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Genesis 1:12

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12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

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Psalms 33:6

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6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

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Spreading themselves

  

'Spreading themselves on the earth,' as in Genesis 8:17, signifies the internal self operating on the external.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 913)