10282. 'Throughout your generations' means within all things of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'generations' - when the subject is the children of Israel, by whom the Church is meant - as those who belong to the Church, dealt with in 10212, and so in the abstract sense, without reference to persons, as things of the Church. This is called the abstract sense, without reference to persons, because things that are Divine and emanate from the Lord constitute the Church, not anything that is a person's own. Those things do indeed flow into and reside with the person; nevertheless they do not become the person's own, only the Lord's residing with that person. This being so, when angels talk to one another they speak of things without reference to actual persons. Neither therefore does the name of some person mentioned in the Word pass into heaven, but the reality that is meant by that person.

All names of persons and places mentioned in the Word serve to mean spiritual realities, see 1888, 4442, 5095, 5225.

Names do not pass into heaven, 1876, 6516, 10216.

5565. There are spirits too who correlate with the bones that are much harder, such as the teeth; but I have not been allowed to know very much about these. All I have been allowed to know is that when these spirits, with whom scarcely any spiritual life at all remains, are brought into view in the light of heaven, they do not appear to possess a face, only teeth instead of a face. This is because the face represents a person's interiors, thus his spiritual and celestial endowments, which are matters of faith and charity. Spirits therefore who during their lifetime did not acquire any such spiritual life have the kind of appearance that has just been described.