10158. 'I am Jehovah their God' means the source of all the good of love and truth of faith. This is clear from the consideration that 'Jehovah' means the Divine Being (Esse), and the Divine Being is Divine Love, thus Divine Good, whereas 'God' means the Divine Manifestation (Existere), and the Divine Manifestation is the Divine that constitutes faith, thus is Divine Truth. For all truth is a manifestation of good since truth is the outward form that good takes. From all this it is evident that when the Lord is called 'Jehovah God' all the good of love and truth of faith is meant, and when the words 'Jehovah God in the midst of the children of Israel' are used perception that the Lord is the source of all the good which belongs to love and the truth which constitutes faith is meant, as above in 10155.

536. Frequent reference has been made in previous paragraphs to perception as it existed in the Churches prior to the Flood, and how nowadays perception is something altogether unknown, so unknown that some may imagine it to be a type of continuous revelation, or to be something innate in people. Others may imagine that it is purely a figment of the imagination, and others something different again. But whatever they may think, perception is in fact the celestial itself which the Lord imparts to those who possess faith that inheres in love, and throughout the whole of heaven perception exists in forms endlessly varying. All of this being so, to enable people to have some idea of what perception is, in the Lord's Divine mercy let the nature of the various kinds of perception as they exist in heaven be described later on.