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1 Въ началј Богъ сотворилъ небеса и землю.

2 Но земля была не образована и пуста, и тьма надъ бездною, и Духъ Божій носился надъ водами.

3 И сказалъ Богъ: да будетъ свјтъ; и сталъ свјтъ.

4 Богъ увидјлъ, что свјтъ хорошъ; и отдјлилъ Богъ свјтъ отъ тьмы.

5 И назвалъ Богъ свјтъ днемъ, а тьму назвалъ ночью. И былъ вечеръ, и было утро: день одинъ.

6 Потомъ Богъ сказалъ: да будетъ твердь посреди водъ; и да отдјляетъ она воды отъ водъ.

7 И создалъ Богъ твердь; и отдјлилъ воды, которыя подъ твердію, отъ водъ, которыя надъ твердію: и стало такъ.

8 И назвалъ Богъ твердь небомъ. И былъ вечеръ, и было утро: день вторый.

9 Потомъ Богъ сказалъ: да соберутся воды подъ небесами въ одно мјсто: и да явится суша: и стало такъ.

10 И назвалъ Богъ сушу землею, а собраніе водъ назвалъ моремъ: и увидјлъ Богъ, что это хорошо.

11 И сказалъ Богъ: да произраститъ земля зелень, траву, сјющую сјмя, дерева плодовитыя, приносящія по роду своему плодъ, въ которомъ сјмя ихъ на землј: и стало такъ.

12 И произвела земля зелень, сјющую сјмя по роду ея, и дерева приносящія плодъ, въ которомъ сјмя ихъ по роду ихъ. И Богъ увидјлъ, что это хорошо.

13 И былъ вечеръ и было утро: день третій.

14 Потомъ Богъ сказалъ: да будутъ свјтила на тверди небесной, для отдјленія дня отъ ночи, и для знаменій, и временъ, и дней и годовъ;

15 и да будутъ они свјтильниками на тверди небесной, чтобы свјтить на землю: и стало такъ.

16 И создалъ Богъ два свјтила великія: свјтило большое для управленія днемъ, и свјтило меньшое для управленія ночью, и звјзды:

17 и поставилъ ихъ Богъ на тверди небесной, чтобы свјтили на землю.

18 И чтобы управляли днемъ и ночью, и чтобы отдјляли свјтъ отъ тьмы. И Богъ увидјлъ, что это хорошо.

19 И былъ вечеръ, и было утро: день четвертый.

20 Потомъ Богъ сказалъ: да породятъ воды пресмыкающихся, души живыя; и птицы да полетятъ надъ землею по тверди небесной.

21 И сотворилъ Богъ большія морскія чудовища, и всякія животныя, живыя пресмыкающіяся, которыя породили воды, по роду ихъ, и всјхъ птицъ пернатыхъ, по роду ихъ: и Богъ увидјлъ, что это хорошо.

22 И благословилъ ихъ Богъ, говоря: плодитесь и размножайтесь и наполняйте воды въ моряхъ, и птицы да размножаются на землј.

23 И былъ вечеръ и было утро: день пятый.

24 Потомъ Богъ сказалъ: да произведетъ земля животныя живыя по роду ихъ, скотъ и гадовъ, и звјрей земпыхъ по роду ихъ: и стало такъ.

25 И создалъ Богъ звјрей земныхъ по роду ихъ, и скотъ по роду его, и всјхъ гадовъ земныхъ по роду ихъ: и увидјлъ Богъ, что это хорошо.

26 И сказалъ Богъ: сотворимъ человјка по образу Нашему, по подобію Нашему; и да владычествуютъ они надъ рыбами морскими, н надъ птицами небесными, и падъ скотомъ, и надъ всею землею, и надъ всјми гадами, пресмыкающимися по землј.

27 И сотворилъ Богъ человјка по образу Своему, по образу Божію сотворилъ его, мущину и женщину сотворилъ ихъ.

28 И Богъ благословилъ ихъ, и сказалъ имъ Богъ: плодитесь и размножайтесь, и наполняйте землю, и обладайте ею, и владычествуйте надъ рыбами морскими, и надъ птицами небесными, и надъ всякимъ животнымъ пресмыкающимся по землј.

