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176 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 209.
gether with two, who, nevertheless, persisted in climbing up,
although our Lord was not with them. I said that this could
not be done, and then went up before them; I had a rope
and pulled, and I then perceived that there was something
beneath which pulled strongly against me, and at last I saw
that it was a man against whom I struggled, and whom I
thus brought up. I was glad then and told them it was as
I had said.– The signification of this I think is, that gold
means that which is good ;* that aurum (gold), consequently,
is that which is good and well-pleasing to God ; in order to
receive it we must climb up to Him, and this does not lie in
our power, even though we suppose that we are able to do it
from our own strength ; we then also find that there is some
one who pulls strongly in an opposite direction ; but ultimately
the victory is gained through God’s grace.‡
68. After this I was for a long time in the same thought,
which gradually appeared in a reddish light; by which was
signified the presence of God’s grace in that thought. The
sum and substance of this was, that we must really do what
is good and execute it with God’s grace and in the faith
granted by God,** and that this is what is meant by making
gold; for in that case we receive from our Lord every
thing that we need, and what is useful to us. This was
represented to me very powerfully, viz. that that which is good
must be carried into effect, and that in this lay [the meaning
of gold.
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