Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg Foundation

HEAVEN AND HELL 93
corresponds to light, and in the spiritual sense light is faith. 88
And the Lord appears before the eyes because the interiors,
which belong to the mind, see through the eyes, from good of
love through the right eye, and from good of faith through the
left eye; 89
since with angels and also with men all things at the
right correspond to good from which truth is derived, and all
at the left to truth that is from good. 90
Good of faith is in its
essence truth from good.
119. This is why in the Word the Lord in respect to love is
likened to the sun, and in respect to faith to the moon; also
that the “sun” signifies love from the Lord to the Lord, and the
“moon” signifies faith from the Lord in the Lord, as in the
following passages:
The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the
light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days (Isa.
30:26).
And when I shall extinguish thee I will cover the heavens and
make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and
the moon shall not make her light to shine. All luminaries of light
in the heavens will I make dark over thee, and I will set darkness
upon thy land (Ezek. 32:7, 8).
88. “Fire” in the Word signifies love, both in a good sense and in a bad
sense (n. 934, 4906, 5215).
Holy or heavenly fire signifies the Divine Love (n. 934, 6314, 6832).
Infernal fire signifies love of self and of the world and every lust of those
loves (n. 1861, 5071, 6314, 6832, 7575, 10747).
Love is the fire of life and life itself is really from it (n. 4906, 5071,
6032, 6314).
“Light” signifies the truth of faith (n. 3195, 3485, 3636, 3643, 3993,
4302, 4413, 4415, 9548, 9684).
89. The sight of the left eye corresponds to truths of faith, and the sight
of the right eye to their goods (n. 4410, 6923).
90. The things on man’s right have relation to good from which is
truth, and those on his left to truth from good (n. 9495, 9604).