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Secrets of Heaven #1439

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1439. Genesis 12:6. And Abram passed through the land all the way to the place of Shechem, all the way to the oak grove of Moreh. (And the Canaanite was then in the land.)

Abram passed through the land all the way to the place of Shechem symbolizes the Lord's second state, when the heavenly qualities of love symbolized by Shechem would appear to him. All the way to the oak grove of Moreh symbolizes his third state: the dawn of perception, which is the oak grove of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land symbolizes the evil in his outer self that he inherited from his mother.

  
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Genesis 12:6

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6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.