Arcana Coelestia #6252
6252. These are my sons, whom God hath given me here. That this signifies that they were from the internal in the natural, is evident from the representation of Joseph, whose sons they were, as being the internal (see n. 6177, 6224); and from the signification of the “land of Egypt,” meant by “here,” as being the natural mind (n. 5276, 5278, 5280, 5288, 5301), thus the natural.