The number "four" in the Bible represents things being linked together or joined. This is partly because four is two times two, and two represents the ultimate linking between our desire to be good and our understanding of truth. We can also see this in the fact that most buildings are rectangular, with the four sides linking together to make a whole. We also divide directions into four -- north, east, south and west -- and talk about the "four corners" of something meaning all of it. So our special thinking naturally looks at four sides as linking together into a whole.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 417; Arcana Coelestia 1686, 9103, 9601, 9767, 9864)

9104. SPIRITS AND INHABITANTS OF THE PLANET SATURN - continued

Certain spirits from our planet travelled over to spirits belonging to the planet Saturn, who, as stated above, are positioned a considerable distance away, since they appear at the extremity of our solar system. Such a journey is completed in an instant, because distances in the next life are appearances, produced by the differences that lie between one state of life and another, 2625, 2837, 3356, 3387, 3404, 4321, 4882, 5605, 7381, and because a state in which there is a desire to talk to another brings people together. So it is that those who have had some connection with one another in the world, either through love, friendship, or respect, come together in the next life when they desire it But afterwards they are separated to the extent that their states of life are dissimilar.