Arcana Coelestia # 9
9. The third state is one of repentance, a state in which he speaks piously and devoutly from the internal man and brings forth goods, like charitable acts which are nevertheless inanimate since he imagines that they originate in himself. They are called a tender plant, then a seed-bearing plant, and finally a fruit tree.
Mark 3:32-35
32
A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you."
33
He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"
34
Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!
35
For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother."
