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FAMINE IN THE LAND

Symbolic of a period of mental and emotional inertia wherein there is a lack of sustenance and satisfaction for the soul.

“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord." - AMOS viii. 11.

This refers to a preparatory state of inactivity of the qualities.

"By famine is signified the deprivation of the understanding of all truth." - SWEDENBORG, Apocalypse Revealed, n. 765.

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