Hemelse Verborgenheden in Genesis en Exodus # 1932
1932. Dat de woorden ‘van waar komt gij, en waarheen gaat gij’ de kennisneming ten aanzien van de staat betekenen, volgt hieruit.
Handmaid
'A handmaid', as mentioned in Genesis 33:2, signifies the affection of sciences and knowledges and means serviceable to the conjunction of the external and internal self.
In Genesis 33:7, this signifies knowledge of external things derived from the world, which are the most common or general of all. This also signifies the affection of rational and scientific things.
In Genesis 30:3, this signifies the affirming medium of conjoining inner truths with natural or external truths.
(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 2567, 2657, Genesis 2)