ကမ္ဘာ ဦး 1

သမ္မာကျမ်း၊၊ Judson (1835)

¹ အစအစအဦး၌ ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်သည် ကောင်းကင်ကောင်းကင်နှင့် မြေမြေကြီးကို ဖန်ဆင်းတော်မူ၏။

² မြေမြေကြီးသည်အဆင်းသဏ္ဍာန်မရှိ၊ လွတ်လပ်လ ဟာဖြစ်၏။ နက်နဲရာအရပ်ကို မှောင်မိုက်မှောင်မိုက်ဖုံးလွှမ်း၍ ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်၏ ဝိညာဉ်တော်သည် ရေရေမျက်နှာမျက်နှာပြင်ပေါ်မှာ လှုပ်ရှားတော်မူ၏။

³ ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်ကလည်း လင်းဖြစ်စေဟု အမိန့်တော်ရှိ၍ အလင်းအလင်းဖြစ်လေ၏။

⁴ ထိုအလင်းအလင်းကောင်းသည်ကို ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်မြင်မြင်၍၊ အလင်းအလင်းနှင့် မှောင်မိုက်မှောင်မိုက်ကိုပိုင်ခြားခွဲထားတော်မူ၏။

⁵ အလင်းအလင်းကို နေ့နေ့ဟူသောအမညည်ဖြင့်၎င်း၊ မှောင်မိုက်မှောင်မိုက်ကို ညညဉ့်ဟူသောအမညည်ဖြင့်၎င်း၊ ခေါ်ဝေါ်သမုတ် တော်မူ၍ ညညဦးနှင့် နံနက်နံနက်သညည် ပဌမနေ့နေ့ရက်ဖြစ်လေ၏။

⁶ တဖန်ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်က ရေရေအလယ်အလယ်၌ မိုဃ်းမျက်နှာကြက်မျက်နှာကြက်ဖြစ်စေ၊ ရေရေနှင့်ရေရေချင်းခြားနားစေဟု အမိန့်တော်ရှိသဖြင့်၊

⁷ မိုဃ်းမျက်နှာကြက်မျက်နှာကြက်ကို ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင် ဖန်ဆင်းတော်မူ၍၊ မိုဃ်းမျက်နှာကြက်မျက်နှာကြက်အောက်၌ရှိသောရေရေနှင့်၊ မိုဃ်းမျက်နှာကြက်မျက်နှာကြက်အပေါ်၌ရှိသောရေကိုရေကို ပိုင်းခြားတော်မူသည်အတိုင်းဖြစ်လေ၏။

⁸ မိုဃ်းမျက်နှာကြက်မျက်နှာကြက်ကိုလည်း မိုဃ်းကောင်းကင်ကောင်းကင်ဟူသောအမည်ဖြင့် ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်ခေါ်ဝေါ် သမုတ်တော် မူ၍၊ ညဦးနှင့် နံနက်နံနက်သည် ဒုတိယနေ့နေ့ရက်ဖြစ်လေလေ၏။

⁹ တဖန်ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်က မိုဃ်းကောင်းကင်ကောင်းကင်အောက်၌ရှိသော ရေရေစုဝေးစေ၊ ကုန်းပေါ်စေဟု အမိန့်တော် ရှိသည်အတိုင်း ဖြစ်လေလေ၏။

¹⁰ ကုန်းကိုမြေမြေဟူသော အမည်ဖြင့်၎င်း၊ ရေရေစုဝေးရာကို ပင်လယ်ပင်လယ်ဟူသောအမည်ဖြင့်၎င်း၊ ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင် ခေါ်ဝေါ်သမုတ်တော်မူ၍ ထိုအမှုအရာကောင်းသည်ကို ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်မြင်မြင်တော်မူ၏။

