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Genesis 2:18

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18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him a help meet for him.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #102

Studere hoc loco

  
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102. Verse 9 And Jehovah God caused to spring up out of the ground every tree desirable to the sight and good for food; and the tree of life 1 in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

'Tree' means perception, 'tree desirable to the sight' the perception of what is true, 'tree good for food' the perception of what is good, 'tree of life' love and faith deriving from love, and 'the tree of the knowledge of good and evil' faith derived from sensory evidence, that is, from knowledge.

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1. literally, of lives

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