Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 7

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7. The first state is the state which precedes, both the state existing from earliest childhood onwards and that existing immediately before regeneration; and it is called a void, emptiness, and thick darkness. And the first movement, which is the Lord's mercy, is 'the Spirit of God hovering over the facea of the waters'.

Notes

a lit. The faces


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