9273. And shalt gather the produce thereof. That this signifies the goods of truth therefrom, is evident from the signification of “gathering,” as being appropriation after instruction, for when “sowing” denotes instruction and being instructed in the truths of faith (as just shown), “gathering” denotes the appropriation of them. Appropriation is effected when the truths that have been of doctrine become of the life. When they become truths of life, they are called the “goods of truth.” It is these which are here signified by “produce.”

2987. CONCERNING REPRESENTATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCES.

Few know what representations and correspondences are, nor can anyone know this unless he knows that there is a spiritual world, and this distinct from the natural world; for there exists a correspondence between spiritual things and natural things, and the things that come forth from spiritual things in natural ones are representations. They are called correspondences because they correspond, and representations because they represent.