¹¹ တဖန် ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်က၊ မြေမြေသည် မြက်ပင်မြက်ပင်ကို၎င်း၊ စပါးသီးကို ဖြစ်စေသော စပါးပင်ကို၎င်း၊ မြေမြေပေါ် မှာ မျိုးစေ့ပါလျက် သစ်သီးမျိုးကို ဖြစ်စေသော သစ်ပင်သစ်ပင်ကို၎င်း၊ ပေါက်စေဟု အမိန့်တော်ရှိသည် အတိုင်း ဖြစ်လေ၏။

¹² မြေမြေသည်မြက်ပင်မြက်ပင်ကို၎င်း စပါးသီးမျိုးကို ဖြစ်စေသော စပါးပင်ကို၎င်း၊ မိမိ၌ မျိုးစေ့ပါလျက် သစ်သီးမျိုး ကို ဖြစ်စေသော သစ်ပင်သစ်ပင်ကို၎င်း ပေါက်စေ၏။

¹³ ထိုအမှုအရာကောင်းသည်ကို ဘုရားသခင်မြင်တော်မူ၍၊ ညဦးနှင့် နံနက်နံနက်သည် တတိယတတိယနေ့နေ့ရက် ဖြစ်လေ၏။

¹⁴ တဖန်ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်က၊ နေ့နေ့နှင့်ညညဉ့်ကို ပိုင်းခြားစေခြင်းငှါ မိုဃ်းကောင်းကင်ကောင်းကင်မျက်နှာကြက်မျက်နှာကြက်၌ အလင်းအိမ်အလင်းအိမ် တညည်စေ၊ နိမိတ်လက္ခဏာ၊ ချိန်းချက်သောအချိန်၊ နေ့နေ့ရက် အပိုင်းအခြား၊ နှစ်အပိုင်းအခြားဘို့ဖြစ်စေ။

¹⁵ မိုဃ်းကောင်းကင်ကောင်းကင် မျက်နှာကြက်မျက်နှာကြက်၌တည်၍ မြေမြေကြီးလင်းစရာ အလင်းအိမ်အလင်းအိမ်ဖြစ်စေဟု အမိန့်တော်ရှိ သည့်အတိုင်းဖြစ်လေလေ၏။

¹⁶ ထိုသို့ ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်သညည် အလင်းအိမ်အလင်းအိမ်ကြီး နှစ်နှစ်လုံးတညည်းဟူသော နေ့နေ့ကိုအုပ်စိုးရသော အကြီးတလုံး၊ ညညဉ့်ကို အုပ်စိုးရသော အငယ်အငယ်တလုံးနှင့်တကွ ကြယ်များကြယ်များတို့ကို ဖန်ဆင်းတော်မူပြီးလျှင်၊

¹⁷ မြေမြေကြီး၌ လင်းစေခြင်းငှာ၎င်း၊ နေ့နှင်ညဉ့်ကို အုပ်စိုး၍ အလင်းနှင့်မှောင်မိုက်ကို ပိုင်းခြားစေခြင်းငှာ ၎င်း၊ မိုဃ်းကောင်းကင်ကောင်းကင် မျက်နှာကြက်မျက်နှာကြက်၌ ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင် ထားတော်မူ၏။

¹⁸ ထိုအမှုအရာ ကောင်းသညည်ကို ဘုရား သခင်မြင်မြင်တော်မူ၍၊

¹⁹ ညဦးနှင့် နံနက်နံနက်သည် စတုတ္ထနေ့နေ့ရက် ဖြစ်လေ၏။

²⁰ တဖန်ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်က အသက်ရှင်၍ လှုပ်ရှားတတ်သော တိရစ္ဆာန်တို့ကို ရေရေသည်များပြားစွာ မွေးဘွား စေ။ ငှက်ငှက်တို့လည်း မြေမြေပေါ် မိုဃ်းကောင်းကင်ကောင်းကင်မျက်နှာကြက်မျက်နှာကြက်ပြင်ဝယ်ပျံပျံစေဟု အမိန့်တော်ရှိ၏။

