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Hosea 8:9

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9 For they are gone up [to] Assyria [as] a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

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Cry

  
According to ancient Greek mythology, the giant Prometheus created the first man out of clay and gave him fire, essential for the development of technology and the arts, by which men became more like gods themselves. Zeus, the king of the gods, punished him for this, chaining him to a mountainside and sending an eagle that every day pecked out Prometheus's liver, which re-grew overnight. He was eventually freed by Hercules.

As with most common verbs, the spiritual meaning of “crying” or “crying out” (meaning a shout or wail, not weeping) is highly dependent on context. Who is crying out? To whom? Why? In most cases, though, crying has to do with speaking falsely, and of the emotions arising from the conflict between truth and falsity. When people cry out in distress it is most often an indication that they are being overwhelmed by false ideas. In other cases – especially regarding more joyful cries – it is a celebration of the triumph of truth.

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Heaven and Hell # 59

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59. ALL HEAVEN IN THE AGGREGATE REFLECTS A SINGLE MAN.

That heaven in its whole complex reflects a single man is an arcanum hitherto unknown in the world, but fully recognized in the heavens. To know this and the specific and particular things relating to it is the chief thing in the intelligence of the angels there, and on it many things depend which without it as their general principle would not enter distinctly and clearly into the ideas of their minds. Knowing that all the heavens with their societies reflect a single man they call heaven the Greatest Man and the Divine Man; 1 --Divine because it is the Divine of the Lord that makes heaven (see above, 7-12).

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1. [Swedenborg's footnote] Heaven in the whole complex appears in form like a man, and for this reason heaven is called the Greatest Man (Arcana Coelestia 2996, 2998, 3624-3649, 3741-3745, 4625).

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for their permission to use this translation.