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Genesis 1:27

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27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #7

Studere hoc loco

  
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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

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

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1 Samuel 14:1

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1 Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.