62. The stages and states of the regeneration of man - both of mankind and of the individual person - divide into six and are called the days of his creation. Gradually from being no man at all, he first becomes something, though only little, then something more, until the sixth day is reached, when he becomes 'an image'.

8335. 'And the children of Israel went on dry ground through the middle of the sea' means that those governed by the good of truth and guided by the truth of good passed over in safety through the region of that hell. This is clear from the explanations in 8099 and 8185.