213. "'That the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed.'" This symbolically means, so as not to profane and adulterate the goodness of heavenly love.

No one can know the symbolic meaning of the shame of nakedness unless he knows that the reproductive organs in both sexes, called also the genitalia, correspond to celestial love.

To be shown that the human body and all its constituents have a correspondence with the heavens, see the book Heaven and Hell, published in London in , nos. 87-102. And to be shown that the reproductive organs correspond to celestial love, see Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven), also published in London, nos. 5050-5062.

Now because these organs correspond to celestial love, which is the love found in the third or inmost heaven, and because a person is born of his parents into loves contrary to that love, it is apparent that if he does not acquire for himself the goodness of love and the truth of wisdom from the Lord, which are symbolically meant by gold refined in fire and white garments, he will be seen to be impelled by a contrary love, which in itself is profane.

[2] This latter circumstance is symbolically meant by uncovering nakedness and manifesting the shame of it, in the following places:

Blessed is he who watches and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and his private parts be seen. (Revelation 16:15)

...daughter of Babylon (and of the Chaldeans), sit on the ground... Uncover your hair..., uncover the thigh, pass through the rivers. Let your nakedness be uncovered; yes, let your shame be seen. (Isaiah 47:1-3)

Woe to the bloody city! ...Because of the multitude of (her) harlotries... I will uncover your skirts in front of you, and I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your disgrace. (Nahum 3:1, 4-5)

Contend with your mother... lest I strip her naked... (Hosea 2:2-4)

When I passed by you... I covered your nakedness... Then I washed you... and... I clothed you... But you... played the harlot... not remembering your youth, when you were naked and bare... (Therefore) your nakedness was uncovered... (Ezekiel 16:6ff.)

Jerusalem has sinned gravely; therefore... all... despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. (Lamentations 1:8)

Jerusalem, of which these things were said, means the church; and to play the harlot means, symbolically, to adulterate and falsify the Word (no. 134).

Woe to him who makes his neighbor drink..., making him drunk, that you may look on his nakedness! ...Drink, you too, that your uncircumcised foreskin may be exposed! (Habakkuk 2:15-16)

[3] Someone who knows what nakedness symbolizes can understand what is symbolically meant by the statement that when Noah was drunk from drinking wine he lay uncovered inside his tent, and Ham saw and laughed at his nakedness, but Shem and Japheth covered his nakedness, turning their faces away so as not to see it (Genesis 9:21-23). He can understand also why it was decreed that Aaron and his sons should not go up by steps to the altar, that their nakedness might not be exposed (Exodus 20:26). And so, too, why it was decreed that they should make for them linen trousers to cover their naked flesh, that they should have these on when they came near the altar, and that otherwise they would bear their iniquity and die (Exodus 28:42-43).

Nakedness in these places symbolizes the evils into which a person is born, which, because they are contrary to the goodness of celestial love, are in themselves profane and are removed only by truths and by living in accordance with those truths. Linen also symbolizes truth (no. 671[1-2]).

[4] Nakedness in addition symbolizes innocence, and also ignorance of goodness and truth. Innocence is symbolized by the statement, "they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they had no cause for shame" (Genesis 2:25). Ignorance of goodness and truth is symbolized by the following:

...this... fast that I choose: ...to break bread with the hungry..., and... when you see the naked man, to cover him. (Isaiah 58:6-7)

He gives his bread to the hungry man, and covers the naked one with clothing. (Ezekiel 18:7)

...I was hungry and you gave Me food...; I was naked and you clothed Me. (Matthew 25:35-36)

86. Those in heaven were amazed that men believe themselves intelligent, who, in thinking of God, think of something invisible, that is, incomprehensible under any form, and that they call those who think differently, unintelligent and simple, when yet the reverse is the case. They say if those who thus believe themselves to be intelligent were to examine themselves, would they not see nature as God-some, nature as it is before their eyes, others, the invisible side of nature? And further, are they not so blind that they know not what God is, what an angel is, or a spirit, or their soul which is to live after death, what the life of heaven with man and many other things that are matters of intelligence? Yet, those they call simple know all these things in their way, having an idea of their God that He is the Divine in a Human form, of an angel that he is a heavenly man, of their soul that it is to live after death, that it is like an angel, and of the life of heaven with man that it is to live in accordance with the Divine precepts. These are the ones whom angels call intelligent and fitted for heaven, but the others, on the contrary, not intelligent.

[2] COLLECTED EXTRACTS FROM THE ARCANA CAELESTIA RELATING TO THE LORD AND HIS DIVINE HUMAN.

The Lord had the Divine from His very conception (4641, 4963, 5041, 5157, 6716, 10125).

The Lord alone had a Divine seed (1438).

His soul was Jehovah (1999, 2004-2005, 2018, 2025).

