597. And his feet as pillars of fire.- That this signifies Divine Truth or the Word in ultimates, which is natural, sustaining the interior things therein, also full of the good of love, is evident from the signification of feet, when used in reference to the Lord, as denoting the Divine Good of natural Divine Love, which is the ultimate in Divine order (see above, n. 65, 69); and from the signification of pillars, as denoting lower truths which sustain the higher (see also above, n. 219); and from the signification of fire, when used in reference to the Lord, as denoting the Divine Love (see also above, n. 68, 496, 504). From these things it is evident, that by the feet of the angel seen as pillars of fire, is signified the Divine Truth, or the Word in its ultimates, which, as the natural sustaining the interior things therein, is full of the good of love. Divine Truth in the ultimates means the Word in the sense of the letter; and because this sense is natural, and the Natural is the ultimate of Divine order, therefore it sustains spiritual and celestial Divine Truth, just as pillars sustain a house, and as the feet, sustain the body. For without the natural sense of the Word, interior things, which are spiritual and celestial, would fall to ruin, as a house if its pillars were removed. Therefore all things, even to the most minute details contained in the ultimate, or natural sense of the Word, are perpetual correspondences, that is, they correspond to spiritual and celestial things in the heavens, and therefore are also significative of them. It may, in some degree, be evident from this fact, how the natural Divine Truth, which is the Word in the world, sustains the spiritual and celestial Divine Truth, which is the Divine Truth in heaven, as pillars support a house. It is therefore evident, why the feet of the angel were seen as pillars of fire.