4342. 'And he divided the sons over towards Leah' means the deployment of external truths beneath their own specific affection. This is clear from the meaning of 'dividing over towards' as deployment; from the meaning of 'the sons' as truths, dealt with in 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 3373; and from the representation of 'Leah' as the affection for exterior truth, dealt with in 3793, 3819. Consequently 'the sons' in this case means the truths that belong to exterior affection, and therefore means external truths. The expression external truths is being used for those which are called sensory truths, that is to say, truths which enter in immediately from the world by way of the bodily senses, while interior truths, meant by Rachel's sons, are those which are present interiorly within the natural and more immediately beneath the eye of the rational, and to which misconceptions and resulting illusions cling less easily than to sensory truths. For the more that truths enter in by the interior way the more they are purified from worldly and earthly things.

3374. 'I will give all these lands' means spiritual things. This is clear from the meaning of 'lands' here as rational concepts which, when enlightened from the Divine, are appearances of truth, dealt with above in 3368. These appearances are truths, as has also been shown above in 3364, 3365, and are therefore spiritual. In fact they are nothing else than truths from the Divine, as becomes clear from what has been stated many times about the meaning of spiritual things In the genuine sense the term 'spiritual' is used to mean the light itself of truth which comes from the Lord, just as the term 'celestial' is used to mean the whole flame of good which comes from the Lord. From this it becomes clear that because that light flows in from the Lord both into the rational part and into the natural part of a person's mind, the term 'spiritual' is applicable to both, and that it is the Divine in respect to truth that flows in. From these considerations one may know what is meant in the genuine sense by spiritual, and that there is a spiritual-rational and there is a spiritual-natural.