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Genesis 1:6

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6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

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Arcana Coelestia #62

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62. The stages and states of the regeneration of man - both of mankind and of the individual person - divide into six and are called the days of his creation. Gradually from being no man at all, he first becomes something, though only little, then something more, until the sixth day is reached, when he becomes 'an image'.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #10285

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10285. 'It is holy; it shall be holy to you' means because it is Divine and the Lord's. This is clear from the meaning of 'holy', in reference to the anointing oil, as that which is Divine and the Lord's, the anointing oil being a representative sign of the Divine Good of Divine Love within the Lord's Divine Human, thus a representative sign of His Divine Human. For it amounts to the same thing whether you say the Divine Good of Divine Love or the Divine Human. It is because this Good was meant by the anointing oil and represented by anointing, and because that Good alone is holy (so that what emanates from Him, being His, is holy), that the oil was declared so many times to be holy. See also above in 10266.

  
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