The number "two" has two different meanings in the Bible. In most cases "two" indicates a joining together or unification. This is easy to see if we consider the conflicts we tend to have between our "hearts" and our "heads" -- between what we want and what we know. Our "hearts" tell us that we want pie with ice cream for dinner; our "heads" tell us we should have grilled chicken and salad. If we can bring those two together and actually want what's good for us, we'll be pretty happy. We're built that way -- with our emotions balanced against our intellect -- because the Lord is built that way. His essence is love itself, or Divine Love, the source of all caring, emotion and energy. It is expressed as Divine Wisdom, which gives form to that love and puts it to work, and is the source of all knowledge and reasoning. In His case the two aspects are always in conjunction, always in harmony. It's easy also to see how that duality is reflected throughout creation: plants and animals, food and drink, silver and gold. Most importantly, it's reflected in the two genders, with women representing love and men representing wisdom. That's the underlying reason why conjunction in marriage is such a holy thing. So when "two" is used in the Bible to indicate some sort of pairing or unity, it means a joining together. In rare cases, however, "two" is used more purely as a number. In these cases it stands for a profane or unholy state that comes before a holy one. This is because "three" represents a state of holiness and completion (Jesus, for instance, rose from the tomb on the third day), and "two" represents the state just before it.

580. 地狱灵的种种恶毒可以从他们邪恶的伎俩明显地看出来。这些伎俩实在是太多了，单是列举出来就得写本书，若要详细地描述出来，则可谓是罄竹难书。这些伎俩大多不为世人所知。第一种与滥用对应有关；第二种与滥用神性秩序的最处层（终端）有关；第三种与思想和情感的交流和流注有关，这是通过转向别人，把目光聚焦在别人身上，利用其他灵人（托儿）为工具，以及他们自己派出的灵人（使灵）来实现的；第四种与利用幻觉进行操纵有关；第五种与外在投射有关，这能使灵人在其身体之外其它的地方出现；第六种与各种各样的伪装、劝诱和谎言有关。 ¹

恶人的灵魂一旦从身体中解脱出来，就自动进入这些伎俩中，因为这是此刻他所在的邪恶本性所固有的。他们利用这些伎俩在地狱里彼此折磨。不过，除了各种各样的伪装、劝诱和谎言外，这些伎俩都不为世人所知，我在此不详述它们，既因为它们不被人理解，还因为它们太过于邪恶，难以启齿。

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