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
in heaven and afterwards in the world, thus by degrees and
successively, down to the outmost things of nature. Evidently, then,
the correspondence of natural things with spiritual things, or of the
world with heaven, is through uses, and uses are what conjoin; and
the form in which uses are clothed are correspondences and are
conjunctions just to the extent that they are forms of uses.
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