6105. 'As Pharaoh had commanded' means with the acquiescence of the natural, where factual knowledge resides. This is clear from the meaning of 'commanding' as influx, dealt with in 5486, 5732; but in this case acquiescence is meant, for the natural, which 'Pharaoh' represents, owes its whole existence to the internal flowing into it. Consequently what the natural commands does indeed appear to be a direction coming from there, but in fact it comes from the internal; thus it is an acquiescence. The relationship of a person's natural to his internal is virtually the same as that of a person's speech to his thought. It seems as though a person's speech gives a command or issues a direction; but in fact thought does so.