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Ezekiel 21:19

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19 And thou son of man, set thee two ways, for the sword of the king of Babylon to come: both shall come forth out of one land: and with his hand he shall draw lots, he shall consult at the head of the way of the city.

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The head is the part of us that is highest, which means in a representative sense that it is what is closest to the Lord. Because of this the head represents what is inmost in us, the thing at the center of our being. In most cases this means intelligence and wisdom, since most of us are in a state of life in which we are led by our thoughts and reason. In the case of the Lord, however, it often represents His perfect love. And in many cases the head is used to represent the whole person.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 577; Apocalypse Revealed 538, 823; Arcana Coelestia 7859, 9656, 10011)

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Apocalypse Revealed # 824

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824. He had a name written that no one knew but Himself. This symbolically means that what the Word is like in its spiritual and celestial senses, no one sees but the Lord, and the person to whom He reveals it.

A name symbolizes someone's character (no. 165 and elsewhere), here the character of the Word, or what the Word is like inwardly, that is, in its spiritual and celestial senses. It is said to be a name written, because the Word exists both among people on earth and among angels in heaven (see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 70-75.). No one's knowing the name but Himself means, symbolically, that no one but the Lord Himself sees it, that is, what the Word is like in its spiritual sense, and the person to whom He reveals it.

That no one sees the Word's spiritual meaning but the Lord alone, that no one accordingly sees that meaning unless enabled to do so by the Lord, and that no one is enabled to do so by the Lord unless he possesses Divine truths from the Lord, may be seen in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture 26.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.