The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #124
124. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 1(1)
1-3 Prophecy concerning the Lord in respect to the Word. (10)
4 The Divine external sphere of the Word. (10)
5 A representative of it as a man. (10)
6 Conjunction of celestial and spiritual things there. (10, 3)
7 The quality of the natural of the Word. (10)
8-9 Its spiritual and celestial which are conjoined. (10)
10-11 The love of spiritual good and truth, and the love of natural good and truth; their distinction and oneness. (10)
12 The turning or looking of all toward one. (10)
13-14 The sphere of the Word from Divine good and Divine truth, from which is the life of the Word. (10)
15-21 The doctrine of good and truth acting in unity with the Word. (10)
22-23 The Divine above and in the Word. (10, 2)
24-25 It is Divine truth [verum], and its influx. (10)
26 The Lord above the heavens. (10)
27-28 The Divine love and the Divine truth [veritas] pertaining to Him. (10)
Ezekiel 1:15-21
15
Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it.
16
The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl: and the four of them had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.
17
When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn when they went.
18
As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.
19
When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
20
Wherever the spirit was to go, they went; there was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
21
When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
