2949. Verses 12-13 And Abraham bowed before the people of the land. And he spoke to Ephron in the ears of the people of the land, saying, Even so, please hear me; I will give the price ¹ of the field; accept it from me, and I will bury my dead there.

'Abraham bowed before the people of the land' means the Lord's joy at the goodwill of those who belonged to the new spiritual Church. 'And he spoke to Ephron' means an influx with those who were able to receive it. 'In the ears of the people of the land' means even to being obedient as regards the truths of the Church. 'Even so, please hear me' means an interior influx. 'I will give the price of the field; accept it from me' means redemption as regards the truths of the Church which come from the Lord. 'And I will bury my dead' means that in this way they would emerge from night and be made alive.

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Instead, spiritual reality is structured on the basis of spiritual state, or the loves and thoughts of angels. These loves and thoughts connect in chains of cause and effect, which angels experience much as we experience time. One thought flows into another on the spiritual level, and angels sense that progression the same way we sense the progression of one moment flowing into another. And when angels have thoughts and feelings that are similar, they experience a closeness that is very much the same as our experience of physical closeness; their idea of “space” is the variation in thoughts and affections held by spirits throughout the spiritual world.When the Bible describes something as “after” something else, then, the spiritual meaning has to do with the progression of spiritual states; it is a new spiritual state emerging from the one before it. And since higher states flow into lower states, the things coming “after” tend to be the lower, more external ones. For instance, the deep, internal desire to be good to others flows of its own accord into specific ideas of specific good things we can do. Those specific ideas, then, would be “after” the desire to be good.According to Swedenborg, time and space don’t exist in spiritual reality; they are purely natural things that exist only on the physical plane. This means that one spiritual thing can’t happen “after” another spiritual thing in time, because there is no time. And one spiritual thing can’t follow “after” another in space because there is no space.