Arcana Coelestia #4157

By Emanuel Swedenborg

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4157. And sat upon them. That this signifies that they are interior, being thus beneath her in the straw of the camel, is evident from the signification of the “straw of the camel,” as being memory-knowledges, as just shown. The truths signified by the “teraphim” were not memory-knowledges, but were within them. For as regards the truths of three degrees (concerning which just above, n. 4154), the more interior are within the more exterior; for so do they bestow themselves in order.

  
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