eneral corresponding to
their good, the particular things inside of a house to the various
things of which their good consists,{1} and the things outside to
truths derived from good, and also to their perceptions and
knowledges {2} and as these things correspond to the goods and truths
they have from the Lord they correspond to their love, and to their
wisdom and intelligence from love, since love belongs to good, wisdom
to good and truth together, and intelligence to truth from good.
These are what the angels perceive when they behold what is around
them, and thus their minds are more delighted and moved by them than
their eyes.

{Footnote 1} "Houses," with their contents, signify the things
in man that belong to his mind, thus his interiors (n. 710,
2233, 2331, 2559, 3128, 3538, 4973, 5023, 6639, 6690, 7353,
7848, 7910, 7929, 9150); consequently the things relating to
good and truth (n. 2233, 2331, 2559, 4982, 7848, 7929). "Rooms"
and "bed-chambers" signify interior things there (n. 3900,
5694, 7353). The "roof of a house" signifies what is inmost (n.
3652, 10184). A "house of wood" signifies what relates to good,
and a "house of stone" what relates to truth (n. 3720).

{Footnote 2} 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).

187. This makes clear why the Lord called Himself the temple at
Jerusalem (John 2:19, 21),{1} namely, because the temple represented
His Divine Human; also why the New Jerusalem was seen to be of pure
gold, its gates of pearls, and its foundations of precious stones
(Apoc. 21), namely, because the New Jerusalem signifies the church
which was afterwards to be established, the twelve gates its truths
leading to good, and the foundations the truths on which the church
is founded.{2}

{Footnote 1} In the highest sense "the house of God" signifies
the Lord's Divine Human in respect to Divine good, and "the
temple" the same in respect to Divine truth; and in a relative
sense, heaven and the church in respect to good and truth (n.
3720)