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And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
658. Those three degrees which in general are called those of the human understanding - that is to say, intellect, reason, and knowledge - are also meant, as has been stated, by the windows for the three storeys of the Temple in Jerusalem, 1 Kings 6:4, 6, 8. They are also meant in what has appeared earlier by the rivers that went out of the garden of Eden from the east, where 'the east' means the Lord, 'Eden' love which belongs to the will, 'the garden' resulting intelligence, and 'the rivers' wisdom, reason, and knowledge. For these matters, see what has been stated at Genesis 2:10-14.