Arcana Coelestia volume 7 - Swedenborg Foundation

ARCANA COELESTIA 4071they find it nowhere, those who are being regenerated come back,and in freedom choose to be led by the Lord in their willing andthinking. They are then informed that they will receive an own thatis heavenly, such as angels have, and with this own, also blessednessand happiness to eternity.[3] As regards the own that is heavenly, this comes forth from thenew will that is given by the Lord, and differs from the man’s ownin the fact that they who have it no longer regard themselves ineach and all things they do, and in each and all things they learn orteach; but they then have regard to the neighbor, the public, thechurch, the Lord’s kingdom, and thereby to the Lord himself. It isthe ends of life that are changed. The ends that look to lowerthings, that is, to self and the world, are removed, and ends thatlook to higher things are substituted in their place. The ends of lifeare nothing else than the man’s life itself, for they are his very willand loves, because what a man loves he wills and has for his end.He who is gifted with an own that is heavenly is also in quietudeand in peace; for he trusts in the Lord, and believes that nothing ofevil will reach him, and knows that lusts will not infest him. Andbesides, they who are in the heavenly own are in freedom itself; forto be led by the Lord is freedom, because they are led in good, bygood, to good. From this it is evident that they are in blessednessand happiness, for there is nothing that disturbs them, nothing ofthe love of self, consequently nothing of enmity, hatred, andrevenge; nor is there anything of the love of the world,consequently nothing of fraud, of fear, of unrest.5661. We know not who put our silver in our bags. That thissignifies nonbelief, from ignorance of the source of truth in theexterior natural, is evident from the signification of “not knowing”as being in the spiritual sense not believing or nonbelief; from thesignification of “who put” as being ignorance from what source;from the signification of “silver” as being truth (see n. 5658); andfrom the signification of a “bag” as being the exterior natural (n.5497).