The Most Important Teachings About Order
By Rev. Prescott A. Rogers
And God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. (Genesis 1:31).
1. All order is from the Lord.
2. It exists in all of creation, spiritual and natural.
3. Disorder is the perversion of order, and it exists in hell and in the world.
4. Order is a matter of essence, having to do with love and wisdom, and of form.
Arcana Coelestia #48
48. From these considerations it is now clear that the fifth state is one in which a person speaks from faith which is part of the understanding and in so doing confirms himself in truth and good; and that what he produces at that point are the animate things called 'the fish of the sea and the birds of the air. 1 It is also clear that the sixth state exists when he utters truths and performs good deeds from faith which is part of the understanding and so from love which is part of the will. What he produces at that point is called a living creature and a beast. And because at that point he begins to act both from faith and from love simultaneously, he becomes a spiritual man, who is called an image; and this is dealt with next.
Footnotes:
1. literally, birds of the heavens (or the skies)