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Ezekiel 20:15

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15 Yet also I lifted up my hand to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

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Starší (starší)

  
An Elderly Woman, by the Workshop of Rembrandt

Věci, které jsou v Bibli „starší“, obecně představují duchovní stavy, které přicházejí před ostatními. Například ze dvou sester, které si Jacob vzal, byla Leah starší a představuje náklonnost ke skutečným představám o vnějším životě. Rachael, mladší, představuje náklonnost ke skutečným představám o vnitřním životě, životě mysli a ducha. Společně představují Pánův postup, zatímco vyrůstal jako lidský Ježíš, od náklonnosti k vnějším myšlenkám po náklonnost k vnitřním.

(Odkazy: Nebeská tajemství 1222, 3819)

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Arcana Coelestia # 2886

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2886. With regard to man's affections and to his thoughts, the position is that no one at all, whether man, spirit, or angel, is able to will or to think from himself, but does so from others. Nor are those others themselves the source of anything they will or think, but others again, and so on with these. Thus each individual wills and thinks from the First Source of life, who is the Lord. Anything that is not connected to a prior source cannot occur. Evils and falsities have a connection with the hells, and so the hells are the source of the thinking and willing of people immersed in evils and falsities, and also the source of their love, affection, and delight, and consequently of their freedom. But goods and truths have a connection with heaven, and so heaven is the source of the thinking and willing of people with whom goods and truths are present, and also the source of their love, affection, and delight, and consequently of their freedom. From this it becomes clear where the first type of freedom originates and where the second. The truth of this is very well known in the next life, but it is totally unknown at the present time in the world.

  
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