29 И сказалъ Богъ: се, Я даю вамъ всякую траву сјющую сјмя, какая есть на всей землј, и всякое дерево, отъ котораго есть плодъ древесный, сјющій сјмя; вамъ сіе да будетъ въ пищу.

30 И всјмъ звјрямъ земнымъ и всјмъ птицамъ небеснымъ и всякому пресмыкающемуся по землј, въ которомъ есть душа живая, даю Я всю зеленјющую траву въ пищу: и стало такъ.

31 И увидјлъ Богъ все, что ни создалъ, и вотъ, весьма хорошо. И былъ вечеръ, и было утро: день шестый.

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Coronis (An Appendix to True Christian Religion) #23

  
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23. PROPOSITION THE SECOND

The Adamic, or Most Ancient Church of this Earth

The world has hitherto believed that by "the creation of heaven and earth," in the first chapter of Genesis, is meant the creation of the universe, according to the letter; and by Adam, the first man of this globe. Seeing that the spiritual or internal sense of the Word has not been disclosed till now, the world could not believe otherwise; nor, consequently, that by "creating heaven and earth" is meant to collect and found an angelic heaven from those who have finished with life in the world, and by this means to derive and produce a Church on earth (as above, n. 18-20); and that by the names of persons, nations, territories and cities, are meant such things as are of heaven, and at the same time of the Church: in like manner, therefore, by "Adam." That by "Adam," and by all those things which are related of him and his posterity in the first chapters of Genesis, are described the successive states of the Most Ancient Church-which are: its rise, or morning, its progression into light, or day; its decline, or evening; its end, or night; and after this the Last Judgment upon those composing it, and thereafter a new angelic heaven from the faithful, and a new hell from the unfaithful, according to the series of the progressions laid down in the preceding Proposition-has been explained, unfolded and demonstrated in detail in the ARCANA CAELESTIA on Genesis and Exodus, the labour of eight years, published in London; which work being extant in the world, nothing further is necessary than to recapitulate therefrom the universals respecting this Most Ancient Church, which will be cited in the present volume. At the outset, however, some passages shall be adduced from the Word, by which it is proved that by "creating" is there signified to produce and form anew, and, properly, to regenerate; on which account it is that regeneration is called a "new creation," by which the universal heaven of angels and the universal Church of men, exist, consist and subsist. That "creating" signifies this, is plainly manifest from these passages in the Word:

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a steadfast spirit in the midst of me (Psalm 51:10).

Thou openest the hand, they are filled with good; Thou sendest forth the Spirit, they are created (Psalm 104:28, 30).

The people that shall be created shall praise Jah (Psalm 102:18).

Thus said Jehovah, thy creator, O Jacob; thy former, O Israel: Every one that is called by My Name, I have created for My glory (Isa. 43:1, 7).

That they may see, know, consider and understand, that the hand of Jehovah hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it (Isa. 41:20).

In the day that thou wast created, they were prepared; thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou was created, until perversity was found in thee (Ezek. 28:13, 15):

these things are concerning the king of Tyre.

Jehovah that createth the heavens, that spreadeth abroad the earth, that giveth breath unto the people upon it (Isa. 42:5; 45:12, 18).

Behold I create a new heaven and a new earth; be ye glad to eternity in that which I create: behold I will create Jerusalem a rejoicing (Isa. 65:17-18).

As the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall stand before Me (Isa. 66:22).

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: the former heaven and the former earth are passed away (Rev. 21:1).

We, according to promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein shall dwell righteousness (2 Peter 3:13).

From these passages it is now manifest what is spiritually meant in the first chapter of Genesis, by the verses,

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth; and the earth was waste and empty (Gen. 1:1-2).

The earth's being said to be "waste and empty," signifies that there was no longer any good of life or truth of doctrine with its inhabitants. That "wasteness" and "emptiness" signify the lack of those two essentials of the Church, will be established in Proposition IV of this volume, respecting the Israelitish Church, by a thousand passages from the Word: at present let the following in Jeremiah serve for some illustration:

I saw the earth, when, behold, it was vacant and empty; and [I looked] towards the heavens, when their light was not. Thus said Jehovah, The whole earth shall be wasteness; for this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above shall be made black (Jer. 4:23, 27-28).

  
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