Arcana Coelestia #7
7. The first state is the state which precedes, both the state existing from earliest childhood onwards and that existing immediately before regeneration; and it is called a void, emptiness, and thick darkness. And the first movement, which is the Lord's mercy, is 'the Spirit of God hovering over the face 1 of the waters'.
Footnotes:
1. literally, The faces
Arcana Coelestia #3914
3914. 'Go [in] to her' means that with this means there exists the ability to join together. This is clear from the meaning of 'going to someone' or going in, when used in a marital context, as a joining together, in this case the ability to be joined to an affirmative attitude. For the first requirement in that joining together is an affirmative attitude, that is, that the thing is indeed so.