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Leviticus 18

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1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: I am the Lord your God.

3 You shall not do according to the custom of the land of Egypt, in which you dwelt: neither shall you act according to the manner of the country of Chanaan, into which I will bring you, nor shall you walk in their ordinances.

4 You shall do my judgments, and shall observe my precepts, and shall walk in them. I am the Lord your God.

5 Keep my laws and my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. I am the Lord.

6 No man shall approach to her that is near of kin to him, to uncover her nakedness. I am the Lord.

7 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother: she is thy mother, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

8 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife: for it is the nakedness of thy father.

9 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy sister by father or by mother, whether born at home or abroad.

10 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy son's daughter, or thy daughter's daughter: because it is thy own nakedness.

11 11Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, whom she bore to thy father, and who is thy sister.

12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: because she is the flesh of thy father.

13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: because she is thy mother's flesh.

14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother: neither shalt thou approach to his wife, who is joined to thee by affinity.

15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: because she is thy son's wife, neither shalt thou discover her shame.

16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: because it is the nakedness of thy brother.

17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy wife and her daughter. Thou shalt not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to discover her shame: because they are her flesh, and such copulation is incest.

18 Thou shalt not take thy wife's sister for a harlot, to rival her, neither shalt thou discover her nakedness, while she is yet living.

19 Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers, neither shalt thou uncover her nakedness.

20 Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife, nor be defiled with mingling of seed.

21 Thou shalt not give any of thy seed to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor defile the name of thy God : I am the Lord.

22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, because it is an abomination.

23 Thou shalt not copulate with any beast, neither shalt thou be defiled with it. A woman shall not lie down to a beast, nor copulate with it: because it is a heinous crime.

24 Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,

25 And with which the land is defiled: the abominations of which I will visit, that it may vomit out its inhabitants.

26 Keep ye my ordinances and my judgments, and do not any of these abominations: neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you.

27 For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have done, that; were before you, and have defiled it.

28 Beware then, lest in like manner, it vomit you also out, if you do the like things, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

29 Every soul that shall commit any of these abominations, shall perish from the midst of his people.

30 Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done, that have been before you, and be not defiled therein. I am the Lord your God.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 1006

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1006. Blessed is he that watcheth. That this signifies the happy state of those who look to the Lord, is evident from the signification of blessed, as denoting to be in a happy state; and from the signification of watching, as denoting to procure for oneself spiritual life (concerning which see n. 187). And this is procured by man's looking to the Lord, because the Lord is life itself, and from Him alone is life eternal.

While a man is in life from the Lord, he is in wakefulness but when he is in life from himself, he is then in sleep. Or, what is the same, whilst man is in spiritual life, he is then in wakefulness, but when he is in natural life separated from spiritual, then he is in sleep; and what he then sees resembles what he sees in a dream. To live this life is also meant by sleeping and slumbering in the Word.

As Matthew 13:25; 25:5, 6; Mark 4:26, 27; 13:36; Isaiah 5:27; Jeremiah 51:39, 57; Psalms 13:4; 76:7; and elsewhere.

Hence it is evident what is signified by watching.

Continuation concerning the Sixth Precept:-

[2] It must be known, however, that there are adulteries more or less infernal and abominable. The adulteries arising from the more grievous evils and the falsities therefrom are also the more grievous, and those from the milder evils and the falsities therefrom are milder. For adulteries correspond to the adulterations of good, and thence the falsifications of truth, adulterations of good being intrinsically evils, and falsifications of truth being intrinsically falsities; according to correspondences therewith the hells are arranged into genera and species. Cadaverous hells are formed of those who delighted in the violation of wives; excrementitious hells of those who took delight in the deflorations of virgins; direful slimy hells, of those whose delight was in varieties and a change of harlots; and filthy hells, of the rest. Sodomitic hells are formed of those who were in evils from the love of ruling over others from sole delight in ruling who find no delight in use.

From those who have separated faith from good works, both in doctrine and in life, adulteries like those as of a son with a mother, or with a mother-in-law, breathe forth. From those who have studied the Word only for the sake of glory, and not for spiritual uses, there exhale adulteries like those of a father with a daughter-in-law. From those who believe that sins are remitted through the Holy Supper, and not by repentance of life, adulteries like those of a brother with a sister breathe forth. From those who altogether deny the Divine, there exhale abominations with beasts, and so on.

The reason why such hells are formed of these is because of the correspondence with the adulterations or defilements of good and truth.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.