Thus the Lord's inmost was the Divine Itself, while the clothing was from the mother (5041).

The Divine Itself was the Being (Esse) of the Lord's life, and from this the Human afterwards went forth and became the existing (Existere) from that Being (Esse) (3194, 3210, 10269, 10738).

[3] Within the Church where the Word is and by it the Lord is known, the Lord's Divine ought not to be denied, nor the Holy that goes forth from Him (2359).

Those within the Church who do not acknowledge the Lord have no conjunction with the Divine; but it is otherwise with those outside the Church (10205).

The essential of the Church is to acknowledge the Lord's Divine and His union with the Father (10083, 10112, 10370, 10730, 10738, 10816-10820).

[4] The glorification of the Lord is treated of in the Word in many passages (10828).

And in the internal sense of the Word everywhere (2249, 2523, 3245).

The Lord glorified His Human, but not the Divine, since this in Itself was glorified (10057).

The Lord came into the world to glorify His Human (3637, 4287, 9355).

The Lord glorified His Human by means of the Divine love that was in Him from conception (4727).

The Lord's love towards the entire human race was His life in the world (2253).

The Lord's love transcends all human understanding (2077).

The Lord saved the human race by glorifying His Human (4180, 10019, 10152, 10655, 10659, 10828).

Otherwise the whole human race world have perished in eternal death (1676).

The state of the Lord's glorification and humiliation (1785, 1999, 2159, 6866).

Glorification in respect of the Lord is the uniting of His Human with the Divine; and to glorify is to make Divine (1603, 10053, 10828).

When the Lord glorified His Human He put off everything human that was from the mother, until at last He was not her son (2159, 2574, 2649, 3036, 10830).

[5] The Son of God from eternity was the Divine truth in heaven (2628, 2798, 2803, 3195, 3704).

When the Lord was in the world He also made His Human, Divine Truth from the Divine Good that was in Him (2803, 3194-3195, 3210, 6716, 6864, 7014, 7499, 8127, 8724, 9199).

The Lord then arranged all things in Himself [apud Se] into a heavenly form, which is in accord with Divine truth (1928, 3633).

For this reason the Lord was called the Word, which is Divine Truth (2533, 2813, 2859, 2894, 3393, 3712).

The Lord alone had perception and thought from Himself, and above all angelic perception and thought (1904, 1914, 1919).

The Divine Truth which was Himself, the Lord united with Divine Good which was in Him (10047, 10052, 10076).

The union was reciprocal (2004, 10067).

[6] In passing out of the world the Lord also made His Human Divine good (3194, 3210, 6864, 7499, 8724, 9199, 10076).

This is what is meant by His coming forth from the Father and returning to the Father (3194, 3210).

Thus He became one with the Father (2751, 3704, 4766).

Since that union Divine truth goes forth from the Lord (3704, 3712, 3969, 4577, 5704, 7499, 8127, 8241, 9199, 9398).

How Divine truth goes forth, illustrated (7270, 9407).

It was from His own power that the Lord united the Human with the Divine (1616, 1749, 1752, 1813, 1921, 2025-2026, 2523, 3141, 5005, 5045, 6716).

It can be confirmed from this that the Lord's Human was not like the human of another man, because it had been conceived from the Divine Itself (10125, 10826).

His union with the Father, from Whom was His soul, was not as between two persons, but as between soul and body (3737, 10824).

[7] The most ancient people could not worship the Divine Being (Esse), but could worship only the Divine Existing (Existere), which is the Divine Human; therefore the Lord came into the world in order to become the Divine Existere from the Divine Esse (4687, 5321).

The ancients acknowledged the Divine because He appeared to them in a human form, and this was the Divine Human (5110, 5663, 6845, 10737).

The Infinite Being (Esse) could flow into heaven with the angels and with men only by means of the Divine Human (1676, 1990, 2016, 2034).

In heaven no other Divine than the Divine Human is perceived (6475, 9303, 10067, 10267).

The Divine Human from eternity was the Divine truth in heaven and the Divine passing through heaven; thus it was the Divine Existing (Existere) which afterwards in the Lord became the Divine Being (Esse) per Se, from which is the Divine Existere in heaven (3061, 6280, 6880, 10579).

What the state of heaven was before the Lord's coming (6371-6373).

The Divine was not perceptible except when it passed through heaven (6982, 6996, 7004).

[8] The inhabitants of all the earths worship the Divine under a human form, that is, the Lord (6700, 8541-8547, 10736-10738).

They rejoice when they hear that God actually became Man (9361).

The Lord receives all who are in good and who worship the Divine under a human form (9359).

God cannot be thought of except in human form; and what is incomprehensible does not fall into any idea, so neither into belief (9359, 9972).

