From this I could see that
in the Word numbers as well as words signify things. What the simple
numbers signify, as 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, and what the
compound numbers, as 20, 30, 50, 70, 100, 144, 1000, 10,000, 12,000,
and others, may be seen in the Arcana Celestia, where they are
treated of. In this writing in heaven, a number is always prefixed on
which those following in a series depend as on their subject; for
that number is as it were an index to the matter treated of, and from
it is the determination of the numbers that follow to the particular
point.
{Footnote 1} All numbers in the Word signify things (n. 482,
487, 647, 648, 755, 813, 1963, 1988, 2075, 2252, 3252, 4264,
6470, 6175, 9488, 9659, 10217, 10253). Shown from heaven (n.
4495, 5265). Composite numbers have the same signification as
the simple numbers from which they result by multiplication (n.
5291, 5335, 5708, 7973). The most ancient people possessed
heavenly arcana expressed in numbers forming a kind of
computation of states of the church (n. 575).
264. Those who know nothing about heaven, and who are unwilling to
have any other idea of it than as of something purely atmospherical,
in which the angels fly about as intellectual minds, having no sense
of hearing or seeing, are unable to conceive that the angels have
speech and writing; for they place the existence of everything real
in what is material; and yet the writings in heaven have as real an
existence as those in the world, and the angels there have everything
that is useful for life and useful for wisdom.
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