804. Verses 8, 9. And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If anyone hath an ear let him hear.

8. "And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him," signifies the necessity of acknowledgment by those who have been born within the church n. 805; "whose names are not written in the book of life," signifies by all who have not become spiritual by regeneration by the Lord. n. 806); "slain from the foundation of the world," signifies whose Divine in His Human has not been acknowledged from the first establishment of this church n. 807.

9. "If anyone hath an ear let him hear," signifies reception by those who are in the understanding of truth and the consequent perception of good n. 808.

3744. From this one may now see what heaven is like and why it is called the Grand Man. Yet the variations there in the life of good and truth are countless; and each variation is determined by the way in which life from the Lord is received. Those variations are interrelated in exactly the same way as the organs, members, and viscera in the human being, all of which are ever-varying recipient forms of life from the soul, or rather from the Lord through the soul. Yet for all their variety they nevertheless together constitute one human being.