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Understanding Biblical Symbolism


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BEASTS, UNCLEAN

Symbolic of the inferior emotions "natural which appertain to the man."

"Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every. thing that creepeth upon the ground, there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah."-GENESIS. vii. 8, 9.

These injunctions refer to the way in which the higher and lower emotions, aspirations, and instincts, are said to go in by two and two, since each is to be perceived by its opposite. They I went in unto Noah into the ark," that is, the emotions entered a certain state of the soul (ark) and were attached to the individuality (Noah).

 

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