The Bible

Genesis 1:13

¹³ And the evening and the morning were the third day.

Commentary

Birds

Photo by Brita Conroy

"Birds" represent rational concepts in the external man and intellectual concepts in the internal man.

Commentary

Creation

Nicknamed 'God the Geometer,' this artwork shows God using geometric principles in creating the earth. It is the Frontispiece of Bible Moralisee, in the Codex Vindobonensis 2554 (French, ca. 1250), in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.

The creation of heaven and earth in the first chapter of Genesis represents the new creation of the celestial church called 'Man'.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 9336, Genesis 1)