121. 'And I will give him a little white stone' signifies truths favouring and united to good. 'A little white stone' has this signification because in trials votes used to be collected by means of little stones, and those that were affirmative by the white ones. Confirming truths are what are signified because white' is predicated of truths (n. 167, 379). Consequently by 'a little white stone' truths favouring good are signified, and those also united to good, because good summons them and unites them to itself. For every good loves truth and conjoins with itself such a truth as is in agreement, especially the good of celestial love: this unites the truth to itself in such a manner that they may altogether make a one. As a result they [who are in such good] see truths from good alone. These are understood by those who have the law inscribed on their hearts, of whom [it is said] in Jeremiah:-
I will put My law in the midst of them, and I will write it upon their heart; and they shall teach no more everyone his companion, or everyone his brother, saying, Know Jehovah, for they shall all know Me Jer. xxxi 33, 34.
Such are all who are in the third heaven. They do not speak of truths out of any memory, but see them clearly while they hear others speaking of them, especially while they are reading the Word. This is because they are in the marriage itself of good and truth. Such do they become in the world, who have approached the Only Lord and done good works because they are in accordance with the truths of the Word; concerning whom some particulars may be seen in the work CONCERNING HEAVEN AND HELL (n. 25, 26, 270, 271).
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