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Ezequiel 43

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1 Me llevó luego a la puerta, a la puerta que mira hacia el oriente;

2 Y he aquí la Gloria del Dios de Israel, que venía hacia el oriente; y su sonido era como el sonido de muchas aguas, y la tierra resplandecía a causa de su gloria.

3 Y la visión que vi era como la visión, como aquella visión que vi cuando vine para destruir la ciudad; y las visiones eran como la visión que vi junto al río de Quebar; y caí sobre mi rostro.

4 Y la Gloria del SEÑOR entró en la Casa por la vía de la puerta que daba cara al oriente.

5 Y me alzó el Espíritu, y me metió en el atrio de adentro; y he aquí que la Gloria del SEÑOR llenó la Casa.

6 Y oí que él me hablaba desde la Casa; y el varón estaba junto a mí.

7 Y me dijo: Hijo de hombre, éste es el lugar de mi asiento, y el lugar de las plantas de mis pies, en el cual habitaré entre los hijos de Israel para siempre; y nunca más contaminará la Casa de Israel mi santo nombre, ni ellos ni sus reyes, con sus fornicaciones, y con los cuerpos muertos de sus reyes en sus altares.

8 Poniendo ellos su umbral junto a mi umbral, y su poste junto a mi poste, y una pared entre mí y ellos, contaminaron mi Santo Nombre con sus abominaciones que hicieron, y yo los consumí en mi furor.

9 Ahora echarán lejos de mí su fornicación, y los cuerpos muertos de sus reyes, y habitaré en medio de ellos para siempre.

10 Tú, hijo de hombre, muestra a la Casa de Israel esta Casa, y avergüéncense de sus pecados, y entiendan su diseño.

11 Si se avergonzaren de todo lo que han hecho, hazles entender la figura de la Casa, y su diseño, y sus salidas y sus entradas, y todas sus figuras, y todas sus descripciones, y todas sus pinturas, y todas sus leyes; y escríbelo delante de sus ojos, para que guarden toda su forma, y todas sus reglas, y las pongan por obra.

12 Esta es la ley de la Casa: Sobre la cumbre del monte será edificada , todo su término alrededor será santísimo; he aquí que ésta es la ley de la Casa.

13 Y éstas son las medidas del altar en codos (el codo de a codo y palmo). El aro del medio, de un codo, y de un codo el ancho; y su remate por su borde alrededor, de un palmo. Este será el fondo alto del altar.

14 Y desde el aro del medio de la tierra hasta el lugar de abajo, dos codos, y la anchura de un codo; y desde el lugar menor hasta el lugar mayor, cuatro codos, y la anchura de un codo.

15 Y el altar, de cuatro codos, y encima del altar, cuatro cuernos.

16 Y el altar tenía doce codos de largo, y doce de ancho, cuadrado a sus cuatro lados.

17 Y el patio era de catorce codos de longitud y catorce de anchura en sus cuatro lados, y de medio codo el borde alrededor; y el medio que tenía aro de un codo por todos lados; y sus gradas estaban al oriente.

18 Y me dijo: Hijo de hombre, así dijo el Señor DIOS: Estas son las leyes del altar el día en que será hecho, para ofrecer sobre él holocausto, y para esparcir sobre él sangre.

19 Darás a los sacerdotes Levitas que son del linaje de Sadoc, que se allegan a mí, dijo el Señor DIOS, para ministrarme, un becerro hijo de vaca para expiación.

20 Y tomarás de su sangre, y pondrás en los cuatro cuernos del altar , y en las cuatro esquinas del patio, y en el borde alrededor; así lo limpiarás y purificarás.

21 Tomarás luego el becerro de la expiación, y lo quemarás conforme a la ley de la Casa, fuera del Santuario.

22 Y al segundo día ofrecerás un macho cabrío sin defecto, para expiación; y purificarán el altar como lo purificaron con el becerro.

23 Cuando acabares de expiar, ofrecerás un becerro hijo de vaca sin defecto, y un carnero sin tacha de la manada;

24 y los ofrecerás delante del SEÑOR, y los sacerdotes echarán sal sobre ellos, y los ofrecerán en holocausto al SEÑOR.

25 Por siete días sacrificarán un macho cabrío cada día en expiación; y el becerro hijo de vaca, y el carnero de la manada enteros los sacrificarán.

26 Por siete días expiarán el altar, y lo limpiarán, y ellos henchirán sus manos.

27 Y acabados estos días, al octavo día, y en adelante, sacrificarán los sacerdotes sobre el altar vuestros holocaustos y vuestros pacíficos; y me seréis aceptos, dijo el Señor DIOS.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 49

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49. His feet were like fine brass, as though fired in a furnace. (1:15) This symbolizes natural Divine good.

The Lord's feet symbolize His natural Divinity. Fire or being fired symbolizes goodness. And fine brass symbolizes the natural goodness of truth. Consequently the feet of the Son of Man like fine brass, as though fired in a furnace, symbolize natural Divine good.

