27. Verse 9 And God said, Let the waters under heaven be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so.

Once a person knows of the existence of the internal man and of the external man, and knows that, contrary to appearance, truths and goods flow in from the internal man, or from the Lord by way of the internal into the external, then the things residing in him as cognitions of truth and good are stored away in his memory and registered among the facts there. For anything that finds its way into the memory or the external man, whether natural, spiritual, or celestial, lodges there as known fact, and from that place it is brought out by the Lord. These cognitions are 'the waters gathered together to one place' and are called 'seas'. But the external man itself is called 'the dry land' and immediately afterwards 'earth', as in the verses that follow.

2452. 'That which grew in the ground' means everything that is part of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'that which grew' - 'that which grew' being used to mean both crops and every green thing, by which are meant goods and truths, as is evident from the Word in all parts - and from the meaning of 'the ground' as the Church, dealt with in 566, 1068. That goods and truths constitute the all of the Church is well known.