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Genesis 3

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1 Ang ahas nga ay lalong tuso kay sa alin man sa mga hayop sa parang na nilikha ng Panginoong Dios. At sinabi niya sa babae, Tunay bang sinabi ng Dios, Huwag kayong kakain sa alin mang punong kahoy sa halamanan?

2 At sinabi ng babae sa ahas, Sa bunga ng mga punong kahoy sa halamanan ay makakakain kami:

3 Datapuwa't sa bunga ng punong kahoy na nasa gitna ng halamanan ay sinabi ng Dios, Huwag kayong kakain niyaon, ni huwag ninyong hihipuin, baka kayo'y mamatay.

4 At sinabi ng ahas sa babae, Tunay na hindi kayo mamamatay:

5 Sapagka't talastas ng Dios na sa araw na kayo'y kumain niyaon ay madidilat nga ang inyong mga mata, at kayo'y magiging parang Dios, na nakakakilala ng mabuti at masama.

6 At nang makita ng babae, na ang bunga ng punong kahoy ay mabuting kanin, at nakalulugod sa mga mata, at kahoy na mananasa upang magpapantas sa tao, ay pumitas siya ng bunga niyaon at kinain; at binigyan din niya ang kaniyang asawang kasama niya, at ito'y kumain.

7 At nadilat kapuwa ang kanilang mga mata, at kanilang nakilalang sila'y mga hubad; at sila'y tumahi ng mga dahon ng puno ng igos, at kanilang ginawang panapi.

8 At narinig nila ang tinig ng Panginoong Dios na lumalakad sa halamanan sa kulimlim ng araw: at nagtago ang lalake at ang kaniyang asawa sa harapan ng Panginoong Dios sa pagitan ng mga punong kahoy sa halamanan.

9 At tinawag ng Panginoong Dios ang lalake at sa kaniya'y sinabi, Saan ka naroon?

10 At sinabi niya, Narinig ko ang iyong tinig sa halamanan, at ako'y natakot, sapagka't ako'y hubad; at ako'y nagtago.

11 At sinabi niya, Sinong nagsabi sa iyong ikaw ay hubad? nakakain ka ba ng bunga ng punong kahoy, na iniutos ko sa iyong huwag mong kanin?

12 At sinabi ng lalake, Ang babaing ibinigay mong aking kasamahin, ay siyang nagbigay sa akin ng bunga ng punong kahoy at aking kinain.

13 At sinabi ng Panginoong Dios sa babae, Ano itong iyong ginawa? At sinabi ng babae, Dinaya ako ng ahas, at ako'y kumain.

14 At sinabi ng Panginoong Dios sa ahas, Sapagka't ginawa mo ito, ay sumpain ka ng higit sa lahat ng hayop, at ng higit sa bawa't ganid sa parang; ang iyong tiyan ang ilalakad mo, at alabok ang iyong kakanin sa lahat ng mga araw ng iyong buhay:

15 At papagaalitin ko ikaw at ang babae, at ang iyong binhi at ang kaniyang binhi: ito ang dudurog ng iyong ulo, at ikaw ang dudurog ng kaniyang sakong.

16 Sinabi niya sa babae, Pararamihin kong lubha ang iyong kalumbayan at ang iyong paglilihi; manganganak kang may kahirapan; at sa iyong asawa ay pahihinuhod ang iyong kalooban, at siya'y papapanginoon sa iyo.

17 At kay Adam ay sinabi, Sapagka't iyong dininig ang tinig ng iyong asawa, at kumain ka ng bunga ng punong kahoy na aking iniutos sa iyo na sinabi, Huwag kang kakain niyaon; sumpain ang lupa dahil sa iyo; kakain ka sa kaniya sa pamamagitan ng iyong pagpapagal sa lahat ng mga araw ng iyong buhay;

18 Ang isisibol niyaon sa iyo ay mga tinik at mga dawag; at kakain ka ng pananim sa parang;

19 Sa pawis ng iyong mukha ay kakain ka ng tinapay, hanggang sa ikaw ay mauwi sa lupa; sapagka't diyan ka kinuha: sapagka't ikaw ay alabok at sa alabok ka uuwi.

