Arcana Coelestia # 3189
3189. 'And her maids' means subsidiary affections. This is clear from the meaning of 'a girl' 1 when Rebekah is called such, as an affection that has innocence within it, dealt with in 3067, 3110; but when those who followed Rebekah to serve her are called 'maids', subsidiary affections are meant. Every affection appears to be a simple or single entity, but in fact it contains countless details within itself, see 3078. All these details are affections grouped together and existing in a form beyond comprehension. They also stand in positions subordinate one to another, for there are some that direct and others that obey. The communities of heaven assume a similar form, indeed heaven as a whole does so; for they are ordered by the Lord according to the Divine form which exists in Himself. The Lord's spiritual kingdom assumes its form in accordance with the ordered arrangement of affections in His Divine Human. This arrangement is the subject in the internal sense of this chapter and of those that follow. But very few of these details are able to be explained intelligibly, being suited to the perception of angels.
Poznámky pod čarou:
1. The English terms maid and girl translate the same Latin word puella.
Isaiah 6
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In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
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Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.
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One called to another, and said, "Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!"
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The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.
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Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!"
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Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
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He touched my mouth with it, and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven."
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I heard the Lord's voice, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here I am. send me!"
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He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, but don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.'
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Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed."
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Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land becomes utterly waste,
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And Yahweh has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
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If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains when they are felled; so the holy seed is its stock."
