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2 Mosebok 37:12

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12 Och runt omkring det gjorde han en list av en hands bredd, och runt omkring listen gjorde han en rand av guld.

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Four Mandalas

The number "four" in the Bible represents things being linked together or joined. This is partly because four is two times two, and two represents the ultimate linking between our desire to be good and our understanding of truth. We can also see this in the fact that most buildings are rectangular, with the four sides linking together to make a whole. We also divide directions into four -- north, east, south and west -- and talk about the "four corners" of something meaning all of it. So our special thinking naturally looks at four sides as linking together into a whole.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 417; Arcana Coelestia 1686, 9103, 9601, 9767, 9864)

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Arcana Coelestia # 9602

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9602. '[This is what] one curtain [shall be]' means so shall it be for the individual truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'curtain' as truth, dealt with above in 9595, so that 'one curtain' or each by itself means the individual truths.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.