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Genesis 1:1

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From Swedenborg's Works

 

Spiritual Experiences #5604

  
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5604. However, they have the Word written in spiritual language, spoken of earlier [5587ֹ7]. They have the Word with a double wisdom: the spiritual [angels] have a meaning intermediate between the inner and the outer meaning; the more inwardly spiritual have it entirely according to the inner meaning; and the heavenly [angels] according to the innermost meaning. In their Word there are no names or numbers, but in place of them realities. Those who desire to be intelligent and wise can be instructed from the Word about the details. In place of the story of creation, it treats there of the new creation of a human being.

  
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Thanks to the Academy of the New Church, and Bryn Athyn College, for the permission to use this translation.

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Revelation 5:8

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8 Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.