²¹ ထိုသို့လျှင်ရေရေသည် တိရစ္ဆာန်အမျိုးအလိုက် များပြားစွာ မွေးသွား၍၊ ငါးကြီးအစရှိသော အသက်ရှင်၍ လှုပ်ရှားတတ်သော တိရစ္ဆာန်အပေါင်းတို့ကို၎င်း၊ ပျံပျံတက်သော ငှက်ငှက်မျိုးအပေါင်းတို့ကို၎င်း ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်ဖန် ဆင်း၍၊ ထိုအမူအရာကောင်းသည်ကို မြင်မြင်တော်မူ၏။

²² ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်ကလည်း များပြားစွာ မွေးဘွားကြလော့။ ပင်လယ်ပင်လယ်ရေရေများကို ပြည်ပြည့်စေကြလော့။ ငှက်ငှက်တို့ လည်း မြေမြေပေါ်၌ များပြားစေသတည်းဟု ထိုတိရစ္ဆာန်တို့ကို ကောင်းကြီးပေးကောင်းကြီးပေးတော်မူ၍၊

²³ ညဦးနှင့်နံနက်နံနက်သည် ပဥ္စမနေ့နေ့ရက်ဖြစ်လေ၏။

²⁴ တဖန်ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်က၊ မြေမြေသည် အသက်ရှင်သောသတ္တဝါမျိုးတည်းဟူသော သားယဉ်တို့ကို၎င်း၊ တွားတတ်သော တိရစ္ဆာန်တို့ကို၎င်း၊ သားရဲမျိုးတို့ကို၎င်း၊ မွေးဘွားစေဟုအမိန့်တော်ရှိသည်အတိုင်း ဖြစ်လေ၏။

²⁵ ထိုသို့ ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်သည် သားရဲမျိုး၊ သားယဉ်မျိုး၊ မြေမြေပေါ်မှာ တွားတတ်သော တိရစ္ဆာန်မျိုး အပေါင်း တို့ကို ဖန်ဆင်း၍၊ ထိုအမှုအရာကောင်းသည်ကို မြင်မြင်တော်မူ၏။

²⁶ တဖန်ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်က ငါတို့ပုံပုံသဏ္ဍာန်နှင့်အညီ တသဏ္ဍန်တည်း လူကို ဖန်ဆင်းကြစို့။ သူသည် ပင်လယ်ပင်လယ်ငါးတို့ကို၎င်း၊ မိုဃ်းကောင်းကင်ကောင်းကင်ငှက်ငှက်တို့ကို၎င်း၊ သားယဉ်တို့ကို၎င်း၊ မြေမြေတပြင်လုံးနှင့်တကွ၊ မြေမြေပေါ်မှာ တွားတတ်သော တိရစ္ဆာန်အပေါင်းတို့ကို၎င်း၊ အုပ်စိုးစေဟု အမိန့်တော်ရှိ၏။

²⁷ ထိုသို့ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်သည် မိမိပုံပုံသဏ္ဍန်နှင့်အညီ လူကိုဖန်ဆင်းတော်မူ၏။ ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်၏ ပုံပုံသဏ္ဍာန် တော်နှင့်အညီ လူယောက်ျား၊ လူမိန်းမကိုဖန်ဆင်းပြီးလျှင်၊

²⁸ အချင်းတို့ များပြားစွာမွေးဘွားကြလေလော့။ မြေမြေကြီးကို ပြည်ပြည့်စေ၍ နိုင်ကြလေလော့။ ပင်လယ်ပင်လယ်ငါးတို့ကို၎င်း၊ မိုဃ်းကောင်းကင်ကောင်းကင်ငှက်ငှက်တို့ကို၎င်း၊ အသက်ရှင်၍ မြေမြေပေါ်မှာ လှုပ်ရှားတတ်သော တိရစ္ဆာန်အပေါင်းတို့ကို၎င်း အုပ်စိုးကြလေလော့ဟုမိန့်တော်မူ၍၊ သူတို့ကိုကောင်းကြီးပေးကောင်းကြီးပေးတော်မူ၏။

