Heaven and Hell (Harley) n. 127

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127. The light of heaven is not a natural light like that of the world, but a spiritual light because it is from the Lord as a Sun, and that Sun is the Divine Love, as shown in the previous section. That which goes forth from the Lord as a Sun is called in the heavens Divine Truth although in essence it is Divine Good united to Divine Truth. From this the angels have light and heat, light from Divine Truth, and heat from Divine Good. So, it can be confirmed from this that the light of heaven from such a source is spiritual and not natural, likewise the heat.# # All light in the heavens is from the Lord as a Sun (n. 1053, 1521, 3195, 3341, 3636, 3643, 4415, 9548, 9684, 10809). The Divine truth going forth from the Lord appears in heaven as light, and supplies all the light of heaven (n. 3195, 3222, 3223, 5400, 8644, 9399, 9548, 9684).


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