1672. And the kings that were with him. That this signifies the apparent truth which is of that good, is evident from the signification of “kings” in the Word. “Kings,” “kingdoms,” and “peoples,” in the historical and the prophetical parts of the Word, signify truths and the things which are of truths, as may be abundantly confirmed. In the Word an accurate distinction is made between a “people” and a “nation;” by a “people” are signified truths, and by a “nation” goods, as before shown (n. 1259, 1260). “Kings” are predicated of peoples, but not so much of nations. Before the sons of Israel sought for kings, they were a nation, and represented good, or the celestial; but after they desired a king, and received one, they became a people, and did not represent good or the celestial, but truth or the spiritual; which was the reason why this was imputed to them as a fault (see 1 Samuel 8:7-22, concerning which subject, of the Lord’s Divine mercy elsewhere). As Chedorlaomer is named here, and it is added, “the kings that were with him,” both good and truth are signified; by “Chedorlaomer,” good, and by “the kings,” truth. But what was the quality of the good and truth at the beginning of the Lord’s temptations has already been stated.

307. The Lord in heaven. The Lord is seen in heaven as a sun or a moon-as a sun by people in the heavenly kingdom and as a moon by people in the spiritual kingdom: 1053, 1521, 1529, 1530, 1531, 3636, 3641, 4321, 5097, 7078, 7083, 7173, 7270, 8812, 10809. The light that radiates from the Lord as the sun is divine truth, the source of all intelligence and wisdom for angels: 1053, 1521-1533, 2776, 3138, 3195, 3222, 3223, 3225, 3339, 3341, 3636, 3643, 3993, 4180, 4302, 4415, 5400, 9399, 9407, 9548, 9571, 9684. The warmth that radiates from the Lord as the sun is divine goodness, the source of the love that angels have: 3338, 3636, 3643, 5215. The Lord's divinity as it is in itself is far above his divinity as it is present in heaven: 7270, 8760. Divine truth is not in the Lord but emanates from him, just as light is not in the sun but emanates from it: 3969. The underlying reality exists within the Lord, and the manifestation of it comes from the Lord: 3938. The Lord is the one center toward which all the angels in heaven turn: 3633, 9828, 10130, 10189. Still, angels do not turn themselves toward the Lord; rather, the Lord turns them toward himself (10189), because angels do not make themselves present with the Lord; the Lord makes himself present with the angels (9415). The Lord's presence with angels depends on how receptive they are to the goodness of love and of caring that come from him: 904, 4198, 4206, 4211, 4320, 6832, 7042, 8819, 9680, 9682, 9683, 10106. The Lord is present with everyone in heaven and also everyone in hell: 2706. Because of his divine love, the Lord wants to lead everyone toward himself in heaven: 6645. The Lord is constantly engaged in an effort to join with us, but his inflowing and his joining with us are impeded by our own loves: 2041, 2053, 2411, 5696.

[2] The Lord's divine humanity flows into heaven and constitutes it; those in heaven are joined not to the divinity itself but to the divine humanity: 3038, 4211, 4724, 5663. Further, the divine humanity flows through and out of heaven to be with us: 9706. The Lord is everything to heaven and is the life of heaven: 7211, 9128. The Lord dwells with angels in what is his own: 9338, 10125, 10151, 10157. Therefore those who are in heaven are in the Lord: 3637, 3638. Heaven corresponds to the Lord's divine humanity, and a human being in every detail corresponds to heaven, so heaven taken as a whole is like one individual and is therefore called "the universal human": 2988, 2996, 3624-3649, 3741-3745, 4625. The Lord is the only true human being, and we become human only if we become receptive to what is divine from him: 1894. The more receptive we are to the Lord, the more we become images of the Lord: 8547. Angels are embodiments of love and caring in human form, a quality that they get from the Lord: 3804, 4735, 4797, 4985, 5199, 5530, 9879, 10177.