Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 5362

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5362. 'And the famine was in all lands' means a desolation everywhere in the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'famine' as a desolation, dealt with above in 5360, and from the meaning of 'all lands' as everywhere in the natural. For 'land' or 'earth' is the natural mind, and so the natural itself, see 5276, 5278, 5280, 5288, 5301.


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