Arcana Coelestia # 7
7. The first state is the state which precedes, both the state existing from earliest childhood onwards and that existing immediately before regeneration; and it is called a void, emptiness, and thick darkness. And the first movement, which is the Lord's mercy, is 'the Spirit of God hovering over the face 1 of the waters'.
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1. literally, The faces
2 Timothy 2:25
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in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
