8479. 'And they did not hear Moses' means lack of faith and consequently lack of obedience. This is clear from the meaning of 'hearing' as perceiving, possessing faith, and obeying, dealt with in 5017, 7216, 8361.

6058. But the nature of the inflowing is such that it begins in the Lord's Divine Being and passes into every angel, every spirit, and every man, and in this way the Lord governs everyone not only in an overall sense but also in the smallest details. He does so both directly from Himself and indirectly through the spiritual world. So that the existence of this inflowing may be known much has been stated already regarding the correspondence of the parts of the human being with the Grand Man, that is, with heaven, and at the same time regarding the representation of spiritual realities with natural things. These matters were dealt with at the ends of Chapters 23-43. After that the subject, the angels and spirits present with a person, was dealt with at the ends of Chapters 44, 45. It now follows that the specific matters of influx and the interaction of the soul and the body should be dealt with. But they are matters that need to have the light of experience thrown on them, otherwise a subject about which people are so ignorant and which they place in the dark by conjecturing about it cannot be brought out into the light. Experiences that throw light on these matters will be related at the ends of several chapters following this. What has been stated so far may serve instead of an introduction to those experiences.

1015. That 'be fruitful and multiply' means increases in good and truth in the interior man, 'being fruitful' having reference to goods and 'multiplying' to truths, is clear from what has been shown already at verse 1 of this chapter where the same words occur. That they reside with the interior man becomes clear from the second half of this verse where the imperative multiply is repeated. This would be an unnecessary and therefore pointless repetition if it did not mean something specific, different from the previous use of the word. From these considerations, and from others mentioned so far, it is clear that here being fruitful and multiplying have reference to goods and truths residing with the interior man. The expression 'interior man' is used because, as shown above, one is an internal man in regard to celestial and spiritual things which are the Lord' s alone, but an interior or intermediate man between internal man and external in regard to rational things, and an external man in regard to affections for good and to memory knowledge.

[2] That man is such has been shown in the opening sections of this chapter, in 978, but the reason why the individual is not conscious of them during his life in the body is that he is immersed in bodily things. Therefore he does not know of the existence of interior things, let alone about their existing distinctly and separately in such order. Yet, if he is willing to reflect, their existence is evident to him when he is wrapped in thought detached from the body and is thinking so to speak within his spirit. The reason being fruitful and multiplying have reference to the interior man, which is the rational, is that the activity of the internal man is not felt except very generally in the interior man, for limitless integral parts manifest themselves in the interior as one general, indeed very general, whole. How limitless those integral parts are, how they interrelate and manifest themselves as an obscure and very general whole, becomes clear from what has been shown already in 545.