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Genesis 1:24

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24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

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Wild beasts

  

'Wild beasts' denote affections and lusts.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 45-46 [3])

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Acts 17:29

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29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.