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1 Mose 32

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1 Jakob aber zog seinen Weg; und es begegneten ihm die Engel Gottes.

2 Und da er sie sah, sprach er: Es sind Gottes Heere; und hieß dieselbige Stätte Mahanaim.

3 Jakob aber schickte Boten vor ihm her zu seinem Bruder Esau ins Land Seir, in der Gegend Edom.

4 Und befahl ihnen und sprach: Also saget meinem HERRN Esau: Dein Knecht Jakob läßt dir sagen: Ich bin bis daher bei Laban lange außen gewesen

5 und habe Rinder und Esel, Schafe, Knechte und Mägde; und habe ausgesandt dir, meinem HERRN, anzusagen, daß ich Gnade vor deinen Augen fände.

6 Die Boten kamen wieder zu Jakob und sprachen: Wir kamen zu deinem Bruder Esau; und er zeucht dir auch entgegen mit vierhundert Mann.

7 Da fürchtete sich Jakob sehr, und ihm ward bange; und teilete das Volk, das bei ihm war, und die Schafe und die Rinder und die Kamele in zwei Heere.

8 Und sprach: So Esau kommt auf das eine Heer und schlägt es, so wird das übrige entrinnen.

9 Weiter sprach Jakob: Gott meines Vaters Abraham und Gott meines Vaters Isaak, HERR, der du zu mir gesagt hast: Zeuch wieder in dein Land und zu deiner Freundschaft, ich will dir wohltun:

10 ich bin geringe aller Barmherzigkeit und aller Treue, die du an deinem Knechte getan hast; denn ich hatte nicht mehr weder diesen Stab, da ich über diesen Jordan ging, und nun bin ich zwei Heere worden.

11 Errette mich von der Hand meines Bruders, von der Hand Esaus; denn ich fürchte mich vor ihm, daß er nicht komme und schlage mich, die Mütter samt den Kindern.

12 Du hast gesagt: Ich will dir wohltun und deinen Samen machen wie den Sand am Meer, den man nicht zählen kann vor der Menge.

13 Und er blieb die Nacht da und nahm von dem, das er vorhanden hatte, Geschenk seinem Bruder Esau:

14 zweihundert Ziegen, zwanzig Böcke, zweihundert Schafe, zwanzig Widder

15 und dreißig säugende Kamele mit ihren Füllen, vierzig Kühe und zehn Farren, zwanzig Eselinnen mit zehn Füllen;

16 und tat sie unter die Hand seiner Knechte, je eine Herde besonders, und sprach zu ihnen: Gehet vor mir hin und lasset Raum zwischen einer Herde nach der andern.

17 Und gebot dem ersten und sprach: Wenn dir mein Bruder Esau begegnet und dich fraget: Wem gehörest du an? und wo willst du hin? und wes ist's, das du vor dir treibest?

18 sollst du sagen: Es gehöret deinem Knechte Jakob zu, der sendet Geschenk seinem HERRN Esau und zeucht hinter uns hernach.

19 Also gebot er auch dem andern und dem dritten und allen, die den Herden nachgingen, und sprach: Wie ich euch gesagt habe, so saget zu Esau, wenn ihr ihm begegnet,

20 und saget ja auch: Siehe, dein Knecht Jakob ist hinter uns. Denn er gedachte, ich will ihn versöhnen mit dem Geschenk, das vor mir hergehet; danach will ich ihn sehen, vielleicht wird er mich annehmen.

21 Also ging das Geschenk vor ihm her, aber er blieb dieselbe Nacht beim Heer.

22 Und stund auf in der Nacht und nahm seine zwei Weiber und die zwo Mägde und seine elf Kinder und zog an die Furt Jabbok,

23 nahm sie und führete sie über das Wasser, daß hinüberkam, was er hatte;

24 und blieb allein. Da rang ein Mann mit ihm, bis die Morgenröte anbrach.

25 Und da er sah, daß er ihn nicht übermochte, rührete er das Gelenk seiner Hüfte an; und das Gelenk seiner Hüfte ward über dem Ringen mit ihm verrenkt.

26 Und er sprach: Laß mich gehen, denn die Morgenröte bricht an. Aber er antwortete: Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn.

27 Er sprach: Wie heißest du? Er antwortete: Jakob.

28 Er sprach: Du sollst nicht mehr Jakob heißen, sondern Israel. Denn du hast mit Gott und mit Menschen gekämpft und bist obgelegen.

29 Und Jakob fragte ihn und sprach: Sage doch, wie heißest du? Er aber sprach: Warum fragest du, wie ich heiße? Und er segnete ihn daselbst.

