Heaven and Hell: The Portable New Century Edition

78 HEAVEN and HELL §137

p. Divine truth emanating from the Lord is the only thing that is real: 6880 , 7004 , 8200. By

means of divine truth all things were made and created: 2803 , 2884 , 5272 , 7835 [ 7796 ].

q. [Swedenborg’s note at this point refers the reader back to the note in § 107 above.]

and the divine warmth that is divine good, the source from which heaven

comes into being and consequently the world as well, since as we have

shown above, it is through heaven that the world comes into being?

This enables us to determine how to understand the statement that

all things were made by means of the Word, and that without him noth-

ing was made that was made, and further that the world was made by

means of him, namely, that this was accomplished by means of divine

truth from the Lord.p

This is also why in the Book of Creation it fi rst mentions light and

then the things that arise from light (Genesis 1 : 3 , 4 ). It is also why every-

thing in all heaven and earth has to do with what is good and true and to

their union if it is to be anything at all.q

139 It should be realized that the divine good and divine truth that come

from the Lord as the sun in the heavens are not in the Lord but are from

him. All that is in the Lord is divine love, which is the reality from which

divine good and truth become manifest. Becoming manifest from reality

is what “emanating” means. This too can be illustrated by comparison

with our world’s sun. The warmth and light in our world are not in the

sun but are from it. In the sun there is nothing but fire, and warmth and

light become manifest and emanate from it.

140 Since the Lord as the sun is divine love, and divine love is the essen-
tial divine good, the divine that emanates from him—his divine nature
in heaven—is called divine truth for the sake of clarity, even though it is
divine good united to divine truth. This divine truth is what is called
“the holy” that emanates from him.

The Four Quarters in Heaven

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HERE are four quarters in heaven just as there are in the world—east,

south, west, and north. These are determined in each world by its sun,

in heaven by heaven’s sun, which is the Lord, and on earth by earth’s sun.