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Secrets of Heaven #103

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103. The reason trees symbolize different kinds of perception here is that the chapter has to do with heavenly people. The situation is otherwise when spiritual people are the topic. 1 The nature of the subject determines the nature of the things said about it.

Footnotes:

1. The phrase "when spiritual people are the topic" appears to be a reference back to §§56-57. [LHC]

  
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The Bible

 

Genesis 2:9

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9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.