Arcana Coelestia # 6
6. Genesis 1
1. In the beginning God created heaven and earth.
2. And the earth was a void and an emptiness, and there was thick darkness over the face 1 of the deep; and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face 1 of the waters.
3. And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.
4. And God saw that the light was good; and God made a distinction between the light and the darkness.
5. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning, the first day.
6. And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let there be a distinguishing of the waters from the waters.
7. And God made the expanse and He made a distinction between the waters that were under the expanse and the waters that were above the expanse; and it was so.
8. And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening, and there was morning, a second day.
9. And God said, Let the waters under heaven be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so.
10. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas; and God saw that it was good.
11. And God said, Let the earth cause tender plants to spring up, seed-bearing plants, fruit trees bearing fruit, each according to its kind, in which is its seed, upon the earth; and it was so.
12. And the earth brought forth tender herbs, seed-bearing plants, each according to its kind, and trees bearing fruit, in which is their seed, each according to its kind; and God saw that it was good.
13. And there was evening, and there was morning, a third day.
14. And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to make a distinction between the day and the night; and they will be for signs, and for set times, and for days and years.
15. And they will be for lights in the expanse of the heavens, to give light upon the earth; and it was so.
16. And God made the two great lights, the greater light to have dominion over the day, and the lesser light to have dominion over the night; and the stars.
17. And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth;
18. And to have dominion over the day and the night, and to make a distinction between the light and the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
19. And there was evening, and there was morning, a fourth day.
20. And God said, Let the waters bring forth creeping things, living creatures; and let birds fly above the earth, upon the face 1 of the expanse of the heavens.
21. And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that creeps, which the waters produced abundantly according to their kinds; and all winged birds according to their kinds; and God saw that it was good.
22. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas; and let birds be multiplied upon the earth.
23. And there was evening, and there was morning, a fifth day.
24. And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds, beasts and creeping things and wild animals of the earth according to their kinds; and it was so.
25. And God made wild animals of the earth according to their kinds, and beasts according to their kinds, and everything that creeps along the ground according to its kind; and God saw that it was good.
26. And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and they will have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, 2 and over the beasts, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
27. And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28. And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, 2 and over every living thing that creeps on the earth.
29. And God said, Behold, I give you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face 1 of the whole earth, and every tree in which there is fruit, the tree producing seed will be for you for food.
30. And to every wild animal of the earth and to every bird of the air, 2 and to everything creeping over the earth in which there is a living soul, [I give] every green plant for food; and it was so.
31. And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning, a sixth day.
CONTENTS
The six days or periods of time, which are so many consecutive states in man's regeneration, are in general as follows:
Notas de rodapé:
2 Kings 4
1
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."
2
Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?" She said, "Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil."
3
Then he said, "Go, borrow containers from of all your neighbors, even empty containers. Don't borrow just a few.
4
You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those containers; and you shall set aside that which is full."
5
So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought the containers to her, and she poured out.
6
It happened, when the containers were full, that she said to her son, "Bring me another container." He said to her, "There isn't another container." The oil stopped flowing.
7
Then she came and told the man of God. He said, "Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest."
8
It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
9
She said to her husband, "See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually.
10
Please let us make a little room on the wall. Let us set for him there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. It shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there."
11
One day he came there, and he turned into the room and lay there.
12
He said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." When he had called her, she stood before him.
13
He said to him, "Say now to her, 'Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?'" She answered, "I dwell among my own people."
14
He said, "What then is to be done for her?" Gehazi answered, "Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old."
15
He said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood in the door.
16
He said, "At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son." She said, "No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid."
17
The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.
18
When the child was grown, it happened one day that he went out to his father to the reapers.
19
He said to his father, "My head! My head!" He said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."
20
When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
21
She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door on him, and went out.
22
She called to her husband, and said, "Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again."
23
He said, "Why would you want go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath." She said, "It's alright."
24
Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, "Drive, and go forward! Don't slow down for me, unless I ask you to."
25
So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. It happened, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, "Behold, there is the Shunammite.
26
Please run now to meet her, and ask her, 'Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?'" She answered, "It is well."
27
When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, "Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me."
28
Then she said, "Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn't I say, Do not deceive me?"
29
Then he said to Gehazi, "Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don't greet him; and if anyone greets you, don't answer him again. Then lay my staff on the face of the child."
30
The mother of the child said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." He arose, and followed her.
31
Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, "The child has not awakened."
32
When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.
33
He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.
34
He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child grew warm.
35
Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself on him. Then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
36
He called Gehazi, and said, "Call this Shunammite!" So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, "Take up your son."
37
Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out.
38
Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, "Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets."
39
One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of stew; for they didn't recognize them.
40
So they poured out for the men to eat. It happened, as they were eating of the stew, that they cried out, and said, "Man of God, there is death in the pot!" They could not eat of it.
41
But he said, "Then bring meal." He cast it into the pot; and he said, "Pour out for the people, that they may eat." There was no harm in the pot.
42
A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, "Give to the people, that they may eat."
43
His servant said, "What, should I set this before a hundred men?" But he said, "Give the people, that they may eat; for thus says Yahweh, 'They will eat, and will have some left over.'"
44
So he set it before them, and they ate, and left some of it, according to the word of Yahweh.
