8212. 'That Jehovah looked out onto the camp of the Egyptians' means Divine influx reaching out from Him in the direction of those who were attempting to do violence by means of falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'looking out', when it has reference to Jehovah, as influx reaching out from Him (for by the Lord's looking out onto someone His flowing in is clearly meant, since He makes Himself present at that time and imparts a perception of what is good and true to those who are guided by truth springing from good that comes from Him, which is effected by means of influx; and this is why, when angels look at someone, they pour into him the affection that holds sway in their lives); and from the meaning of 'the camp of the Egyptians' as falsities arising from evil, dealt with in 8193, 8196. And since at that time those who were steeped in falsities arising from evil were pursuing the children of Israel the attempt to use force by means of falsities is also meant, 8208.

3483. Everything at all visible in the universe is representative of the Lord's kingdom, so much so that nothing exists in the starry sky above, or on this planet and in its three kingdoms below, which is not in its own way representative. For every single thing within the natural order is an ultimate image, in that the Divine issues forth into celestial things, which are expressions of good; celestial things issue forth into spiritual, which are expressions of truth; and celestial and spiritual things issue forth into natural things. This shows how stupid, indeed how earthly and also topsy-turvy, human intelligence is which separates or isolates natural forces from that which is prior to them and flowing into them - that is, from their efficient cause - and then attributes everything to natural forces. And people who think and talk in this fashion seem to themselves to be wiser than anybody else, that is to say, by their attribution of everything to natural forces. Angelic intelligence however is quite the reverse - it attributes nothing to natural forces but every single thing to the Lord's Divine, and so to life, not to anything devoid of life.

[2] The learned know that remaining in being consists in perpetual coming into being. Nevertheless it is contrary to their affection for falsity, and consequently to their reputation for being learned, to say that natural forces are constantly kept in being, even as they came into being, from the Lord's Divine. Now because every single thing remains in being from the Divine, that is, is constantly coming into being from Him, and every single thing from that source is inevitably a representative of the real thing by means of which it has come into being, the whole visible universe is therefore nothing else than a theatre that is representative of the Lord's kingdom. And this in turn is a theatre representative of the Lord Himself.