6262. 'And Israel said to Joseph' means a raising up to the internal. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' as perception and also an inflowing, dealt with before. The reason a raising up is meant is that this verse deals with an inflowing of love, and consequently of goodness and truth from the internal, an inflowing which is a raising up to the internal. The external cannot possess love for the internal except through an inflowing and a raising up by the internal. For the very love that is felt within the external belongs to the internal; and since every active force has that which is reactive, namely that which acts in response to it, in order that some effect may be realized, and as the active force is the cause and what reacts to it is a product of the cause, reaction belongs to the active force just as the product of a cause belongs to that cause. For every force within the product of a cause originates in the cause. This is true of reaction existing in every detail of the entire natural order.