'Waters' particularly signify the spiritual parts of a person, or the intellectual aspects of faith, and also their opposites.

'The waters above the firmament,' as in Genesis 1:7, signify the knowledges in the internal self, and 'the waters beneath the firmament' signify the knowledges of the external self.

'Waters,' as in Ezekiel 47:9, refer to the New Jerusalem, and they signify spiritual things from a celestial origin.

'Many waters,' as in Revelation 17:1, signify truths of the Word adulterated. 'Waters' or 'rivers' signify spiritual, rational, or scientific things pertaining to truth.

'Waters … that go softly,' as in Isaiah 8:6-7, signify spiritual things, and 'waters … strong and many,' signify falsities.

'Waters,' as in Psalms 104:3, signify divine truths.

'Waters' signify truths in the natural self, and in the opposite sense, falsities.

'The waters were dried up from off the earth,' as in Genesis 8:7, signifies the apparent dissipation of falsities.

(सन्दर्भ: Apocalypse Explained 17; Apocalypse Revealed 50; Genesis 8)

1826. That 'he took a turtle dove and a fledgling' means those things that are [the representatives] of the spiritual things of the Church is clear from the meaning of birds in general, and of turtle doves and pigeons in particular. That 'birds' means spiritual things, which are more matters of faith or truth, and so means intellectual concepts and rational concepts, has been shown already in 40, 745, 776, 991; and that 'pigeons' means the goods and truths of faith, 870. And in addition to this, what the birds used in sacrifices meant is in the Lord's Divine mercy to be discussed later on where sacrifices are the subject. When in the Word, especially the Prophetical, celestial things are spoken of, so also are spiritual things spoken of, and thus the two are joined together, for one derives from the other, so that one belongs to the other, as stated already in 639, 680, 683, 707, 793, 810.