120 HEAVEN and HELL §231
c. On the correspondence of the hands, arms, and shoulders with the universal human or heaven:
4931 – 4937. Hands and arms in the Word mean power: 878 , 3091 , 4931 – 4932 [ 4932 – 4933 ], 6947 ,
10017 [ 10019 ].
d. All power in the heavens is a property of truth from good, and therefore of faith from love:
3091 , 3563 , 6413 [ 6423 ], 8304 , 9643 , 10019 , 10182. All power comes from the Lord, since he is the
source of everything true that constitutes faith and everything good that constitutes love: 9327 ,
9410. This power is meant by the keys given to Peter: 6344. It is divine truth emanating from the
Lord that possesses all power: 6948 , 8200. This power of the Lord is what is meant by “sitting at
the right of Jehovah”: 3387 , 4592 , 4933 , 7518 , 7673 , 8281 , 9133. “The right” is power: 10019.
e. Eyes correspond to truths from good: 4403 – 4421 , 4523 – 4534 , 6923.
f. Falsity from evil has no power because truth from good has it all: 6784 , 10481.the whole body expresses its powers through them. This is why “arms”
and “hands” in the Word mean power.c
Sometimes a bare arm appears in heaven that has so much power
that it could crush any obstacle, even if it were a boulder on earth. Once
it moved toward me, and I saw that it could crush my bones to powder.232 It may be seen in §^137 above that all power belongs to the divine
truth that emanates from the Lord and that angels are powers to the
extent that they accept divine truth from the Lord. However, angels are
open to divine truth to the extent that they are open to divine good,
since all the power that truths have comes from good. Truths apart from
good have none. Further, all the power good has is by means of truth;
good has no power apart from truths. Power arises from the union of the
two. The same holds true for faith and love, since it is all the same
whether you say truth or faith, since everything that makes up faith is
true, and whether you say good or love, since everything that makes up
love is good.d
I have been able to see how much power angels have through truths
from good from the fact that when angels simply look at them, evil spir-
its fall down in a faint and no longer look human, and that this lasts until
the angel looks away. The reason this sort of thing results from the gaze
of angels is that their sight comes from the light of heaven, and heaven’s
light is divine truth (see above, §§ 126 – 132 ). Eyes correspond to truths
from good.e
233 Since all power belongs to truths from good, deliberate distortions
have none.f All the people in hell are preoccupied with deliberate distor-
tions, so they have no power against what is true and good. However, I
will be describing later the kind of power they have among each other
and the kind of power evil spirits have before they are thrown into hell.