Young donkeys
In Isaiah 30:6, a young donkey signifies knowledges of particulars. (Arcana Coelestia 2781)
In Genesis 49:11, this signifies the natural truth of the external spiritual church, also rational truth of the internal spiritual church. (Arcana Coelestia 2781[5])
In Matthew 21:5, the Lord's riding on a colt or foal of a donkey signifies the natural and rational made subordinate. (Arcana Coelestia 2781[8])
Arcana Coelestia # 101
101. The Lord is 'the east'. This too is clear from several places in the Word, as in Ezekiel,
He brought me to the gate, to the gate facing the way of the east. And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east, and His voice was like the voice of many waters, and the earth shone with His glory. Ezekiel 43:1-2, 4.
The Lord's being 'the east' was the reason for the sacred practice in the Jewish representative Church, before the Temple was built, of facing eastwards when praying.
