第1-6节。启示说，真理的力量是根据它所产生的善而显现的；天人之爱的品质在天人的真理中显现，灵性之爱的品质在灵性的真理中显现；所有的真理都来自于神圣的善；与善结合的真理在善行中具有力量；处于这种状态的人不再受试探。

第7-9节。再如：所有的真理都被认为是通过天体从主而来；因此，当人通过接受善进入内部状态时，他的真理与善连在一起，特别是天体的善与它的真理连在一起，从而在所有的天体中以连续的程度产生善和真理的成果；因此，这表明每个人都有真理的力量，根据他来自主的善。

第10-13节。因此，启示说，天体的真理来自天体的善，是最深处的真理，其中有管理低级真理的所有力量；属灵的人由此承认，从他自己来说，他没有善，没有真理；从他自己来说，冒然接近主的人，必然要遭受灵性的死亡。

9864. 'There shall be four rows of stones, the order being' means all of them joined together, that is to say, all the truths springing from good. This is clear from the meaning of 'four' as a joining together, dealt with in 1686, 9601, 9674; and from the meaning of 'rows of stones' as truths springing from good in their proper order. The setting of them in four rows, three in each row, was decreed in order that the joining together of all the truths springing from the same good, and so their perfection, might be represented; for 'four' means a joining together, as has been stated, and 'three' means perfection, 9825. Indeed since one and the same good is the source from which they all emanate, 9863, and is consequently the one to which they all look back, that good is what joins them all together.

[2] Things that happen in heaven may serve to cast light on all this and show that it is so. All without exception in heaven turn their face towards the Lord; and - marvel that it is - this happens whatever direction they turn to face. As a consequence of this all who are in heaven are joined together as one. But those who are outside heaven turn their face away from the Lord; and the further away they are from heaven the further away their faced is turned. As a consequence of this there is division among them, because they do not love God or their neighbour, only themselves and the world. But this is an arcanum which for those whose thought is ruled by the illusions of the senses is inconceivable; for they cannot at all comprehend how every face in heaven can be always looking, in whatever direction its owner turns, towards the Lord, who is the Sun there. See what has been introduced above in 9828 on this subject.