4450. 'And intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to yourselves' means the union of goods and truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'intermarrying' as union, dealt with in 4434; from the meaning of 'daughters' as affections, and so goods, dealt with in 489-491, 2362, 3963. Its being a union with truths is meant by 'give to us' and 'take to yourselves', for 'Shechem' and 'the sons of Jacob' mean truths, as shown above. From this it is evident that these words mean the union of goods and truths, that is, that through that union this new Church was to be similar to the Ancient Church not only in outward appearance but also in inward.

2494. While people with whom love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour exist are living in the world they have angelic intelligence and wisdom with them and within them, but it is concealed in the inmost parts of their interior memory. This intelligence and wisdom cannot possibly be seen by them until they cast off bodily things. When they do so the memory of particulars, referred to above, is put to sleep, and they are awakened to the interior memory, and gradually after that to angelic memory itself.