359. We could not be images of God according to his likeness unless he were within us and were our life from our very center. God's presence within us and God's being our life from our very center follow from what I explained in 4-6 above, namely that God alone is life and that we and angels are life-receivers from him.

The Word tells us that God is in us and makes his home with us; and because the Word tells us this, preachers are fond of telling us to prepare ourselves to let God come into our lives so that he may be in our hearts and that our hearts may be his dwelling. The devout say the same in their prayers. Some [preachers] talk and preach more explicitly about the Holy Spirit, who they believe is within them when they are filled with holy zeal as the source of their thought, speech, and preaching. I have explained in 51-53 of Teachings for the New Jerusalem on the Lord that the Holy Spirit is the Lord and not some God who is a separate individual. The Lord actually says, "In that day you will know that you are in me and I in you" (John 14:21 [20]), and he says similar things in John 15:24 [4] and John 17:23.

'Vestments' signify truth, and in relation to the Lord, divine truth. 'Vesture' signifies truth that clothes good, and when describing the Word, it signifies the Word in its literal sense, like a garment that clothes its spiritual and celestial sense.

In 2 Kings 10:22, the vestments for the worshippers of Baal signify the falsities of idolatrous worship -- the opposite of truth. (Arcana Coelestia 1372)

(सन्दर्भ: Apocalypse Explained 685)