Donkeys signify things relating to the intelligence of the sensual man; and camels, the things of intelligence in the natural man. (Isaiah 30:6, 7)

In Genesis 12:16, donkeys signify earthly knowledge. (Arcana Coelestia 1486)

In 1 Samuel 9:3, donkeys signify the Lord's preparation for His natural life on Earth. (Arcana Coelestia 2781[5])

In Luke 19:28, 41, a donkey and the foal of an donkey signify the natural man as to good and truth.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 654)

1910. 'And she conceived' means the initial life of the rational. This is clear from the meaning of 'conception' as initial life. As regards the rational, this receives its life, as has been stated, from the life that belongs to the internal man, and is life flowing into the life of the exterior man's affection for cognitions and knowledge. The life of the affection for cognitions and knowledge provides the rational so to speak, with a body, that is, it clothes the life of the internal man as the body does the soul. So it is exactly with cognitions and knowledge. The idea or image of soul and body exists with a human being in every part of him, in every part of his affection, and in every part of his thinking, for there is nothing, however simple it may appear to be, that does not have constituent parts and does not arise from that which is prior to itself.