[See WE 5088, explaining Exod. 29:36-37; specifically, what eating with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob means.] 5089. This spiritual eating is what is called eating and drinking with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of the Heavens [Matt. 8:11]. For as Abraham represents the first, Isaac the second, and Jacob the third class of the blessed in the Kingdom of the Heavens, it is understood what eating with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob symbolizes:

5090. namely, that this spiritual eating may ascend step by step. For they who are in the innermost regions love all in the whole world on account of their belief in God the Messiah, being moved by His love, so that they do not regard, with feeling, the love of themselves, or of their own families, except as a love below them, which they therefore put aside: these are called the children of Abraham. One who does not feel this in himself, but is touched by the love of those who are his own, which arises from the love of oneself, such a one is not in the innermost regions. About this matter it was granted me to speak with those who * This sign is a circle with a dot in the center.