912. 'And the city was pure gold like unto pure glass' signifies that consequently everything of that Church is the good of love inflowing together with light out of heaven from the Lord. By 'the city', or Jerusalem, is understood the Lord's New Church as to everything thereof regarded interiorly, or inside the wall. By 'gold' is signified the good of love from the Lord, concerning which [something] follows; and by 'like unto pure glass' is signified being transparent by virtue of Divine Wisdom, and because this appears in heaven as light and inflows from the Lord as the Sun, by 'like unto pure glass' is signified inflowing together with light out of heaven from the Lord. It has been shown above (n. 908) that all the things of heaven and the Church are derived from the good of love, and the good of love is derived from the Lord. Now it is said here that the city was seen as 'pure glass', by which is signified that everything of the New Church, which is the New Jerusalem, is the good of love from the Lord; but because the good of love is not given on its own or alienated from the truths of wisdom, but so that the good of love may exist it must be formed, and it is formed by means of the truths of wisdom, therefore it is here said 'pure gold like unto pure glass'. For the good of love without the truths of wisdom does not have any quality, because there is no form, and its form is in accordance with its truths in their own order and connection inflowing together with the good of love from the Lord, thus in a man in accordance with the reception. It is said 'in a man', but it is understood not as 'of the man' but as 'of the Lord in him'. From these considerations it is now plain that by 'the city was pure gold like unto pure glass' is signified that consequently everything of that Church is the good of love inflowing together with light out of heaven from the Lord.