2163. 'Recline under the tree' means towards the perception of the state through which He was passing. This is clear from the meaning of 'a tree' as perception, dealt with in 103. The whole train of thought shows that this is the real meaning here. 'Trees' means perceptions, and the reason for this was that the celestial man was compared and likened to the paradise or garden in Eden, and therefore the perceptions of celestial things with that man to the trees that were there.

In Genesis 38:29, this signifies the infraction and perversion of truth by separation from its good. (Arcana Coelestia 4926)

In Amos 6:11, this signifies such perversion and falsification of truth with the educated and learned as well as the with the simpler. (Apocalypse Explained 519[6])

In Isaiah 30:26, a breach signifies falsity of doctrine.