Arcana Coelestia # 73
73. Genesis 2:1-17
1. And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2. And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had made, and rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.
3. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, for on that day He rested from all His work which God had created when making it.
4. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when He created them, on the day in which Jehovah God made the earth and the heavens.
5. And no shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth; and there was no man to till the ground.
6. And He caused a mist to go up from the earth, and it watered all the face 1 of the ground.
7. And Jehovah God formed the man, dust from the ground; and He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; 2 and man became a living soul.
8. And Jehovah God planted a garden in Eden, from the east, and there He put the man whom He had formed.
9. And Jehovah God caused to spring up out of the ground every tree desirable to the sight and good for food; and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10. And a river was going out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four heads.
11. The of the first is the Pishon; this encompasses the whole land of Havillah, where there is gold.
12. And the gold of that land is good; bdellium is there and the shoham stone.
13. And the name of the second river is the Gihon, that which encompasses the whole land of Cush.
14. And the name of the third river is the Hiddekel. This goes eastwards towards Asshur. And the fourth river is the Phrath.
15. And Jehovah God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden, to till it and to care for it.
16. And Jehovah God commanded the man and said, From every tree in the garden you may indeed eat.
17. But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it, for on the day that you eat of it you will surely die.
CONTENTS
Verse 1 deals next with the man who from being dead has already progressed to being spiritual, and from being spiritual now progresses to being celestial.
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Ezekiel 1
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Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
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In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
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the word of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Yahweh was there on him.
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I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of its midst as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.
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Out of its midst came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.
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Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.
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Their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass.
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They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and the four of them had their faces and their wings [thus]:
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their wings were joined one to another; they didn't turn when they went; each one went straight forward.
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As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and the four of them had the face of a lion on the right side; and the four of them had the face of an ox on the left side; the four of them also had the face of an eagle.
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Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and Two covered their bodies.
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Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went; they didn't turn when they went.
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As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: [the fire] went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
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The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
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Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it.
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The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl: and the four of them had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.
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When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn when they went.
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As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.
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When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
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Wherever the spirit was to go, they went; there was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
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When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
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Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like the awesome crystal to look on, stretched forth Over their heads above.
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Under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward the other: each one had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies.
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When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army: when they stood, they let down their wings.
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There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads: when they stood, they let down their wings.
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Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.
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I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.
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As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.