His feet have this symbolic meaning because of their correspondence.

Present in the Lord, and so emanating from the Lord, are a celestial Divinity, a spiritual Divinity, and a natural Divinity. His celestial Divinity is meant by the head of the Son of Man; His spiritual Divinity by His eyes and by His breast girded with a golden girdle; and His natural Divinity by His feet.

[2] Because these three elements are present in the Lord, therefore the same three are also present in the angelic heaven. The third or highest heaven exists on the celestial Divine level, the second or middle heaven on the spiritual Divine level, and the first or lowest heaven on the natural Divine level. The like is the case with the church on earth. For the whole of heaven is, in the Lord's sight, like a single person, in which those who are governed by the Lord's celestial Divinity form the head, and those who are governed by His spiritual Divinity form the trunk, while those who are governed by His natural Divinity form the feet.

For this reason, too, every person, having been created in the image of God, has in him the same three degrees, and as they are opened he becomes an angel either of the third heaven, or of the second, or of the last.

It is owing to this also that the Word contains three levels of meaning - a celestial one, a spiritual one, and a natural one.

The reality of this may be seen in Angelic Wisdom Regarding Divine Love and Wisdom, particularly in Part Three, in which we discussed these three degrees.

To be shown that feet, the soles of the feet, and heels correspond to natural attributes in people, and that in the Word, therefore, they symbolize natural attributes, see in Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven), published in London, nos. 2162 and 4938-4952.

[3] Natural Divine good is also symbolically meant by feet in the following passages. In Daniel:

I lifted my eyes and looked; behold, a... man clothed in linen garments, whose loins were girded with the gold of Uphaz! And his body was like beryl, and... his eyes like torches of fire, his arms and his feet like the sheen of burnished bronze. (Daniel 10:5-6)

In the book of Revelation:

I saw... an angel coming down from heaven, ...his feet like pillars of fire. (Revelation 10:1)

And in Ezekiel:

(The feet of the cherubim) sparkled like the sheen of burnished bronze. (Ezekiel 1:7)

Angels and cherubim so appeared for the reason that the Lord's Divinity was represented in them.

[4] Since the Lord's church exists below the heavens, thus under the Lord's feet, it is therefore called His footstool in the following places:

The glory of Lebanon shall come to you..., to beautify the place of My sanctuary; ...I will make the place of My feet honorable. And... they shall bow themselves at the soles of your feet. (Isaiah 60:13-14)

Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. (Isaiah 66:1)

(God) does not remember His footstool in the day of His anger. (Lamentations 2:1)

...worship (Jehovah) in the direction of His footstool. (Psalms 99:5)

Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah (Bethlehem).... We will go into His dwelling places, we will bow ourselves at His footstool. (Psalms 132:6-7)

That is why worshipers fell at the Lord's feet (Matthew 28:9, Mark 5:22, Luke 8:41, John 11:32), and why they kissed His feet and wiped them with their hair (Luke 7:37-38, 44-46, John 11:2; 12:3).

[5] Because feet symbolize the natural self, therefore the Lord said to Peter, when He washed Peter's feet,

He who is washed needs only to have his feet washed, and he is completely clean. (John 13:10)

To wash the feet is to purify the natural self. When it has been purified, the whole self also is purified, as we showed many times in Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven), and in The Doctrines of the New Jerusalem. 1 The natural self, which is also the outer self, is purified when it refrains from the evils which the spiritual or inner self sees to be evils and ones to be shunned.

[6] Now because the feet mean the natural component of a person, and this perverts everything if it is not washed or purified, therefore the Lord says,

If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than to have two feet and be cast into hell, into the unquenchable fire... (Mark 9:45)

The foot here does not mean the foot, but the natural self.

The like is meant by treading down the good pasture with the feet and troubling waters with the feet (Ezekiel 32:2; 34:18-19, Daniel 7:7, 19, and elsewhere).

[7] Since the Son of Man means the Lord in relation to the Word, it is apparent that His feet mean the Word in its natural sense as well, which we dealt with at length in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, and also that the Lord came into the world to fulfill everything in the Word and to become thereby an embodiment of the Word, even in its outmost expressions (The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 98-100). But this is a secret for people who will be in the New Jerusalem.

[8] The Lord's natural Divinity was also symbolized by the bronze serpent that Moses was commanded to set up in the wilderness, so that all who had been bitten by serpents were healed by looking at it (Numbers 21:6, 8-9). That this symbolized the Lord's natural Divinity, and that those people are saved who look to it, the Lord Himself teaches in John:

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:14-15)

The serpent was made of bronze because bronze, like fine brass, symbolizes the natural self in respect to good, as may be seen in no. 775 below.

Notas de rodapé:

1. Perhaps The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, The Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem, and The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding Faith (Amsterdam, 1763). But perhaps The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine (London, 1758).

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Isaiah 12:3

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3 Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.