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1 Mose 13:17

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17 Darum so mache dich auf und ziehe durch das Land in die Länge und Breite; denn dir will ich's geben.

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Arcana Coelestia #1593

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1593. 'And Lot travelled from the east' means those things residing with the external man which depart from celestial love. This is clear from the meaning of 'the east' as the Lord, and so as everything celestial, dealt with already in 101. And because the east means the Lord 'the east' here is consequently the Lord's Internal Man, which is Divine. Thus it is the departure of the external man from the internal that is meant here by the words 'Lot travelled from the east'.

  
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