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Genesis 7

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1 At sinabi ng Panginoon kay Noe, Lumulan ka at ang iyong buong sangbahayan sa sasakyan; sapagka't ikaw ay aking nakitang matuwid sa harap ko sa panahong ito.

2 Sa bawa't malinis na hayop ay kukuha ka ng tigpipito, ng lalake at ng kaniyang babae; at sa mga hayop na hindi malinis ay dalawa, ng lalake at ng kaniyang babae;

3 Gayon din naman sa mga ibon sa himpapawid tigpipito, ng lalake at ng babae; upang ingatang binhing buhay sa ibabaw ng buong lupa.

4 Sapagka't pitong araw pa, at pauulanan ko na ang ibabaw ng lupa ng apat na pung araw at apat na pung gabi, at aking lilipulin ang lahat ng may buhay na aking nilikha sa balat ng lupa.

5 At ginawa ni Noe ayon sa lahat na iniutos sa kaniya ng Panginoon.

6 At may anim na raang taon si Noe nang ang baha ng tubig ay dumagsa sa ibabaw ng lupa.

7 At lumulan sa sasakyan si Noe at ang kaniyang mga anak, at ang kaniyang asawa, at ang mga asawa ng kaniyang mga anak, dahil sa tubig ng baha.

8 Sa mga hayop na malinis, at sa mga hayop na hindi malinis, at sa mga ibon at sa bawa't umuusad sa ibabaw ng lupa,

9 Ay dalawa't dalawang dumating kay Noe sa sasakyan, na lalake at babae ayon sa iniutos ng Dios kay Noe.

10 At nangyari na pagkaraan ng pitong araw, na ang tubig ng baha ay umapaw sa ibabaw ng lupa.

11 Sa ikaanim na raang taon ng buhay ni Noe, nang ikalawang buwan, sa ikalabing pitong araw ng buwan, nang araw ding yaon, ay nangasira ang lahat ng bukal ng lubhang kalaliman, at ang mga durungawan ng langit ay nabuksan.

12 At umulan sa ibabaw ng lupa ng apat na pung araw at apat na pung gabi.

13 Nang araw ding yaon, ay lumulan sa sasakyan si Noe, at si Sem, at si Cham, at si Japhet, na mga anak ni Noe, at ang asawa ni Noe, at ang tatlong asawa ng kaniyang mga anak na kasama nila;

14 Sila, at ang bawa't hayop gubat ayon sa kanikanilang uri, at lahat ng hayop na maamo ayon sa kanikanilang uri, at bawa't umuusad sa ibabaw ng lupa ayon sa kanikanilang uri, at bawa't ibon ayon sa kanikanilang uri, lahat ng sarisaring ibon.

15 At nagsidating kay Noe sa sasakyan na dalawa't dalawa, ang lahat ng hayop na may hinga ng buhay.

16 At ang mga nagsilulan, ay lumulang lalake at babae, ng lahat na laman, gaya ng iniutos sa kaniya ng Dios: at kinulong siya ng Panginoon.

17 At tumagal ang baha ng apat na pung araw sa ibabaw ng lupa; at lumaki ang tubig at lumutang ang sasakyan, at nataas sa ibabaw ng lupa.

18 At dumagsa ang tubig at lumaking mainam sa ibabaw ng lupa; at lumutang ang sasakyan sa ibabaw ng tubig.

19 At dumagsang lubha ang tubig sa ibabaw ng lupa: at inapawan ang lahat na mataas na bundok na nasa silong ng buong langit.

20 Labing limang siko ang lalim na idinagsa ng tubig; at inapawan ang mga bundok.

21 At namatay ang lahat ng lamang gumagalaw sa ibabaw ng lupa, ang mga ibon at gayon din ang hayop, at ang hayop gubat, at ang bawa't nagsisiusad na umuusad sa ibabaw ng lupa, at ang bawa't tao.

22 Ang bawa't may hinga ng diwa ng buhay sa kanilang ilong, lahat na nasa lupang tuyo ay namatay.

23 At nilipol ang bawa't may buhay na nasa ibabaw ng lupa, ang tao at gayon din ang hayop, at ang mga umuusad at ang mga ibon sa himpapawid; at sila'y nalipol sa lupa: at ang natira lamang, ay si Noe at ang mga kasama niya sa sasakyan.

24 At tumagal ang tubig sa ibabaw ng lupa, ng isang daan at limang pung araw.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 806

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806. 'Everything that was on the dry land' means the people in whom nothing of that kind of life existed any more, and 'they died' means that they breathed their last. This follows now from what has been said above. And because all the life that belongs to love and faith had been annihilated, 'the dry land' is referred to here. The dry land is where there is no water, that is, where nothing spiritual, let alone celestial, exists any more. Persuasion of falsity annihilates and so to speak suffocates everything spiritual and celestial, as anyone may recognize from much experience if he pays the matter any attention. Once people have adopted opinions, though utterly false, they cling to them so tenaciously that they will not even listen to anything to the contrary. That being so, they never allow themselves to be taught, even if the truth is placed before their very eyes. Still more is this the case when they reverence a false opinion because of some idea that is sacred. Such people spurn all truth, and what they do accept they pervert, and in so doing submerge in delusions. It is they who are meant here by 'the dry land' which has no water or grass on it, as in Ezekiel,

I will make the rivers dry land, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men, and I will make the land desolate and the fullness of it. Ezekiel 30:12.

'Making the rivers dry land' stands for what is spiritual being no more. And in Jeremiah,

Your land has become dry land. Jeremiah 44:22.

