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Understanding Biblical Symbolism


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A symbol of the ego's forsaking of the higher life for the lower, that is, the turning away from Wisdom's teaching, to effect union with desire and the sense activities.

"Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another, committeth adultery." - MARK X. 11.


The soul which acts contrary to the spiritual law of the evolution of its own being, that is, who forsakes the Divine ordinance at the foundation of the cosmos,-commits adultery.

“To commit adultery and whoredom signifies to adulterate and falsify the goods and truths of the Word.". - SWEDENBORG, T. C. R., n. 313, 314.

 

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COURTEZAN
DIVORCING
FOLLY
HARLOT
MARRIAGE
WIFE
WHOREDOM
WOMAN (Adultery)