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Katso, minä tahdon heidät sieltä herättää, johonka te heidät myyneet olette; ja tahdon sen kostaa teidän päänne päälle;
Joel 3:7
SWORD version by Tero Favorin (tero at favorin dot com)
Heaven and Hell # 120
120. We can gather how great divine love is and what its quality is by comparison with the sun of our world - that love is most intense, far more intense, if you will believe it. So the Lord as the sun does not flow directly into the heavens; rather, the intensity of his love is by degrees tempered in its course. The stages of this tempering look like sparkling halos around the sun. Further, angels are shielded by a suitably thin cloud so that they will not be hurt by the inflow. 1 As a result, the heavens are distanced according to their receptiveness. The higher heavens, being in the good of love, are closest to the Lord as the sun. The lower heavens, though, being in the good of faith, are farther from him. People who are engaged in nothing good whatever, like the people in hell, are farthest away, their removal being in proportion to their opposition to what is good. 2
Poznámky pod čarou:
1. [Swedenborg's footnote] The quality and greatness of divine love, illustrated by comparison with the fire of our world's sun: 6834, 6844 [8644?], 6849. The Lord's divine love is a love for the whole human race, for its salvation: 1820, 1865, 2253, 6872. The love that emanates most closely from the fire of the Lord's love does not come into heaven, but appears around the sun like a sparkling halo: 7270. Further, angels are shielded by a suitably thin cloud, so that they will not be hurt by the inflow of the heat of love: 6849.
2. [Swedenborg's footnote] The manner of the Lord's presence with angels depends on their acceptance of the good of love and faith from him: 904, 4198, 4320, 6280, 6832, 7042, 8819, 9680, 9682-9683, 10106, 10811. The Lord appears to every individual according to that individual's own quality: 1861, 2235 [3235?], 4198, 4206. The hells are distanced from the heavens by the fact that they cannot bear the presence of divine love from the Lord: 4299, 7519, 7738, 7989, 8157 [8137?], 8266 [8265?], 9327. So the hells are very far indeed from heaven, and this is the "great gulf": 9346, 10187.