²⁹ ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်ကလည်း ကြည့်ရှုလော့။ မြေမြေတပြင်လုံး၌ စပါးသီးကို ဖြစ်စေသော စပါးပင်အမျိုးမျိုးတို့ကို ၎င်း၊ မျိုးစေ့ကိုဖြစ်စေသော အသီးအသီးနှင့်ပြည်ပြည့်စုံသော သစ်ပင်သစ်ပင် အမျိုးမျိုးတို့ကို၎င်း၊ သင်တို့ စားစရာဘို့ ငါပေးပေး၏။

³⁰ မြေမြေသား၊ မိုဃ်းကောင်းကင်ကောင်းကင်ငှက်ငှက်၊ အသက်ရှင်၍မြေမြေပေါ်မှာ တွားတတ်သော တိရစ္ဆာန်မျိုးအပေါင်းတို့ စားစရာဘို့၊ မြက်ပင်မြက်ပင်အမျိုးမျိုးတို့ကို ငါပေးမည်ဟု မိန့်တော်မူသည်အတိုင်းဖြစ်လေလေ၏။

³¹ ဘုရားသခဘုရားသခင်သည် မိမိဖန်ဆင်းသမျှသောအရာတို့ကို ကြည့်ရှုလျှင်၊ အလွန်ကောင်းသည်ကို မြင်မြင်တော်မူ၍၊ ညဦးနှင့် နံနက်နံနက်သည် ဆဌမဆဌမနေ့နေ့ရက်ဖြစ်လေ၏။

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Genesis 1: The Creation and Development of our Spiritual Life

Napsal(a) Rev. William Woofenden

The first book of the Bible is "Genesis", which means "creation". It's a very, very ancient story - one of the oldest stories of humankind, and it's full of symbolic meaning that - still - gets to the core of what it is to be truly human.

The first three days of creation describe the development of the natural degree of man's life. They come first as a preparation for the opening of the spiritual degree of our minds. The creation of the grass, herbs, and trees took place on the third day, and constitutes the third step in regeneration. The creation of the fowl and fish was on the fifth day. Between these on the fourth day the sun, moon, and stars were created.

From the beginning man had light, for all light is from the Lord, but it was not direct light. He was not at first in the clear light of the sun, moon, and stars, which are set in the firmament. The firmament is the internal man. There is a preparation that has to be made before the internal man is opened. At first we think we see the truth and do good from ourselves. Hence only inanimate things are produced. All truth and good are from the Lord who alone is truth and goodness, and only when we come to acknowledge this can we have true love from him, true faith in Him, and true knowledge of spiritual things. These are not seen from the external or natural degree of life.

Again we should note a change of language. It was said, "Let the earth bring forth" the grass, herb, and fruit trees. Now and through the remaining days it is said that "God created." Man has a part to play in his regeneration. There must be in his mind forms into which the warmth of love and the light of faith and of spiritual truths can flow.

When the mind is so prepared, influx from the Lord can be received, with greater power. "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven." It should be noted that it is the waters that are commanded to bring forth the moving creature that hath life, and that it is not the seas but the waters which are to produce the living creatures. The seas represent the gathering together of knowledges, but by the "waters" are meant the spiritual truths in the mind. So in the Lord's words to the woman of Samaria, "Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst" (John 4:14). In Ezekiel it is the "waters" issuing from the sanctuary that give life (Ezekiel 47:1). The Psalmist writes, "Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters" (Psalm 104:3). It is not in natural waters that the Lord lays the beams of His chambers. His chambers are the interior principles of His church; the beams give them support and strength. These are said to be laid in the waters because they rest and have their foundation in the genuine truths of the Word. So in Revelation the Word itself is described as a pure river of water of life.

The will faculty in man embraces all his affections and is the internal man. When the sun, moon, and stars—love, faith, and knowledges of spiritual truth—are set in this heaven and begin to impart their warmth and light to the external man, enabling him to think and act from these higher and purer principles, then the external man is gifted with a new life. There may be no apparent change in his outward conduct—he may already be living a moral life—but the motives that direct his acts will be wholly different. And it is the motive that gives character to the act as well as to the actor. He no longer thinks of the truths that he has learned, either natural or spiritual, as the product of his own mind nor of the good, that he does as the result of his own efforts, but thinks of them as wholly from the Lord, who alone is the source of all true light and life.

