7355. 'And into the house of your servants, and of your people' means everything in the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'the house' as a person's mind the natural mind since it is used in reference to the Egyptians and Pharaoh's servants (for the meaning of 'house' as the mind, see just above in 7353); and from the meaning of 'Pharaoh's servants and people' as everything in the natural. Things present in the natural which serve to substantiate falsities are called 'servants'; and for the use of 'people' to refer to truths, or in the contrary sense falsities, see 1259, 1260, 3295, 3581, 4619, 6451, 6465. From all this it is evident that 'into the house of your (Pharaoh's) servants and people' means into everything in the natural.

6314. As it is with light, so it is with the heat that is vital to a person's existence. In no way at all does that vital heat originate in the heat radiated by the sun in the world; rather, it originates in spiritual heat, which is love and radiates from the Lord. This heat is what angels have. Consequently the amount of vital heat a person has is determined by the amount of love he has. His body however is warmed by worldly heat, as is his sensory awareness within it; yet vital heat flows into that worldly heat and imparts life to it. Differences in the purity and intensity of this heat are akin to variations in the clarity of the light. This vital heat is what one should understand by the holy fires mentioned in the Word, and therefore heavenly loves are meant by those fires. But in a contrary sense that worldly heat is what one should understand by the fires of hell, and therefore hellish loves and the desires that go with them are meant when these fires are mentioned in the Word.