Apocalypse Explained, volume 1 - Swedenborg Foundation

APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED 304the Lord in respect to the Divine human and the Divine truthproceeding therefrom; “the house of God” is his kingdom and thechurch; “glory” is Divine truth as it is in heaven; “to come by theway of the east into the house” means from the sun, where it iscontinually in its morning. (That “glory” is Divine truth as it is inheaven, see Arcana Coelestia, n. 4809, 5922, 8267, 8427, 9429;that “the house of God” is heaven and the church in respect togood, and “temple” is the same in respect to truth, n. 3720; andthat the “east,” in the highest sense, is the Lord, because he is thesun of heaven, which is always in its rising and morning,consequently the “east” is the good of love from him, see n. 3708,5097, 9668.)[7] In the same:The angel afterwards brought me back to the entrance of thehouse, where behold, waters issuing out from under the threshold of thehouse towards the east, they shall descend into the plain and cometowards the sea, being sent forth into the sea that the waters may behealed; whence it comes to pass that every living soul that creeps,whithersoever the rivers come, shall live, whence there are exceedingmany fishes, because these waters shall come thither, and they arehealed, that everything may live whither the river shall come (Ezek.47:1, 8–9).Here also, the influx of the Lord from his Divine human with thosewho are of his kingdom and church is described by purecorrespondences. By “waters issuing out from under the thresholdof the house towards the east,” Divine truth proceeding from theLord and flowing in with those that are in the east, that is, that arein the good of love to him, is described. “The waters shall descendinto the plain” and “into the sea,” and “thereby the waters of thesea are healed,” signifies influx into the natural man and into theknowledges which are therein; the “fishes therefrom” signifies manytruths in the natural man; that “everything shall live whither theriver shall come” signifies that they should have life from Divinetruth. That such things are hereby signified there, no one can seeexcept from the internal sense of the Word, yet every singleexpression therein involves arcana of man’s regeneration by theLord; but what is involved in each expression here will be disclosed