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CURSE ON THE GROUNDA symbol of limitation of the activities of the lower nature by moral law, through suffering. "Because thou (Adam) hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life." – Genesis iii. 17. And to the mind (Adam) the conscience directs that, since the emotion-nature (wife) has been apparently led astray, and the moral nature (tree) has been acquired, the lower nature shall become abhorrent, stage by stage, and it shall be a burden so long as evolution upon the lower planes proceeds. "By the man hearkening to the voice of his wife is signified the consenting of the man or rational principle; and whereas the rational consented, it also averted or cursed itself, and on that account the whole external man was averted (from celestial life), which is signified by the ground being cursed for thy sake; to eat thereof in great sorrow signifies that the state of his life would become miserable; and that this state would continue to the end of that Church." – Swedenborg, Arcana Coelestia to Genesis iii. 17. |
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