Arcana Coelestia #1956

By Emanuel Swedenborg

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1956. Therefore she called the fountain. That this signifies the derivative state of truth, is evident from what has been said; and also from the signification of a fountain,” as being truth (explained above, n. 1927). As this truth was not seen in the rational, but below the rational, the word in the original language that is here rendered “fountain” is a different word from that rendered “fountain” above, and from the common word for fountain.

  
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