The Bible

Genesis 1:15

¹⁵ And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

Commentary

Face of the deep

The face of the deep (Genesis 1:2) signifies the lust of the unregenerate man, and the falsities that originate from it.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 018, Genesis 1)

Commentary

Birds

Photo by Brita Conroy

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