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Genesis 1:16

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16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #62

Studere hoc loco

  
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62. The stages and states of the regeneration of man - both of mankind and of the individual person - divide into six and are called the days of his creation. Gradually from being no man at all, he first becomes something, though only little, then something more, until the sixth day is reached, when he becomes 'an image'.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Genesis 9:12

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12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: