As the finest of the grains, wheat fittingly represents the finest of spiritual food, what Swedenborg calls "the good of love and charity" – which is the desire for good that springs from love of the Lord and love of serving others.

From a nutritional standpoint, wheat is packed with complex carbohydrates, a good source of lasting energy – and the desire for good from love of the Lord and love of the neighbor is a good source of lasting spiritual energy. Yet the carbohydrate-rich heart of each grain of wheat is covered by a hull rich with vitamins, protein and fiber, building blocks for the body – much as the desire for good is clothed in ideas of how to put good into action.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 374; Apocalypse Revealed 315; Arcana Coelestia 3941 [1-9], 7605, 9995)

39. (24) The angels of heaven in direct conversation confirmed that conjugial love is such a love, that there is such a delight, that they have such wisdom, that there is heaven in it, and that they are to that extent human beings. - Afterwards they looked into hell, and said that there is all filth, and that the worst adulterers and adulteresses appear like swine and hogs, and like swine and hogs they take delight in dung; and they said that one of them was so delighted with dung that he wanted to eat it. This is a coincidence with the prophet who was ordered to make himself a cake of excrement.