4735. [4737] CONCERNING REPRESENTATION IN THE OTHER LIFE: CONCERNING COPPER. There was a certain one [Swab] who had thought a great deal, during the life of the body, concerning copper. When he defended himself against the evil, the ideas about copper which were with him were changed into an inverted hollow caldron, which seemed to them to project over the. Hence, those who were enclosed were not able to do the slightest thing against hi. [When] he marveled whence this happened, it was granted to say, that copper signifies natural good; and it is hence, [namely] because such things are representative in the other life: hence they who are in natural goods have their representative, and, then, they Who are in opposition to natural good can effect nothing. they who are in natural good are in an interior sphere; nor do they see any copper vessel, but yet such an appearance then takes place. Hence also, it was granted to tell him how it is in the Word, that where copper is mentioned natural good is meant, and similarly with everything else, yea with every word there, to which not any writing is equal - as also when bread is mentioned in the Lord's prayer: when man devoutly reads those words, the angels then perceive the good of love, because, namely, love is that heavenly bread itself. So with the rest.