Spiritual Experiences-Word Exp. n. 161

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161. m4921. The power of symbolic displays raised up from a person by God the Messiah is most amazing, when a heaven is thus arranged round about him. Otherwise, they effect nothing. And the way in which the angels are arranged providentially guards against any [merely] visual pictures having some effect, or some power. This is the same thing as the cherub, or the cherubs, who guard the way to the tree of life [Gen. 3:24]. But while much more could be said about these matters, it is enough to tell of them in a general way.n [Angel; Order; Spirit] [See WE 4922-25, explaining Exod. 29:1 in particular.] 4926. As for a "young bull," its nature is servile, because it is later put under the yoke, thus standing for servitude in general, and here, for the third class, to whom exclusively this sacrifice - and more to be spoken of later - was strictly adapted. It must, indeed, serve the middle class, just as this must serve the first or innermost class, and this last, God the Messiah directly; exactly as in man, the earthly mind must be of service to the mind devoted to understanding, and this to the soul, for the sake of which both these minds exist. So it is in heaven, which constitutes the greatest, heavenly human being.


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