Apocalypse Explained # 428
428. Verse 4. And I heard the number of them that were sealed; a hundred and forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe [of the sons] of Israel. "And I heard the number of them that were sealed," signifies the quality of those who are in good separated from the evil; "a hundred and forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe [of the sons] of Israel," signifies all who are in truths from good, and therefore in the church of the Lord.
Heaven and Hell # 17
17. All experience in heaven testifies to the Divine going forth from the Lord, which affects the angels and makes heaven, being love. For all who are there are forms of love and charity, and appear in ineffable beauty with love shining forth from their faces, their speech and every particular of their life. 1 Moreover, there are, emanating from and surrounding every angel and every spirit, spiritual spheres of life by which their qualities, in respect of the affections of love, are known, sometimes at a considerable distance. For those spheres flow forth from the life of any one's affection and consequent thought, or from the life of his love and consequent faith. The spheres that go forth from angels are so full of love as to affect the inmost things of life of those with whom they are. They have frequently been perceived by me and they have so affected me. 2 That it is from love that angels have their life was further evident from the fact that, in the other life, everyone turns himself in accordance with his love. Those who are in love to the Lord and in love towards the neighbour constantly turn themselves to the Lord, while those who are in the love of self turn themselves constantly away from the Lord. This takes place in every turning of their body. For, in the other life, spaces conform to the states of their interiors, and so do the quarters, which are not determined as in the world but are determined according to which way they are looking. Yet it is not the angels who turn themselves to the Lord, but the Lord Who turns to Him those who love to do the things that are from Him. 3 But more will be written on these matters in the following pages where the quarters in the other life [are described].
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1. [Swedenborg's footnote] Angels are forms of love and charity (Arcana Coelestia 3804, 4735, 4797, 4985, 5199, 5530, 9879, 10177).
2. [Swedenborg's footnote] A spiritual sphere, which is a sphere of life, pours forth and overflows from every man, spirit, and angel, and encompasses him (Arcana Coelestia 4464, 5179, 7454, 8630). This sphere flows forth from the life of the affection and consequent thought (Arcana Coelestia 2489, 4464, 6206).
Spirits and angels turn themselves constantly to their loves, and those in the heavens turn themselves constantly to the Lord (Arcana Coelestia 10130, 10189, 10420, 10702).
3. [Swedenborg's footnote] The quarters in the other life are to each one in accordance with the direction of his face, and are thereby determined, otherwise than in the world (Arcana Coelestia 10130, 10189, 10420, 10702).
