363. [verse g] 'After these things I saw, and behold a great crowd, which no one could number' signifies all the rest who are not of those enumerated and yet are in the New Heaven and the Lord's New Church, and who make the ultimate heaven and the external Church, of whose quality no one but the Only Lord has knowledge. That by the 'great crowd' are signified the rest who are not of those enumerated and yet are in heaven and the Lord's Church is plain from vers. 9, 10, 13-17, where it is said that they stood 'before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands' and that they 'are serving Him in His temple, and the One sitting upon the throne shall remain over them', besides more. By 'to number' in the spiritual sense is signified to have a knowledge of what quality or qualities they are. That this is signified by 'to number' will be seen in the following paragraph. But who precisely they are who are understood by those who are called 'a great crowd' cannot be known without an arcanum first being uncovered. [2] The arcanum is this: The entire heaven together with the Church on earth is as one Man before the Lord; and because it is as one Man, there are those there who constitute the head and thus the face with all its organs of the senses, and there are those there who constitute the body with all its members. So far, those have been enumerated who constitute the face with all its organs of the senses, but those who are now mentioned are they who constitute the body with all its members. That this is the case has been revealed to me, as also that those who make the first division of the tribes (verse 5) are they who correspond to the forehead as far as the eyes; that those who make the second division (verse 6) are they who correspond to the eyes together with the nostrils; the third division (verse 7) are they who correspond to the ears and cheeks; and the fourth (verse 8) are they who correspond to the mouth and tongue. [3] The Lord's Church is both internal and external. Those who are understood by 'the twelve tribes of Israel' are they who make the Lord's internal Church; whereas those who are now mentioned are they who make the external Church, but cohering as one with those enumerated above, just as lower things with higher, thus as the body with the head. The 'twelve tribes of Israel' therefore signify the higher heavens and also the internal Church, but these signify the lower heavens and the external Church. That these are also termed 'a great crowd' elsewhere may be seen below (n. 803 seq., and n. 811).