{"id":11636,"date":"2016-04-24T19:04:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T23:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordstudy.newchurch.org\/?page_id=11636"},"modified":"2016-04-24T19:04:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T23:04:21","slug":"shade-shadow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/wordstudy\/bible-keywords\/shade-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Shade, Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordstudy.newchurch.org\/spiritual-glossary\/swedenborg\/\">Swedenborg<\/a> says the\u00a0sun\u2019s light represents &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wordstudy.newchurch.org\/spiritual-glossary\/divine-truth\/\">divine truth<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; the exquisite ideas that express and give form to the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordstudy.newchurch.org\/spiritual-glossary\/divine-love\/\">love that is the Lord<\/a>&#8216;s essence. \u201cShade,\u201d then, represents a <a href=\"http:\/\/wordstudy.newchurch.org\/spiritual-glossary\/spiritual\/\">spiritual<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wordstudy.newchurch.org\/spiritual-glossary\/state-spiritual-state\/\">state<\/a> in which that light is blocked (or partially blocked). Swedenborg often uses the word \u201cobscurity\u201d for this \u2013 a state in which ideas about <a href=\"http:\/\/wordstudy.newchurch.org\/spiritual-glossary\/the-lord\/\">the Lord<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wordstudy.newchurch.org\/spiritual-glossary\/life-2\/\">life<\/a> can only be understood in a vague and general way, with little in the way of color or detail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It\u2019s also interesting to note that if you\u2019re in the sunlight, a shaded area appears very dark, and it may be impossible to see objects in that shade. Swedenborg\u00a0says that\u2019s what the light of <a href=\"http:\/\/wordstudy.newchurch.org\/spiritual-glossary\/hell\/\">hell<\/a> is like \u2013 a dim light to those who live there, but complete darkness when viewed by those in the light of <a href=\"http:\/\/wordstudy.newchurch.org\/spiritual-glossary\/heaven\/\">heaven<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the opposite sense, shade can also represent protection from the glare of <a href=\"http:\/\/wordstudy.newchurch.org\/spiritual-glossary\/falsity\/\">falsity<\/a>, a mental screen of sorts that keeps a flood of hateful ideas from overwhelming us.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Passages from Swedenborg<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">AC 2367 (Elliott), AC 3384 (Elliott), AC 4531 (Elliott), AC 6015 (Elliott), AC 8764 (Elliott),; AR 110 (Rogers); AE 298[5] (Tansley, AE 481[3] (Tansley); AE 684[32] (Tansley), AE 1100[5] (Tansley)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedenborg says the\u00a0sun\u2019s light represents &#8220;divine truth&#8221; &#8212; the exquisite ideas that express and give form to the love that is the Lord&#8216;s essence. \u201cShade,\u201d then, represents a spiritual state in which that light is blocked (or partially blocked). Swedenborg often uses the word \u201cobscurity\u201d for this \u2013 a state in which ideas about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/wordstudy\/bible-keywords\/shade-shadow\/\"  class=\"more-link themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":10645,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-article.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11636","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-s","blog-style1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/wordstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/wordstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/wordstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/wordstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/wordstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/wordstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11636\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/wordstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/wordstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/wordstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/wordstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}