dominant evils and falsities against which the Lord fought as he passed He grew up on Earth.
In Genesis 14:3, we see that these evils and falsities were unclean; and in Genesis 14:4, that they burst forth later. (Arcana Coelestia 1661-1664).
In Genesis 14:14-15, this signifies that the Lord gained victory over them the evils represented earlier in the chapter. (Arcana Coelestia 1711-1715)
In Isaiah 33:17, a king signifies seeing genuine truth. (Apocalypse Explained 304[31])
In Revelation 9:11, a king signifies one who is in truth from an affection for what is good, and abstractly that truth itself -- here, in the opposite sense. (Apocalypse Revealed 440)
Heaven and Hell # 145
145. The angels see the Lord one way, and the Lord sees the angels another way. The angels see the Lord through their eyes, but the Lord looks at the angels in the forehead. The reason for this is that the forehead corresponds to love, and it is through love that the Lord flows into their will while it is through the understanding to which the eyes correspond that He causes Himself to be seen. 1
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1. [Swedenborg's footnote] The forehead corresponds to celestial love; therefore in the Word the "forehead" signifies that love (Arcana Coelestia 9936).
The eye corresponds to the understanding, because the understanding is internal sight (Arcana Coelestia 2701, 4410, 4526, 9051, 10569).
For this reason "to lift up the eyes" and "to see" signifies to understand, perceive and observe (Arcana Coelestia 2789, 2829, 3198, 3202, 4083, 4339, 5684).
