Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 6410

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6410. 'And he will yield a king's delights' means the pleasure that truth provides. This is clear from the meaning of 'delights' as pleasure, and from the meaning of 'a king' as truth, dealt with in 1672, 1728, 2015, 2069, 3009, 4575, 4581, 4966, 5044, 6148, so that 'yielding a king's delights' is the pleasure that truth provides. Reference is made to both - to the enjoyment that good gives and the pleasure that truth provides - on account of the heavenly marriage present in every detail of the Word, 6343. The enjoyment that good gives and the pleasure that truth provides, which constitute the blessedness known in heaven, do not consist in having nothing to do but in being active. For the enjoyment and pleasure that consist in having nothing to do turn into the absence of enjoyment or pleasure, whereas the enjoyment and pleasure that consist in being active are lasting, constantly uplifting, and creative of blessedness. The activity engaged in by those in heaven consists in performing useful services - which for them is the enjoyment that good gives - and in gaining, with those services in view, a wise understanding of truths, which for them is the pleasure that truth provides.


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