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Arcana Coelestia (Volume 8); The Heavenly Arcana Contained in the Holy Scriptures or Word of the Lord Unfolded Beginning With the Book of Genesis ... in the Heaven of Angels. Translated From the
Emanuel Swedenborg
Paperback. General Books LLC 2012-01-03.
ISBN 9781153940214
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1873. Excerpt: ... itself does not appear in heaven, but only the light in which is flame, which is thus perceived as heat, which is love; the sound being heard as the sound of great waters, signifies the quality of Divine Truth in heaven; in like manner its voice as the voice of wheels, and as the voice of Schaddai, for sound and voice are attributed to Divine Truth; it is therefore said the voice of great waters, because waters are truths, n. 2702, 3058, 3424, 4976, 5668, 8137, 8138, 8568; also the voice of wheels, because wheels denote the truths of doctrinals by reason that chariots denote doctrines of truth, n. 5321, 5945, 8146, 8148, 8215; also the voice of the God Schaddai, because the God Schaddai denotes truth chiding in temptations and afterwards comforting, n. 1992, 4572, 5628; the likeness of the hands of a man beneath the wings, signified the omnipotence which pertains to Divine Truth, because hands denote power, and in the supreme sense omnipotence, when they are attributed to the Lord. From these considerations it may be manifest what was represented by the wings of the cherubs, which were over the propitiatory, which was over the ark of the covenant, and by their being expanded upwards, and covering the propitiatory, Exod. xxv. 20; also what the cherubs represented on the curtains of the tabernacle, and on the vail; and also in the temple of Solomon; m like manner what they represented around the new house spoken of in Ezekiel, chap. xli. 18, 19, 20; also what is signified by the four animals about the throne, each of which had for itself six wings round about, Rev. iv. 8; and what bv the seraphim standing above the throne, ueach of which h"ad six wings, " Isaiah vi. 1, 2. That wings in the internal sense denote spiritual truths or the truths of faith, is manifest from Ezekiel, "Thus saith th
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