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Genesis 1:1

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Apocalypse Explained #60

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60. Verses 12-16. And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden lampstands; and in the midst of the seven lampstands one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the breasts with a golden girdle. His head and his hairs were white as white wool, as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire. And his feet were like unto burnished brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters. And he had in his right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was as the sun shineth in his power.

"And I turned to see the voice that spake with me," signifies, the understanding enlightened; "and being turned I saw seven golden lampstands," signifies, the New Heaven and the New Church, which are in the good of love.

"And in the midst of the seven lampstands one like the Son of man," signifies, the Lord, from whom is the all of heaven and of the church; "clothed with a garment down to the foot," signifies, Divine truth proceeding from Him; "and girt about the breasts with a golden girdle," signifies, Divine good in like manner.

"His head and his hairs were white," signifies His Divine in primaries and ultimates; "as white wool, as snow," signifies as to good and truth there; "and His eyes were as a flame of fire," signifies, Divine providence from His Divine love.

"And his feet were like unto burnished brass, as if they burned in a furnace," signifies, the ultimate of Divine order, which is the Natural; "and his voice as the voice of many waters," signifies, Divine truth in ultimates.

"And he had in his right hand seven stars," signifies, all the knowledges (cognitiones) of good and truth from Him; "and out of his mouth went a sharp, two-edged sword," signifies, the dispersion of all falsities by the Word; "and his face was as the sun shineth in his power," signifies, His Divine love, from which are all things of heaven.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Revelation 1:11

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11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.