Arcana Coelestia, Volume 6
Emanuel Swedenborg
- This
- is
- an
- exposition
- of
- the
- internal
- or
- spiritual
- sense
- of
- the
- books
- of
- Genesis
- and
- Exodus,
- according
- to
- the
- law
- of
- correspondences.
- It
- unfolds
- the
- spiritual
- significance
- of
- the
- creation;
- of
- the
- stories
- of
- Adam
- and
- Eve,
- and
- of
- the
- deluge;
- of
- the
- lives
- of
- the
- patriarchs;
- of
- the
- captivity
- of
- the
- chosen
- people
- in
- Egypt
- and
- of
- their
- deliverance
- therefrom,
- and
- of
- their
- subsequent
- history;
- of
- the
- ritual
- of
- the
- Jewish
- religion,
- its
- sacrifices
- and
- observances:—and
- in
- general,
- traces
- the
- foreshadowing
- through
- both
- books
- of
- the
- incarnation
- and
- glorification
- of
- the
- Lord
- Jesus
- Christ.
- Many
- passages
- from
- other
- parts
- of
- the
- Word
- are
- also
- fully
- explained.
- Relations
- of
- things
- heard
- and
- seen
- in
- the
- spiritual
- world
- are
- interspersed,
- explaining
- the
- process
- of
- dying,
- and
- of
- man's
- resuscitation
- and
- conscious
- entrance
- into
- the
- interior
- life;
- the
- nature
- of
- the
- soul;
- of
- heaven
- and
- heavenly
- joy;and
- of
- hell,
- its
- nature
- and
- its
- miseries.
- It
- also
- treats
- of
- the
- Grand
- Man,
- or
- the
- whole
- angelic
- heaven,
- and
- the
- correspondence
- of
- the
- societies
- therein
- with
- the
- different
- organs
- and
- senses
- of
- the
- body;
- the
- origin
- and
- correspondence
- of
- diseases;
- the
- spirits
- and
- inhabitants
- of
- the
- various
- planets,
- and
- of
- other
- earths
- in
- the
- starry
- heavens.
- All
- of
- which
- are
- related
- to
- a
- true
- understanding
- of
- the
- Divine
- Word.
- This
- is
- book
- #6
- out
- of
- 12
- and
- covers
- Genesis
- 32
- - 38.
