6685. 'For they are full of life' means that it has spiritual life within it. This is clear from the meaning of 'having life' as spiritual life, dealt with in 5890, in this instance spiritual life within things belonging to the Church, which are meant by 'the Hebrew women'. What spiritual life is has been stated a number of times already; but since few at the present day know what the spiritual is, let a further brief explanation be given of what this is. In its first origin the spiritual is Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Human. That Truth has Divine Good within it, because Divine Truth comes from the Lord's Divine Human, which is Divine Good. This Divine Truth which has Divine Good within it is the spiritual itself in origin, and is the actual life that fills heaven, indeed that fills all creation. Where there is a subject,^a there it flows in; yet it is different within each subject, depending on the form the subject takes. Within subjects in harmony with good it establishes spiritual life, but within subjects out of harmony with good it establishes the opposite of spiritual life, which in the Word is called 'death'. From this one may now see what spiritual life is, namely being in possession of truths rooted in good which come from the Lord.

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