1026. With every living soul that is with you symbolizes everything in general that has been reborn in us. This can be seen from statements above and below [§§1022, 1036, 1040] and from the symbolism of living. Everything that receives life from the Lord is called living; everything in regenerate people that lives from that life is called a living soul. The extent to which we receive life when we are regenerate determines the extent to which individual elements inside us — both our reasoned ideas and our feelings — have life. This living force in the individual aspects of all we think and say is evident to angels, although it is not very evident to human beings.

1445. Genesis 12:7. And Jehovah was seen by Abram and said, "To your seed I will give this land." And there he built an altar to Jehovah, who had been seen by him.

Jehovah was seen by Abram means that Jehovah appeared to the Lord while he was still young. And said, "To your seed I will give this land," means that those who believed in him would receive heavenly gifts. And there he built an altar to Jehovah, who had been seen by him, symbolizes the time when he first worshiped his Father with a heavenly kind of love.