Arcana Coelestia #41
41. Anything that is man's own has no life in it; and when depicted visually it looks like something hard as a bone and black. But anything that comes from the Lord does contain life. It has that which is spiritual and celestial within it, and when depicted visually it looks human and alive. It is perhaps incredible, but nevertheless absolutely true, that every expression, every idea, and every least thought of an angelic spirit is alive. In even the most detailed areas of his thought there is an affection that comes from the Lord, who is life itself. Consequently all that derives from the Lord has life within it, for it contains faith in Him, and is here meant by 'a living creature'. It then has the outward appearance of a body, meant here by that which is moving, or creeping. To man these matters remain arcana, but since the subject here is the living and moving creature, they ought at least to be mentioned here.
Psalms 95
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O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
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Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
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For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
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In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
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The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
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O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
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For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
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Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
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When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
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Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
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Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