30 Und Jakob hieß die Stätte Pniel; denn ich habe Gott von Angesicht gesehen, und meine Seele ist genesen.

31 Und als er vor Pniel überkam, ging ihm die Sonne auf; und er hinkte an seiner Hüfte.

32 Daher essen die Kinder Israel keine Spannader auf dem Gelenk der Hüfte bis auf den heutigen Tag, darum daß die Spannader an dem Gelenk der Hüfte Jakobs gerühret ward.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 4215

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4215. And kissed his sons and his daughters. That this signifies the acknowledgment of these truths, and of the affections of the same, is evident from the signification of “kissing,” as being conjunction from affection (see n. 3573, 3574), consequently acknowledgment (for where there is conjunction by means of good and truth, there is the acknowledgment of these); from the signification of “sons,” as being truths or verities (n. 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 3773); and from the signification of “daughters,” here Rachel and Leah, as being the affections of the same, that is, of truths (n. 3758, 3782, 3793, 3819).

[2] It is from the correspondence that “kissing” signifies conjunction from affection; for there is a correspondence of heaven with all the organs and members of the body, as shown at the end of the chapters. There is a correspondence of the internal things of man with all things of the face, and hence the animus shines forth from the countenance, and the interior animus or mind from the eyes. There is also a correspondence of the thoughts and affections with the actions and gestures of the body; as is well known in regard to those which are of a voluntary as well as those which are of an involuntary character.

For humiliation of heart produces kneeling, which is an external gesture of the body; humiliation still greater and more internal produces prostration to the earth; gladness of heart and joy of mind produce singing and joyful shouting; sadness and internal mourning produce weeping and wailing; but conjunction from affection produces kissing. From all this it is evident that because such external acts correspond, they are signs of things internal; and that in them as signs there is an internal from which they take their quality. But with those who desire to counterfeit internal things by means of external, such externals are also signs, but signs of simulation, hypocrisy, and deceit. Such is the case with kissing, by which everyone wishes to signify that he loves another from the heart; for he knows that the act of kissing comes from such love, and is a mark of conjunction from affection, and he thereby desires to persuade his neighbor that he loves him for the sake of the good that is in him; when in fact it may be for his own sake, and for his own honor and gain, and thus not for the sake of good, but of evil. For he who regards himself as the end, and not as an intermediate end to good, and desires to be conjoined with another as to that end, is in evil.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 3573

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3573. And kiss me my son. That this signifies whether it can be united, is evident from the signification of “kissing;” as being unition and conjunction from affection. “Kissing,” which is an outward thing, signifies nothing else than the affection of conjunction, which is an inward thing; they also correspond. As is evident from what has been said above, the subject here treated of in the supreme sense is the glorification of the natural in the Lord, that is, how the Lord made the natural in Himself Divine; but in the representative sense the subject is the regeneration of the natural in man, thus the conjunction of the natural with the rational; for the natural is not regenerated until it has been conjoined with the rational. This conjunction is effected by the immediate and mediate influx of the rational into the good and truth of the natural; that is to say, from the good of the rational immediately into the good of the natural, and through this into the truth of the natural; and mediately through the truth of the rational into the truth of the natural, and thence into the good of the natural-which conjunctions are here treated of.

[2] These conjunctions are impossible except by means provided by the Divine, and indeed by such as are utterly unknown to man, and of which he can scarcely have any idea by means of the things of the world’s light, that is, which are of the natural lumen with him; but only by means of the things which are of the light of heaven, that is, which are of rational light. Nevertheless all these means have been disclosed in the internal sense of the Word, and are manifest before those who are in that sense, thus before the angels, who see and perceive innumerable things on this subject, of which scarcely one can be unfolded and explained in a manner suited to the apprehension of man.

[3] But from effects and the signs thereof it is in some measure manifest to man how the case is with this conjunction; for the rational mind (that is, man’s interior will and understanding) ought to represent itself in the natural mind just as this mind represents itself in the face and its expressions, insomuch that as the face is the countenance of the natural man, so the natural mind should be the countenance of the rational mind. When the conjunction has been effected, as is the case with those who have been regenerated, then whatever man interiorly wills and thinks in his rational presents itself conspicuously in his natural, and this latter presents itself conspicuously in his face. Such a face have the angels; and such a face had the most ancient people who were celestial men, for they were not at all afraid that others should know their ends and intentions, inasmuch as they willed nothing but good; for he who suffers himself to be led by the Lord never intends or thinks anything else. When the state is of this character, then the rational as to good conjoins itself immediately with the good of the natural, and through this with its truths; and also mediately through the truth that is conjoined with itself in the rational with the truth of the natural, and through this with the good therein; and in this way the conjunction becomes indissoluble.

[4] But how far man is at this day removed from this state, thus from the heavenly state, may be seen from the fact that it is believed to be of civil prudence to speak, to act, and also to express by the countenance, something else than what one thinks and intends, and even to dispose the natural mind in such a manner that together with its face it may act contrary to the things which it interiorly thinks and wills from an end of evil. To the most ancient people this was an enormous wickedness, and such persons were cast out from their society as devils. From these things, as from effects and their signs, it is evident in what consists the conjunction of the rational or internal of man as to good and truth with his natural or external man; and thus what is the quality of a man-angel, and what the quality of a man-devil.

  
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