The number "two" has two different meanings in the Bible. In most cases "two" indicates a joining together or unification. This is easy to see if we consider the conflicts we tend to have between our "hearts" and our "heads" -- between what we want and what we know. Our "hearts" tell us that we want pie with ice cream for dinner; our "heads" tell us we should have grilled chicken and salad. If we can bring those two together and actually want what's good for us, we'll be pretty happy. We're built that way -- with our emotions balanced against our intellect -- because the Lord is built that way. His essence is love itself, or Divine Love, the source of all caring, emotion and energy. It is expressed as Divine Wisdom, which gives form to that love and puts it to work, and is the source of all knowledge and reasoning. In His case the two aspects are always in conjunction, always in harmony. It's easy also to see how that duality is reflected throughout creation: plants and animals, food and drink, silver and gold. Most importantly, it's reflected in the two genders, with women representing love and men representing wisdom. That's the underlying reason why conjunction in marriage is such a holy thing. So when "two" is used in the Bible to indicate some sort of pairing or unity, it means a joining together. In rare cases, however, "two" is used more purely as a number. In these cases it stands for a profane or unholy state that comes before a holy one. This is because "three" represents a state of holiness and completion (Jesus, for instance, rose from the tomb on the third day), and "two" represents the state just before it.

303. 三十四、天堂通过圣经（圣言）与人结合

出于内在理性思考的人都能看出，一切事物都通过媒介与“太初” ¹ 相连，凡不相连的都会消散。因为他们在思考这事时，他们知道任何事物都无法靠自己持续存在，而只能是靠它之前的事物，因此，一切都溯源至“太初”；而且，与先在之物的连结就像效果与效因的连结， ² 因为当效因被移除时，效果就会土崩瓦解。学者们因如此思考，就明白并说：持续存在就是不断地产生。 ³ 因此，一切事物靠“太初”而持续存在，既然它们源于“太初”，故它们不断地被产生，也就说，出于“太初”而得以持续存在。

但一切事物与它的先在之物、因而与作为一切事物源头的“太初”的连接是何性质，则无法用三言两语来说明，因为这种连接变化多样。只能大体上说，尘世与灵界存在连接，以至于尘世的一切事物与灵界的一切事物有对应关系（参看103-115节）。人的一切与天堂的一切有连接，因而有对应关系。（可参看87-102节）。

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