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Heaven and its Wonders and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg
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3002, 3225).

{Footnote 2} Trees signify perceptions and knowledges (n. 103,
2163, 2682, 2722, 2972, 7692). For this reason the ancient
people held Divine worship in groves under trees according to
their correspondence (n. 2722, 4552). Influx of heaven into
subjects of the vegetable kingdom, as into trees and plants (n.
3648).

{Footnote 3} From correspondence foods signify such things as
nourish the spiritual life (n. 3114, 4459, 4792, 4976, 5147,
5293, 5340, 5342, 5410, 5426, 5576, 5582, 5588, 5655, 5915,
6277, 8562, 9003).

{Footnote 4} Bread signifies every good that nourishes the
spiritual life of man (n. 2165, 2177, 3478, 3735, 3813, 4211,
4217, 4735, 4976, 9323, 9545, 10686). Such was the
signification of the loaves that were on the table in the
tabernacle (n. 3478, 9545). Sacrifices in general were called
bread (n. 2165). Bread includes all food (n. 2165). Thus it
signifies all heavenly and spiritual food (n. 276, 680, 2165,
2177, 3478, 6118, 8410).


112. How conjunction of heaven with the world is effected by means of
correspondences shall also be told in a few words. The Lord's kingdom
is a kingdom of ends, which are uses; or what is the same thing, a
kingdom of uses which are ends. For this reason the universe has been
so created and formed by the Divine that uses may be every where
clothed in such a way as to be presented in act, or in effect, first
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