3143. 'And there is a place for the camels' means a state for all the things which were to serve Him. This is clear from the meaning of 'a place' as a state, dealt with in 1273-1277, 1376-1381, 2625, and from the meaning of 'the camels' as general facts, dealt with in 3048, 3071, which play a subservient role, see 1486, 3019, 3020. For everything that belongs to the natural man has no other use apart from that of serving the spiritual man. This also is why male servants, female servants, camels, and asses in the internal sense mean in particular things that belong to the natural man.

2471. These two memories are entirely distinct and separate from each other. To the exterior memory which is properly man's while he lives in the world belong all the expressions of earthly languages, also all the objects of the external senses, as well as all facts about the world. To the interior memory belong the ideas embodied in the language spirits use, which belong to interior sight, and all rational things from whose ideas thought itself is formed. Man is not aware of this difference between the two because, for one thing, he does not reflect on the matter and for another because he is engrossed in bodily things and cannot so easily detach his mind from them.