Higher Meanings

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Web Name: Higher Meanings

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(such as words or phrases) are meaningless without some association with contexts (such as definitions). The contexts give the symbol its meaning. A word can be used in a number of contextsthat correspond to its obvious, literal sense. How high a meaning is depends on theimportance, or value, of its context. In order to measure the relative height of corresponding meanings we need to agree upon avalue scale. Of course that is impossible. Not everyone can agree on what is of most value. However, we can be more objective if we take a global view and consider what is most important to the welfare of the largest number of people. Better yet, let's take a cosmic view. The Creator of heaven and earth set the values by creating a universal heaven composed of angelic humans from all globes. The context values thus proposed in descending order of heightare as follows: o God in the highest.o Next, that which relates to conjunction with Him in heavenly love.o Then that which relates to His angels in mutual love.o That which relates to human society in the spiritual world.o That which relates to human society in the naturalworld .o That which relates to the human mind and those who develop it.o That which relates to the human body and to those who staybound to it. What do we mean by correspondence ? The term correspondence of two symbolic meanings is used frequentlyin this Higher Meaning web site and generally refers to the mutual symmetry, harmony, correlation, and communication of the symbolic contexts. For more discussion on definitions of correspondence please see thefollowing: o Emanuel Swedenborg, Teachings about Correspondences,from The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine Index.o ANC Anthology, Bringing Correspondences Into the Curriculum, under the subtopicof DEFINITIONS of correspondence.o Browse the Papers button on the navigation bar. All the books and essays have some reference to correspondence(s). That web page also has a search engine.

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