(HH) - Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell - From Things Heard and Seen

HH 176

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176. To show what the things are that appear to the angels in accordance with correspondences, I will here mention one only for the sake of illustration. By those who are intelligent, gardens and parks full of trees and flowers of every kind are seen. The trees are planted in a most beautiful order, combined to form arbors with arched approaches and encircling walks, all more beautiful than words can describe. There the intelligent walk, and gather flowers and weave garlands with which they adorn little children. Moreover, there are kinds of trees and flowers there that are never seen and cannot exist on earth. The trees bear fruit that are in accordance with the good of love, in which the intelligent are. These things are seen by them because a garden or park and fruit trees and flowers correspond to intelligence and wisdom.# That there are such things in heaven is known also on the earth, but only to those who are in good, and who have not extinguished in themselves the light of heaven by means of natural light and its fallacies; for when such think about heaven they think and say that there are such things there as ear hath not heard and eye hath not seen.
# A "garden" or "park" signifies intelligence and wisdom (n. 100, 108, 3220).
What is meant by "the garden of Eden" and "the garden of Jehovah" (n. 99, 100, 1588).
How magnificent the things seen in parks are in the other life (n. 1122, 1622, 2296, 4528, 4529).
"Trees" signify perceptions and knowledges, from which wisdom and intelligence are derived (n. 103, 2163, 2682, 2722, 2972, 7692).
"Fruits" signify goods of love and goods of charity (n. 3146, 7690, 9337).

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