joined
with good, or faith with love, as light is with heat in springtime on
the earth. All this makes more clear the truth set forth in its own
chapter (n. 13-19), that the Divine of the Lord in Heaven is love to
Him and charity towards the neighbor.

{Footnote 1} Truths apart from good are not in themselves
truths because they have no life; for truths have all their
life from good (n. 9603). Thus truths apart from good are like
a body without a soul (n. 3180, 9154). Truths apart from good
are not accepted by the Lord (n. 4368). What truth apart from
good, that is, what faith apart from love is, and what truth
from good or faith from love is (n. 1949-1951, 1964, 5830,
5951). It amounts to the same thing whether you say truth or
faith, or whether you say good or love, since truth is of faith
and good is of love (n. 2839, 4352, 4353, 4997, 7178, 7623,
7624, 10367).

137. It is said in John:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and God was the Word. All things were made through Him,
and without Him was not any thing made that hath been
made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
He was in the world, and the world was made through Him.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we
beheld His glory (1:1-14).

Evidently the Lord is here meant by "the Word," for it is said that
"the Word became flesh." But what is specifically meant by "the Word"
is not known and shall therefore be explained. Here "the Word" means
the Divine truth which is in the Lord and from the Lord;{1} and this
is why it is also called "the Light," which is the Divine truth, as
has been already shown in this chapter. That it was by means of
Divine truth that all things were created and made shall now be
explained. [2] In heaven Divine truth has all power, and apart from
it there is no power whatever.{2} From the Divine truth angels are
called powers, and are powers to the extent that they are recipients
or receptacles of it. By means of it they prevail over the hells and
over all that oppose them. A thousand enemies there cannot stand
against a single ray of the light of heaven, which is Divine truth.
As angels are angels by their reception of Divine truth it follows
that the entire heaven is from no other source, since heaven consists
of angels. [3] That there is such power in Divine truth those cannot
believe that have no other idea of truth tha