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Understanding Biblical Symbolism


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BLOOD

A symbol of the Divine Life manifested on the lower planes, either in a higher or a lower sense.

"But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat." - GENESIS. ix. 3.

But of the lower desires (flesh-life) with their instinctive rebellion against the higher nature, nothing, to nourish the soul, is to be derived.

"Blood everywhere signifies in a spiritual sense the divine truth of the Lord, which also is the divine truth of the Word; and in an opposite sense, the divine truth of the Word falsified or profaned." - SWEDENBORG, Apocalypse Revealed, n. 379.

 

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ATONEMENT
HAND OF BEAST
INCARNATION (Souls)
INCARNATION (Spirit)
MAHAVIRA-POT
SACRAMENT
SCARLET
SOMA-JUICE
WASHED (blood)