20 At tinawag na Eva ng lalake ang kaniyang asawa, sapagka't siya ang naging ina ng lahat ng mga nabubuhay.

21 At iginawa ng Panginoong Dios si Adam at ang kaniyang asawa ng mga kasuutang balat at sila'y dinamitan.

22 At sinabi ng Panginoong Dios, Narito't ang tao'y naging parang isa sa atin, na nakakakilala ng mabuti at ng masama; at baka ngayo'y iunat ang kaniyang kamay at pumitas naman ng bunga ng punong kahoy ng buhay, at kumain at mabuhay magpakailan man:

23 Kaya pinalayas siya ng Panginoong Dios sa halamanan ng Eden, upang kaniyang bukirin ang lupaing pinagkunan sa kaniya.

24 Ano pa't itinaboy ang lalake; at inilagay sa silanganan ng halamanan ng Eden ang mga Querubin at ang isang nagniningas na tabak na umiikot, upang ingatan ang daang patungo sa kahoy ng buhay.

   

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Divine Wisdom #5

  
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5. [85.] V. WITH MAN THE WILL BECOMES AFTER BIRTH THE RECEPTACLE FOR LOVE, AND THE UNDERSTANDING BECOMES THE RECEPTACLE FOR WISDOM 1

It is known that there are two faculties of life with man, Will and Understanding; for a man can will and he can understand, and what is more, he can understand what he does not will, which shows that Will and Understanding are two distinct things with man, the Will being the receptacle for love, and the Understanding being the receptacle for wisdom. From this it is clear that love is of the Will, for what a man loves, this he also wills; also that wisdom is of the Understanding, for what a man discerns or has a knowledge of, this he sees with his Understanding: the Understanding's seeing is thought. Man does not possess those two faculties as long as he is in the womb; it was shown above that the foetus, while being formed, has absolutely nothing either of Will or of Understanding. It follows from this that it is the Lord Who has prepared the two receptacles, one to be the Will of the future man, the other to be his Understanding, the receptacle called Will for receiving love, and the receptacle called Understanding for receiving wisdom, and that He prepared them by means of His own Love and Wisdom; those two receptacles, however, did not pass over into the man until he was fully formed for birth. The Lord, moreover, provided means for love and wisdom from Himself to be received in them more and more fully as the man advances to maturity and into old age.

[2] [86.] The reason Will and Understanding are called receptacles is that the Will is not some abstract spiritual thing, but a "subject," substanced and formed for the reception of love from the Lord: nor is the Understanding some abstract spiritual thing, but a "subject," substanced and formed for the reception of wisdom from the Lord; they have in truth a concrete existence: although hidden from sight, they nevertheless exist inwardly in the substances that constitute the cerebral cortex, also here and there in its medullary substance, particularly in the corpora striate; they are also inwardly in the medullary substance of the cerebellum, and in the spinal marrow, of which they form the nucleus. Accordingly, there are not just two receptacles but an innumerable number, each one of them being, as said above, of two parts, and also in three degrees. [3] That these are the receptacles, and that they are in those places, is very evident from their being the beginnings and heads of all the nerve-fibres, out of which the whole body is woven, and also from the fact that all the organs of sense and of motion are formed from nerve-fibres that run out from those receptacles, for the nerve-fibres begin in them and end in them. It is solely because the sensory and motor organs issue forth from these dwelling-places of the Will and Understanding, and are in continuous connection with them, that the sensory organs sensate and the motor organs move. In infants those receptacles are small and delicate: later on, they gather fullness and become complete in proportion to the knowledges acquired and to the affection for them; they are perfected in proportion to the intelligence and love of uses; they become flexible with innocence and with love to the Lord, whereas with the opposites of these they become solidified and hardened; changes of their state are affections; variations of their form are thoughts; the coming into existence and permanence of these changes and variations is memory; and the reproduction of them is recollection. The two, taken together, are the human mind.

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1. A marginal note in the MS. reads, "Or perhaps this way: With man the receptacle for love becomes after birth the Will, and the receptacle for wisdom becomes the Understanding." This form was actually used in the heading to the deleted first script of V in the MS. It is used also in No. 82, and again in No. 93.

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