178. Even as I received of my Father. This signifies comparatively as the Lord did from His Divine, when He glorified His Human; for He dissipated all evils and falsities from the Human which He had from the mother. By Father is here meant the Divine in Him, or which He had from conception; for this was one with the Father, as He Himself declares. It is said comparatively, because as the Lord glorified His Human so He regenerates man; that is, as He united His Divine to the Human and the Human to the Divine, so He conjoins the internal to the external and the external to the internal, with man. But, because this arcanum cannot be explained to the apprehension in a few words, therefore let the reader consult and see what has been shown concerning it in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem and in Arcana Coelestia; in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem 280-297; and in Arcana Coelestia, in the passages thence cited, ibid., n. 185, 298-307.

116. THE SUN IN HEAVEN.

In heaven neither the sun of the world, nor anything from that sun, is seen, because it is wholly natural. For nature has its beginning from that sun, and whatever is produced by means of it is called natural. But the spiritual, to which heaven belongs, is above nature and wholly distinct from what is natural; and there is no communication between the two except by correspondences. What the distinction between them is may be understood from what has been already said about degrees (38), and what the communication is from what has been said in the two preceding chapters about correspondences.