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تكوين 3:6

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6 فرأت المرأة ان الشجرة جيدة للأكل وانها بهجة للعيون وان الشجرة شهيّة للنظر. فأخذت من ثمرها واكلت واعطت رجلها ايضا معها فأكل.

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Arcana Coelestia #191

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191. Because from the love of self, that is, their own love, they began to believe nothing that they did not apprehend by the senses, the sensuous part is represented by the “serpent;” the love of self, or their own love, by the “woman;” and the rational by the “man.”

  
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