Secrets of Heaven #1014

By Emanuel Swedenborg

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1014. Genesis 9:7. "And you, reproduce and multiply; pour out into the earth and multiply on it."

Reproduce and multiply here as above [§§983-984] symbolizes increasing goodness and truth in our intermediate self; reproducing has to do with goodness and multiplying with truth. Pour out into the earth and multiply on it symbolizes increasing goodness and truth in our outer self, which is the earth; pouring out has to do with goodness and multiplying with truth.

  
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