Before one recognizes clearly that all good and truth come from the Lord, he can bring forth only inanimate things, the grass, herb, and fruit tree, however good and useful these may be. But when he is enlightened by genuine love and faith, his knowledges become the basis for the development of spiritual life and God can create in him the living creatures that have life. First the fishes are created; then the fowl of the air. There is a difference between fishes and birds. The fishes, living in water, represent our affections for natural truths. The great whales, the largest of living creatures, are affections for the great general principles that control the mind. The principle may be either true or false. Of Pharaoh or Egypt it is written, "Thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou earnest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouled at their rivers" (Ezekiel 32:2) Here is pictured a ruling false principle from the natural degree of the mind — Egypt. That is, when the ruling principle is false, it will be a monster making the truths in the mind obscure like filthy or muddy waters.

Another example of the meaning of the whale in a bad sense is in the story of Jonah. When the principle is false it swallows up for a time all the truths that are in the mind. This is the whale swallowing Jonah the prophet. But Divine truth cannot be used by a false principle so as to become a part of its organic structure. Nor can the Divine truth perish. So the whale could not digest Jonah, nor could the prophet perish, but the whale vomited him up.

Spiritually there are whales trying to swallow prophets today, evil principles that try to use Divine truths to attain their ends. In the creation story, however, the whales are affections for the principles of natural truth for the sake of uses to the spiritual man. There is one source of genuine love. The creatures of the fifth day are living because they are animated by this love. Birds fly in the air above the earth. They have the power of flight and enjoy broader views. They represent affections for truth that rise above the natural. They are the thoughts that look at life from the heights of spiritual perception, ideas about the Lord, heaven, and spiritual things. Isaiah writes, "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles" (Isaiah 40:31). Birds represent spiritual intelligence, the power to lift us up to understand spiritual truth in heavenly light, through which truth the Lord can impart to us something of the Divine intelligence. So at the baptism of the Lord "The heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him" (Matthew 3:16). So a new knowledge of heavenly life is given, a new perception of our possibilities, and in this higher intelligence a basis for further development is laid. This further development is pictured in the creation of the living creatures upon the earth. These are symbols of the affections. Here, too, it is said, "Let the earth bring forth" and also "And God made the beast of the earth." The creation of living animals on the earth and of man in the image and likeness of God marks the completion of the six days of creation—the six stages in regeneration. Man has first to learn what is to be believed and done and then to do it.

It is the office of the understanding to hear the Word and of the will to do it. In this way the truths are made our own, and the will and understanding make one mind. And when one begins to act from love as well as from faith, he becomes a spiritual man, who is called an image of God, and is given dominion over all things. Thus all things natural and spiritual come to be a delight to him and serviceable to him. To be an image and likeness of God one must act from impulses similar to those of God. This he cannot do until he comes into the final state of regeneration. Then he will not act from selfish motives, as does the natural man, nor from mere obedience to truth, but from love to the Lord and the neighbor. When these loves are developed and rule, to them is given the dominion over all subordinate affections and the fruits of all the growths of intelligence. These are what make man to be a man and cause him to be in the image and likeness of his Maker. Each step in the formation of a truly human character the Lord saw and pronounced good, but of the work of the sixth day it is said, "God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

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Swedenborg 101: The Basic Nature of Everything - Swedenborg and Life

What the 7 Days of Creation Mean - Swedenborg and Life

What the 7 Days of Creation Mean - Swedenborg and Life

What the 7 Days of Creation Mean - Swedenborg and Life

What the 7 Days of Creation Mean - Swedenborg and Life

What the 7 Days of Creation Mean - Swedenborg and Life

What the 7 Days of Creation Mean - Swedenborg and Life

Does God Want us to Dominate Nature? - Swedenborg Minute

Genesis 1: The Creation and Development of our Spiritual Life