Drawing" is used a number of different ways in the Bible, generally in the sense of pulling, leading or moving: People most commonly draw water, draw near to others, draw things out, draw swords and draw breath, among others. These all have separate meanings, though they are all active and involve a desire for something spiritual. To draw near to someone represents a communication between different spiritual levels, usually bringing our externals – our day-to-actions and the thoughts and feelings connected to them – into communication with our internals, or the deeper principles and motivations that drive us. To draw water represents a state of learning and instruction, which makes sense because water represents truth in general, especially more basic true ideas about how to live external life. To draw things out from somewhere – which is at various times used in relation to people, animals and objects – represents a state of compulsion, in which a spiritual state or knowledge is being forced on someone. Swords represent true ideas in battle, or in the opposite sense false ideas in battle. So drawing a sword means either attacking true ideas by means of false ones, or else attacking false ideas by means of true ones. Drawing breath, finally, represents gathering in ideas of the most basic sort, ideas on how to apply the concepts we accept at face value. For instance, we might accept the concept that it's important to be polite, and from that gather in the idea that we should use the words "please" and "thank you." These are things we accept without much examination, and they are important to external life even if they have little internal importance.