Man is able to worship that of which he has some idea, but not that of which he has no idea (4733, 5110, 5663, 7211, 10067, 10267).

Therefore the Divine is worshipped under a human form by most of the inhabitants of the entire globe, and this is the effect of influx from heaven (10159).

All who are in good in regard to their life, when they think of the Lord, think of the Divine Human, and not of the Human separate from the Divine; it is otherwise with those who are not in good in regard to their life (2326, 4724, 4731, 4766, 8878, 9193, 9198).

In the Church at this day those who are in evil in regard to their life, and those who are in faith separate from charity, think of the Human of the Lord apart from the Divine, and do not even comprehend what the Divine Human is-why they do not (3212, 3241, 4689, 4692, 4724, 4731, 5321, 6872, 8878, 9193, 9198).

The Lord's Human is Divine because it is from the Being (Esse) of the Father, and this was His soul-illustrated by a father's likeness in children (10269, 10372, 10823).

Also because it was from the Divine love, which was the very Being (Esse) of His life from conception (6872).

Every man is such as his love is, and is his love (6872, 10177, 10284).

The Lord made all His Human, both internal and external, Divine (1603, 1815, 1902, 1926, 2083, 2093).

Therefore, differently from any man, He rose again as to His whole body (1729, 2083, 5078, 10825).

[9] That the Lord's Human is Divine is acknowledged from His omnipresence in the Holy Supper (2343, 2359).

Also from His transfiguration before His three disciples (3212).

Also from the Word of the Old Testament, in that He is called God (Arcana Coelestia 10154); and is Jehovah (1603, 1736, 1815, 1902, 2921, 3035, 5110, 6281, 6303, 8864, 9194, 9315).

In the sense of the letter a distinction is made between the Father and the Son, that is, between Jehovah and the Lord, but not in the internal sense of the Word, in which the angels of heaven are (3035).

In the Christian world the Lord's Human has been declared not to be Divine; this was done in a council for the pope's sake; that he might be acknowledged as the Lord's vicar (4738).

[10] Christians were examined in the other life in regard to their idea of one God, and it was found they held an idea of three gods (2329, 5256, 10736-10738, 10821).

A Divine Trinity or Trine in one Person, thus one God, is conceivable, but not a Trinity in three Persons (10738, 10821, 10824).

A Divine trine in the Lord is acknowledged in heaven (14-15, 1729, 2004, 5256, 9303).

The trine in the Lord is the Divine Itself, called the Father, the Divine Human, which is the Son, and the Divine going forth, which is the Holy Spirit and this Divine trine is a One (2149, 2156, 2288, 2319, 2329, 2447, 3704, 6993, 7182, 10738, 10822-10823).

The Lord Himself teaches that the Father and He are One (1729, 2004-2005, 2018, 2025, 2751, 3704, 3736, 4766); also that the Holy Divine goes forth from Him and is His (3969, 4673, 6788, 6993, 7499, 8127, 8302, 9199, 9228-9229, 9264, 9407, 9818, 9820, 10330).

[11] The Divine Human flows into heaven and makes heaven (3038).

The Lord is the all in heaven and is the life of heaven (7211, 9128).

The Lord dwells in what is His own with the angels (9338, 10125, 10151, 10157).

Consequently those who are in heaven are in the Lord (3637-3638).

The Lord's conjunction with angels is in accordance with their reception of the good of love and charity from Him (904, 4198, 4205, 4211, 4220, 6280, 6832, 7042, 8819, 9680, 9682-9683, 10106, 10810).

The entire heaven has reference to the Lord (551-552).

The Lord is the common centre of heaven (3633, 3641).

All in heaven turn themselves to the Lord, Who is above the heavens (9828, 10130, 10189).

Nevertheless angels do not turn themselves to the Lord, but the Lord turns them to Himself (10189).

It is not a presence of angels with the Lord, but the Lord's presence with angels (9415).

In heaven there is no conjunction with the Divine Itself, but conjunction with the Divine Human (4211, 4724, 5663).

[12] Heaven corresponds to the Divine Human of the Lord; consequently heaven in general is as a single man, and for this reason heaven is called the Grand Man (2996, 2998, 3624-3649, 3741-3745, 4625).

The Lord is the Only Man, and those only are men who receive the Divine from Him (1894).

So far as they receive are they men and images of Him (8547).

Therefore angels are forms of love and charity in human form, and this from the Lord (3804, 4735, 4797, 4985, 5199, 5530, 9879, 10177).

[13] The entire heaven is the Lord's (2751, 7086).

He has all power in the heavens and on earth (1607, 10089, 10827).

As the Lord rules the whole heaven He also rules all things depending thereon, thus all things in the world (2025-2026, 4523-4524).

The Lord alone has the power to remove the hells, to withhold from evils, and to hold in good, thus to save (10019).