Apocalypse Explained, volume 1 - Swedenborg Foundation

APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED 367reception, because all intelligence and wisdom are from Divinetruths according to the perception of them and their reception inthe life. To see truths, and to see what they are, is of perception;and to live according to them is of reception; and according toperception and reception there is intelligence and wisdom.Intelligence and wisdom which are not from Divine truths, butfrom worldly things only, are not intelligence and wisdom butmerely knowledge (scientia) and thence a faculty to reason; forintelligence is seeing inwardly in oneself whether a thing be true ornot; but they who are wise from worldly things only do not seetruths inwardly in themselves, but from others; and to see fromothers is merely to know (scire); and such things come no fartherunder the mind’s vision than that they may he confirmed. In such astate are most persons at this day within the church who make faithalone, separate from life, to be saving; consequently truths do notenter into their spirit, but merely into the memory of the naturalman; and yet the light of heaven, which is Divine truth, can enterby no other way with man than by the way of his spirit which isalso the way of his soul; and man’s spirit is such as his life is, butnot such as his memory apart from his life is; and the light ofheaven enters into man’s spirit when he is in the good of love andof charity from the Lord, and when he is in that good he is also infaith. (That man has no faith where there is no love or charity, seein the small work on the Last Judgment, n. 33–40. Moreover, whattrue intelligence is, what spurious, and what false, see in the workon Heaven and Hell, n. 346–356.)199. And I will not blot his name out of the book of life, signifiesthat they will be in heaven because they are fitted for it. This isevident from the signification of “name,” as being the quality ofman’s state of life (see above, n. 148); and from the signification of“the book of life,” as being heaven (of which presently); therefore,“not to blot his name out of the book of life” signifies that they willbe in heaven because their state in respect to love and faith is such,thus because they are fitted for heaven. “The book of life” signifiesheaven, because a man who is in the love to the Lord and faith inHim is a heaven in least form, and this heaven of man correspondsto heaven in the greatest form; therefore he who has heaven inhimself also comes into heaven, for he is fitted for it. (That there is