664. And after three days and a half.- That this signifies when completed, thus the end of the old church, and the beginning of a new church, is evident from the signification of three days and a half, as denoting fulness or completion at the end of the old church, when there is the beginning of a new church, concerning which see above (n. 658). The reason why it is said, after three days and a half, is, that days, in the Word, signify states, here, the last state of the church. For all times, in the Word, as hours, days, weeks, months, years, and ages, signify states in the Word, as in this case, the last state of the church, when there is no longer any good of love or truth of faith remaining. Because days signify states, and since in the first chapter of Genesis the establishment of the Most Ancient Church is treated of which was accomplished successively from one state to another, therefore it is said there that there was evening and there was morning the first, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, and sixth days, unto the seventh, when it was completed (Genesis 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31), and the days there do not mean days, but the successive states of the regeneration of men at that time, and the consequent establishment of the church with them. So also elsewhere in the Word.

2487. I have been informed that the exterior memory regarded in itself is no more than some organic thing formed from the objects of the senses - especially those of sight and of hearing - within those substances which are the first origins of fibres. And it is according to the impressions left by those objects that the differences in form which are reproduced are effected. And those forms vary and change according to changes in state of a person's affections and persuasions. The interior memory is in a similar way something organic, though purer and more perfect. It is formed from the objects of interior sight, which objects have been organized into definite patterns within an order that lies beyond comprehension.