The Bible

 

Genesis 1:29

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29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

Commentary

 

Resurrection, the first

  

'The first resurrection,' mentioned in Revelation 20:5, 6, does not mean a first resurrection, but the essence and primary part of resurrection, which is salvation and eternal life. There is only one resurrection to life. A second does not happen, and is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible.

(References: Apocalypse Explained 6; Apocalypse Revealed 851; Revelation 20:5-6)

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Arcana Coelestia #6808

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6808. What the spirits from the planet Mercury correlate with in the Grand Man has also been revealed to me from heaven. They correlate with the memory, but the memory of things devoid of any earthly or merely material associations. But since I have been allowed to talk to those spirits, doing so for quite a number of weeks, to discover what kind of people they are, and to find out what the situation is with the inhabitants of that planet, I would like to describe my actual experiences.

  
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