10190. 'You shall make [them] on its two sides' means with good lying in the other, that is to say, a joining together with it and preservation by means of it. This is clear from what has been stated and shown immediately above in 10189. From what has been stated there it may also be seen what the surrounding Divine sphere is like, namely that it is a sphere of the good of love derived from the Lord as the sun, extending from the east through to the west, and a sphere of truth springing from good, extending from the south to the north. Thus the sphere of Divine Good in the middle is a kind of axis, with a sphere of Divine Truth emanating from that Good on both sides, on the right and on the left.

3356. The reason 'a quake' means an alteration of state is that a quake occurs within the space-time continuum, and in the next life there is no concept of space and time, but instead of these the concept of state. In the next life it does indeed appear as though all things exist within space and follow one another in a time-sequence, but in themselves they are alterations of state, for space and time there are the products of these. This is very well known to all spirits, even evil ones, who by means of alterations of state effected in others cause them to appear somewhere other than where they in fact are. Man too is able to know of this from the fact that insofar as his state is one of affection and therefore of joy, or insofar as it is one of thought and therefore of withdrawal from the body, he is outside time. For while such a state lasts, many hours seem to him to be as scarcely one hour. The reason for this is that states belong to his internal man, which is his spirit, to which states intervals of space and periods of time in the external man correspond. 'A quake' therefore, being one of the consecutive events that occur within space and time, in the internal sense means an alteration of state.