'Waters' particularly signify the spiritual parts of a person, or the intellectual aspects of faith, and also their opposites.

'The waters above the firmament,' as in Genesis 1:7, signify the knowledges in the internal self, and 'the waters beneath the firmament' signify the knowledges of the external self.

'Waters,' as in Ezekiel 47:9, refer to the New Jerusalem, and they signify spiritual things from a celestial origin.

'Many waters,' as in Revelation 17:1, signify truths of the Word adulterated. 'Waters' or 'rivers' signify spiritual, rational, or scientific things pertaining to truth.

'Waters … that go softly,' as in Isaiah 8:6-7, signify spiritual things, and 'waters … strong and many,' signify falsities.

'Waters,' as in Psalms 104:3, signify divine truths.

'Waters' signify truths in the natural self, and in the opposite sense, falsities.

'The waters were dried up from off the earth,' as in Genesis 8:7, signifies the apparent dissipation of falsities.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 17; Apocalypse Revealed 50; Genesis 8)

8613. 'One on one side, and one on the other' means in every direction. This is clear from the consideration that 'one on this side, and one on that' means on the right and on the left, and in the spiritual sense on the right and on the left means in every direction. For right or left is not limited to some specific direction but extends to all directions; for in whichever direction he turns they remain constant. This is especially so in the spiritual world, where the nature of spatial directions is altogether different from in the world. In the spiritual world what is on the right appears on the right at every turning or movement around; and the like applies to things on the left, see 4321, 4882.