Arcana caelestia; the heavenly arcana contained in the Holy Scriptures, or Word of the Lord, unfolded, beginning with the book of Genesis: together with wonderful things seen in the world of spirits and in the heaven of angels

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The Divine principi ubi ling illi hos who have suilli in tho Lord, is love and charit and by love is inuant love to the Lord

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merit by the litora sens os the ord, halin the trullis hichappertatu to the interna sensu ; See n. 1877. Thei sphere is a Sphere of Selsi egurii ; consequently it is destructive os ali ideas Whieli 0 110 look up to them a nain os deities. The sphereos many of this Sori together has a dispersi velo ver, there belligno thing in it butium it anil hostilit sor hen ever One deSireS

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that God is ne appears frona the consideration that the subject ore reatui os is the Lord' Human Essene a belli tobe uni ted to tho Divine, o a sor it also to euom God thus, sed, ill est thum sor a God V signi fius, in the interna Sense that God is ne . 2031. 0rs 9. An God sui unto Abraham, Thou haltheemmy covenant thermore thou and thy seed afler thee, in their generations. God saluinto Abraham, ' signifies perception thou hali 009 in eo venant,' signifies union stili elo Ser se thou and thy 00d astor thoe,' signifies that si omisi in comesthe conjunction os ali ho have aith in him in thei generations V signifies hos things hiel bulon to aith. 2032. God ni iunio Abraham. That these Woriis signi syperception appear si O in the signification os God' saying in the inturna sensu os the orti as denotinit percei veri con- cerning hieli se n. 1602, 1791 1816, 1819 18 22.2033. Thou hali 009 in covenant. - That hereb is signifiei union stili closor app0ars rom the signification os aeo Venant, a deuoting union an conjunction concerning Whicli See ut OV ut ei Ses , , , and n. 5, 666 1023 103η. The repetition os the mention o the covenant in his ver8e, hichi So Osten polien O besore, denote elosor union In the his torica sense, hici has relation to braham, nothin et Se caube statud, ut that he hould 009 the eo venant; ut in liqinterna Sense, hici has relation to the Lord the historicul

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654, 24 809, 16, 1017, 1076, 1077, 1162 1176,1258, 1798,

and wil declare it that the love here Nith thou has loved me may b di them V xvii. 21 22 26 si om hicli, ords, it is evident, that the Lord, in the unionis himself,ith his Fathor hae respecto the conjunction os himself illi man kind, and that he had his at heur beeaus it Was his love for ait Onjunction is essected by love love being conjunction itsuis. Aguinin the sum Evangelist ' Because I live y shal live also. In that any shallono that Lam in the ather, arido in me an I in ov. He that ath in commandinenis, and keepe ththem, hecit is that oveth me,' xiv. 19, 20 21: honce, in likemaniter, it i evident, that the Lord, in the unionis his Human Essetice illi his Divine had respectato the conjunctionis himself,ith mankin and that this as his eud, and this his love,

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mueli Xperiene concerning those ho come in to the the lis 3. There re very many inelud in ulmoSt the reates pari stho se ho passed sor en os ingenuit in his WOrid, lio, henthe thinii that the Lord was ad man, and a n unothormati in his externa sol in and that he ussered, and that, Ot-Willi Standing, he go verit the universe instanti fili the Sphei e With scandals by reason that this as a Scandali Or tum bting

kept their thought secret aui adorei hi in illi externa Sanctity. For in the ther liso the interior aro luid operi undis remanifeste by the sphero that is thene diffused concerning

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th influxis th Infinit or Supreme Divinit liud place illi

there asin dispersion os the dirosul persuasions os salsi ty, andos the dirosul lusis os vil With Whiel the orti os spirit Was

such a dispersion ad 00n si uted manli indius have totallyperi8hed the belli go verno by spirit Doui the Lord norWas there an other methodis essectili suci dispersion, a nooperation os the Divini tympon an ' interna sensual principies a praeticable through the ration ut principio, his princi plebein sur beneath the Suproin Divinit no unito With the Humani ty. O to mention ther arcana os a stili deepernature, hieli cannot possibi bo Xpla ined to the apprehenSionos an manci See What a Suid bove n. 1676, 1990, 2016. That the Lord appears as a sui in the eaven os the celestialanget S uni as u OOn in the eave of the spiritual, and that the Sun is the celestia principi os his ove, and the oon is the Spiritua prinei pleis his love se n. 1053, 15 21 1529, 1530,1531 und that at things, even to the OS minute, ure underhi vi eW, Se n. 1274 1277.20 35. In thei generations. V That thes Word signis thethings appertaining to suilli appears rom th significationis generation and nati vitios as denotin the things hiel belongio aith concerning hieli se n. 613, 1145 1255 1 330 and that he hings hieli apportuin o love an satili are like On- sanguinities uni assinities os generations n. 685, 17.20 36. Vers 10. his is in conenant hic ye hali Deest

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nant, a denotin II conjunction, concerning hicli seu bove that in tho present case i is a tollen os conjunction, appears 1 romuli solio ing verse, Whoro it is calle a signis the covenant: ae hali cireuinci e tho est os our 1 rusti in and it hallo a Sigii of the covmnant etWeen me nil ou. V Al the externa ritus os the churuli,ere Sigiis os the covenant, and wereto e ste0med oly because they signified inturna things. Circumcisioni hicli is here troated os, a nothin et se ut representative and significative rite os hichior Nil bo uidhereaster. Neverthelossi Sueli rite throughout tho ordore calle the covenant, by rea Son that the were X terna representatives, and thus signified hings internat Things internalare hat constitute the covenant, ecause the are essective oseonjunction, Whicli things externa are noti excepti derivationi rom hos that a re internat Things externa Wore ni Sigri Sos the covenant, or tollen Os conjunction, by hiel a re membrance of internat thing might e Xeiled, and thus conjunctio might be essected by theseri concerning signSis a eo venant See bove n. 1308 Al interna things hicli are constituentos, O Venant, O Whicli essection unotion, have relation to love and chari ty, and proueed rom love and charit sor On thesetWO, Vir. the love Os the Lor above oui se lues, and tho ovem four eighbor as ursolves, han ali the in and the propheis

2039. Ever male among Ou hal be circum ei Sed. That his Sigui fies puri ty, appears rom the repreSentation and consequent signification Os circumcising in the interna Sense. Circumcision, O the euttingist is the so resti in signi sed nothingelse ut the removin and Nipiti a ny os hos things hieli obstructo an desiled heavent love, hiuli are the viis Originatiuitu lusis, particulari in the lusis os elisiove, and tho sal- sities thene derived. The reasonis his signification is bouau Seth genital Os both sexes represent eave ut love There urethre kiud os lovo whicli constitute the colestia things os the Lord' kingilom, vig. conjugal Ovo, love OWard insanis, and the love os society, O mutua love. Os at these conjuga loveis the principat for it has sor it end the greates use Vi Z. the propagation os the liuina race, and therei, os the Lord 'sa ing-

loves, is Signified by the sol eskin the cultingis os hicli, or

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and o desiluit it is, a statuit an Shewn n. 760 1307, 1308, 1321, 1594, 2045, 2057 Hene it is lain that circumcision

in the interna sense signifies puri ty That circumcision is lilyn Sign os a covenant, O Os Onjunetion may evidenti appear Doni his consideration that the circumcision os the foresti in is a thingis no consequene at ali Without the circumcision os thelieari, and that the circumcision os the eari, hi elicis purifica