'Dry land' stands for land made desolate and laid waste so that there is no longer any good or truth at all.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 5128

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5128. 'When you were his cupbearer' means as is the normal position for sensory impressions of this kind. This is clear from the meaning of 'cupbearer' as the powers of the senses, that is, those of them that are subject to the understanding part of the mind, dealt with in 5077, 5082 - the normal position being meant by the expression 'when you were'. The need for sensory impressions to be subject and subordinate to rational ideas has been referred to already in what has gone before; but since the subjection and subordination of them is the subject here in the internal sense, something more must be said about the nature of this.

[2] The person with whom the senses have been made subject is called a rational person, but a person with whom they have not is called one ruled by his senses. But whether a person is rational or whether he is one ruled by his senses is scarcely discernible by others; only the individual himself can know, if he examines himself inwardly, that is, if he examines what he wills and what he thinks. Others cannot know from a person's speech whether he is one ruled by his senses or whether he is a rational person, nor can they know it from his actions, because the life of his thought held within his speech and the life of his will held within his actions cannot be perceived by any of the physical senses. These hear merely the sound he utters, or they see the movement made by his body together with the affection that impels him to make it. One cannot tell whether this affection is artificial or genuine. In the next life however those who are governed by good perceive clearly both what is held within a person's speech and what is held within his actions, and so perceive the nature of the life within them and where that life has its origin. Yet even in the world several indications exist which enable one to deduce to some extent whether the senses are subject to the rational, or the rational to the senses; or what amounts to the same, whether a person is rational or ruled solely by his senses. Those indications are as follows: If one notices that a person who makes false assumptions is not ready to become more enlightened but casts truths altogether aside, dispenses with reason, and obstinately defends falsities, this is an indication that he is ruled by his senses and is not a rational person. His rational is closed, so that it does not let in the light of heaven.

[3] Ruled even more by their senses are those who are quite convinced by what is false, for such a conviction closes the rational altogether. It is one thing to make false assumptions, another to be convinced by what is false. Those convinced by what is false do have some light shining within their natural, but this is like the light in winter. When it shines among them in the next life that light is as bright as snow; but as soon as the light of heaven falls on it, it becomes a dull light, the degree and nature of their conviction making it dark as night. The same is also evident in these people while they are living in the world, for during that time they are unable to see the faintest glimmer of truth. Indeed because of the dullness and benightedness due to the falsity of which they are convinced, they see no value at all in truths and laugh at them. To the simple those people sometimes give the impression that they are rational, for by means of that snowy-white wintry light they are able to employ clever reasonings to substantiate falsities and make them look like truths. This kind of conviction exists in many of the learned, more than in every other kind of person, for they have used syllogistic and philosophical reasonings, and finally much factual knowledge to become firmly convinced by falsities. Among the ancients such people were called serpents belonging to the tree of knowledge, 195-197, but today they may be called those who are ruled inwardly by their senses and are devoid of true rationality.

[4] The main indication that shows whether someone is ruled wholly by his senses or whether he is a rational person exists in the life he leads. By this one does not mean the kind of life that is evident in his words and deeds but the kind that is held inwardly in these. For the source of the life within his words is his thought, and the source of the life within his deeds is his will, both having their origin in his intentions or end in view. The nature therefore of the intentions or end in view present within his words and deeds determines the nature of the life they hold within them, for without the life within them words are mere sounds, while deeds are mere motions. This kind of life is also what is meant when one speaks of life continuing after death. If a person is rational his words flow from right thinking and his deeds from right willing; that is, his words are a product of faith and his deeds a product of charity. But if a person is not rational he can, it is true, make a pretence of acting as one who is rational, and likewise of speaking as one who is such; but no life at all is coming from his rational. For a life of evil closes entirely the path to or communication with the rational, which causes him to be a merely natural person or one ruled by his senses.

[5] There are two things which not only close that path of communication but also rob a person of the ability ever to become rational - deceit and profanation. Deceit is like a subtle poison which affects the inward parts, while profanation is that which mixes up falsities with truths and evils with forms of good. The two completely destroy the rational. Present with everyone there are forms of good and truth which have been stored away by the Lord since earliest childhood. In the Word these forms of good and truth are called remnants, regarding which see 468, 530, 560, 561, 661, 1050, 1738, 1906, 2284; and it is these remnants that deceit poisons and that profanation mixes up with falsities and evils. For what profanation is, see 593, 1008, 1010, 1059, 1327, 1328, 2051, 2426, 3398, 3402, 3489, 3898, 4289, 4601. All these indications show to some extent who a rational person is and who one ruled by his senses is.

[6] When the senses have become subject to the rational, the sensory powers that serve to form a person's first mental images receive light which comes through heaven from the Lord; they are at the same time brought into a state of order that enables them to receive that light and agree with the rational. Once they exist in this condition sensory impressions are no longer a barrier that prevents truths from being either acknowledged or seen, for those that are not in keeping with truths are instantly set aside, while those which are in keeping are accepted. Those that are in keeping are now so to speak at the centre and those that are not are on the fringes. Those at the centre are so to speak raised up towards heaven, while those on the fringes are hanging downwards. Those at the centre receive light from the rational, and when they are manifested visually in the next life they look like small glittering stars which radiate light, gradually decreasing, out to the fringes. This is the kind of form that natural or sensory images are being brought into when the rational has dominion and the senses exist subject to it. This is what happens to a person while he is being regenerated, bringing him as a consequence into a state in which truths can be seen and acknowledged by him in abundance. But when the rational is subject to the senses the opposite happens, for in this case falsities are in the middle or at the centre and truths are on the fringes. The falsities at the centre dwell in a certain kind of light, which however is an inferior and deceptive one, like that emitted by a coal fire. Into this there is flowing light on every side from hell. This inferior light is that which is called darkness, for as soon as any light from heaven flows into it, it is converted into darkness.

  
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