3531. And his mother said unto him. That this signifies perception from Divine truth, is evident from the signification of “saying,” as being to perceive, concerning which often above; and from the representation of Rebekah, here the “mother,” as being the Divine truth of the Lord’s Divine rational (n. 3012, 3013).

3013. In the internal sense the process of initiation is thus described: When the state was prepared, and all things had been reduced by the Lord into Divine celestial order, so that Divine truth might be conjoined with the Divine good of His rational, and this by the common way from the natural man, that is, from the memory-knowledges, knowledges, and doctrinal things therein, then by the Lord’s Divine influx truths were called forth thence; were initiated into good in the rational; and were made Divine. Thus was the rational made Divine by the Lord in respect to truth as well as in respect to good.