57. That all those things which are said by the orthodox at the present day concerning the "sending" of the Holy Spirit fall to the ground as soon as it is known that the Lord is constantly present with every man and causes him to live as man; and that He dwells with man in order that man may go to meet the Lord; and that even if he does not go to meet Him, he still has rationality from Him, which is impossible without the Lord's presence. If the Lord were absent from man, he would not be an animal, but a kind of corpse which would be disintegrated. This is meant in Genesis by "God breathing into him a living soul" (Genesis 2:7).

4566. Verses 9-13 And God was seen by Jacob again, when he was coming from Paddan Aram; and He blessed him. And God said to him, Your name is Jacob; your name will no longer be called Jacob, but indeed Israel will be your name; and He called his name Israel. And God said to him, I am God Shaddai, be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will go out from your loins. And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and to your seed after you I will give the land. And God went up from over him in the place where He talked to him.

'God was seen by Jacob again, when he was coming from Paddan Aram; and He blessed him' means interior natural perception. 'And God said to him, Your name is Jacob' means the nature of the Lord's external Divine Natural. 'Your name will no longer be called Jacob' means that it would no longer be solely external. 'But indeed Israel will be your name' means the nature of the internal natural, or the nature of the spiritual aspect of it, represented by 'Israel'. 'And He called his name Israel' means the internal natural or celestial-spiritual aspect of the natural. 'And God said to him' means perception from the Divine. 'I am God Shaddai' means a state of temptation is past, and now there is Divine comfort. 'Be fruitful and multiply' means good, and Divine truth arising out of this. 'A nation and a company of nations will be from you' means good and Divine forms of good. 'And kings will go out from your loins' means truths from the Divine Marriage. 'And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you' means Divine Natural Good made over to Him. 'And to your seed after you I will give the land' means Divine Natural Truth made over to Him. 'And God went up from over him in the place where He talked to him' means the Divine within that state.