The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #172
172. Internal Meaning of Daniel, Chapter 1(1)
1-2 When the church among the Jewish nation had been destroyed, Babylon appropriated to herself all things pertaining to it. (2)
2-21 She wished to know all things of the church, and to acquire an understanding of them, and this was the beginning of Babylon. (2)
Arcana Coelestia #2870
2870. HUMAN FREEDOM
Few know what freedom is and what non-freedom is. Freedom seems to entail everything that is in keeping with any love and associated delight, and non-freedom to entail everything that is at variance with these. That which is in keeping with self-love and love of the world, and with the desires belonging to those loves, seems to man to be freedom; but that is the freedom of hell. That however which is in keeping with love to the Lord and love towards the neighbour, consequently with the love of what is good and true, is true freedom, being the freedom that exists in heaven.
