Pharaoh
'Pharaoh,' in Genesis 40, represents the new natural self. 'Pharaoh' and 'the Egyptians' in the Word, signify the sensory and scientific principles. 'Let Pharaoh live,' as in Genesis 42:16, is a phrase that is employed to say something emphatically, thus to state a certainty. 'Pharaoh and his army' signify people who are in falsities from evil. 'Pharaoh' signifies false ideas infesting the truth of the church. It also signifies scientific ideas, or the natural principle in general.
(References: Arcana Coelestia 1487, Arcana Coelestia 5192; Exodus 16)
Revelation 17:9-11
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Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
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They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while.
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The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goes to destruction.
