Arcana Coelestia # 9550
9550. 'Solid shall the lampstand be made' means that all of it must spring from good. This is clear from the meaning of 'solid' as the entire whole, consequently as the necessity for all of it to spring from good, which is meant by 'gold'. For the whole of the spiritual, meant by 'the lampstand' since it serves to shed light, arises from the celestial and is also kept in constant being by means of it, even as all truth springs from good. If you take away good, truth is instantly wiped out; for the soul of truth is good. It is like an affection belonging to love and its link to thought. If that affection is taken away, the thought is immediately wiped out; for the affection is the actual life or the soul of the thought. Every affection belonging to love has connection with good, and every thought springing from it has connection with truth. The truth which springs from good is called spiritual, and the good from which the truth springs is called celestial.
Luke 11:33-36
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"No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.
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The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
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Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness.
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If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light."
