9466. “蓝色” 表对真理的属天之爱. 这从 “蓝色” 的含义清楚可知,

“蓝色” 是指对真理的属天之爱.

“蓝色” 之以具有这种含义, 是因为它是一种天空的颜色, 这种颜色表示来自一个属天源头的真理, 也就是源于对主之爱的良善的真理. 这种良善在至内层天堂占主导地位, 在中间或第二层天堂显为紫色和蓝色. 该良善本身显为紫色, 源于它的真理显为蓝色. 因为当颜色出现在来世和天堂本身时, 它们是最美丽的颜色; 都来源于良善和真理. 事实上, 对良善和真理的情感的气场也通过颜色呈现在天使和灵人眼前, 具体事物通过各种颜色的物体而显现, 也通过气味呈给鼻子. 因为属于良善的一切属天事物和属于真理的一切属灵事物, 在低层天堂通过诸如出现在自然界的那类事物来代表, 并通过这种方式呈给那里的灵人和天使的实际外在感官. 对良善和真理的情感的气场之所以通过颜色而显为可见, 是因为颜色是天堂之光, 因而聪明和智慧的修改 (参看4530, 4677, 4742, 4922节).

这解释了为何在为帐幕和亚伦的衣服而收集的材料中有蓝色, 紫色, 染过两次的朱红色线, 染红的公羊皮; 因为帐幕代表主的天堂, 用来建造和遮盖它的材料代表属于良善和真理的属天和属灵事物; 亚伦的衣服具有类似的代表 (9457节). 这就解释了为何法柜里面的幔子用蓝色, 紫色, 染过两次的朱红色线和细麻织成 (出埃及记 26:31); 帐幕的门帘也是如此 (出埃及记 26:36); 院子的门帘同样如此 (出埃及记 27:16); 以及为何幔子边上的钮扣做蓝色的 (出埃及记 26:4). 这也解释了为何以弗得用金色, 蓝色, 紫色, 染过两次的朱红色线, 并细麻织成; 决断的胸牌同样如此 (出埃及记 28:6, 15).

在以西结书,

“蓝色” 表示对真理的属天之爱,

“蓝衣” 表示出于这爱的关于真理的认知或知识:

你的篷帆是用埃及刺绣的细麻布做的, 可以作你的大旗; 你的篷是用以利沙岛的蓝色, 紫色布做的. 这些商人以美好的货物, 成捆的蓝色绣工, 成箱的华丽衣服与你交易.(以西结书 27:7, 24)

这论及推罗, 推罗表示关于真理和良善的认知或知识 (1201节). 知识和从知识所获得的理解力被描述为 “埃及刺绣” 和 “以利沙岛的蓝色, 紫色布”;

“埃及刺绣” 是指真理的记忆知识;

“以利沙岛的蓝色, 紫色布” 是指对真理和良善的理解.

同一先知书:

有两个女子, 一母的女儿, 在埃及, 在幼年时行邪淫, 就是阿荷拉和阿荷利巴. 阿荷拉在我手下行邪淫, 贪恋她的邻邦亚述人, 穿着蓝衣, 作总督, 作领袖; 骑着马的马兵.(以西结书 23:2-6)

“阿荷拉” 表示撒玛利亚,

“阿荷利巴” 表示耶路撒冷 (23:4).

“撒玛利亚” 是指败坏的属灵教会;

“在埃及行邪淫” 表示通过记忆知识歪曲真理;

“贪恋她的邻邦亚述人” 表示热爱基于这些歪曲的推理;

“穿着蓝衣” 表示源于良善的真理的表象, 因为它们源于被错解的圣言字义.

类似的话出现在耶利米书:

锤炼的银片是从他施带来的, 并有从乌法来的金子, 都是匠人的工和铸匠的手工. 他们的衣服是蓝色和紫色料的. 这些都是巧匠的工作.(耶利米书 10:9)

这论及以色列家的偶像, 以色列家的偶像表示通过扭曲圣言的外在意义所确认的虚假教义 (参看9424节);

“匠人的工和铸匠的手工”, 以及 “这些都是巧匠的工作” 表示它们都是自我聪明的产物;

“他施来的银片和乌法来的金子” 表示从外表上看, 它们似乎是真理和良善, 因为它们取自圣言;

“蓝色和紫色料”, 也就是 “他们的衣服”, 意思也差不多.

启示录:

我在异象中看见那些马, 骑马的有火胸甲, 与蓝玛瑙并硫磺, 杀了人的三分之一.(启示录 9:17, 18)

“马” 和 “骑马的” 表示对真理的一种颠倒和败坏的理解;

“火胸甲, 与紫玛瑙并硫磺” 表示由恶魔般的爱之邪恶所产生的虚假的防御. 因此,

“火” 在此表示对邪恶的地狱之爱;

“蓝” 表示对虚假的地狱之爱; 因此, 它们都是反面意义上的; 因为圣言中的大多数事物也有一个反面意义.

3138. These three verses deal with the preparation and enlightenment of the natural man so that the truth which was to be joined to good in the Rational might be summoned from there. With regard to that preparation and enlightenment the position is that there are two kinds of light which shape man's intellectual concepts - the light of heaven, and the light of the world. The light of heaven comes from the Lord who to angels in the next life is the Sun and Moon, see 1053, 1521, 1529, 1530. The light of the world comes from the sun and moon which a person sees with his physical eyes. The internal man receives his sight and understanding from the light of heaven whereas the external man receives his sight and understanding from the light of the world. The influx of the light of heaven into ideas formed in the light of the world produces enlightenment and at the same time recognition - the recognition of truth if a correspondence exists, the recognition of falsity instead of truth if that correspondence does not exist. But enlightenment and recognition are not possible unless affection or love is present, which is spiritual warmth and imparts life to the things illumined by the light. This may be compared to the light of the sun. It is not the light of the sun but the warmth within the light that imparts life to plants, as is evident from the seasons of the year.

[2] The verses which follow immediately after this describe the preparation further - the light of heaven, which is the Lord's Divine light, flowed into the ideas formed in the light of the world in His natural man so that He might bring forth from there the truth that was to be joined to good in the Rational. Thus it was to be brought forth in what is the ordinary way. Therefore to make His Human Divine the Lord came into the world in the ordinary way, that is, He was willing to be born as any other person is born, to receive instruction as any other does, and to be born again as any other, but with this difference: Man is born again from the Lord, whereas the Lord not only regenerated Himself from Himself, but also glorified Himself, that is, made Himself Divine; also man is made new through the influx of charity and faith, whereas the Lord was made so through the influx of Divine Love that was within Him and that was His own. From this it may be seen that man's regeneration is an image of the Lord's glorification, or what amounts to the same, that in the process of man's regeneration as the image one can envisage, though remotely, the process of the Lord's glorification.