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Genesis 1:3

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3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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Spiritual Experiences #5606

  
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5606. There are four kinds of people there just as in the world. 1) Those who give their attention to the uses in the Word, and certainly see other things but do not give attention to them. They serve as a plane [for reception]. It is read in this way by heavenly angels. 2) There are those who draw the doctrinal points of the Word from it. Spiritual angels understand the Word in this way. 3) There are those who are delighted only by its holy outward aspect without understanding it. These are those who are in the lowest heaven. 4) And there are those who merely give attention to its literal meaning, and these are those who give attention only to the words there, like the critics and those who write about various things. The former are on the threshold to heaven, the latter are in its very remotest parts.

  
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Thanks to the Academy of the New Church, and Bryn Athyn College, for the permission to use this translation.

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Psalms 115:16

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16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.