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"Before being reduced to order, it is very common for everything to fall into confusion or seeming chaos. This allows things that cling together poorly to separate, and when they have separated, the Lord arranges them in their place. Nature offers parallels, since in it too each and every thing first falls into some degree of disorder before being put in order. If the skies did not storm, causing unlike elements to scatter, the air would seldom clear; destructive forces would amass and wreak havoc. The human body displays the same characteristic. Unless all the components of the blood, whether compound or pure, were continuously and cyclically... pumped into a single heart first... the fluid component would coagulate in a fatal way. The individual elements would never be distributed to perform their proper functions. It is the same with a person who is regenerating. [4] The wind — specifically the east wind — simply symbolizes the dispersal of falsity and evil (or, what is the same, of evil spirits and demons) and the organizing of them that follows. This can be seen in the Word, as, for instance, in Isaiah: You will disperse them, and the wind will carry them off, and a storm will scatter them. And you will rejoice in Jehovah; in the Holy One of Israel you will glory. (Isaiah 41:16) The dispersal (of evil) is compared here to a wind and the scattering to a storm. When this occurs, those who are reborn will rejoice in Jehovah. In David: Look! The monarchs assembled; they passed by together; they saw. So they were stupefied; they were bewildered; they rushed away. Terror seized them there — pain like that of one in labor. With an east wind you will shatter them. 3 (Psalms 48:4, 5, 6-7) This describes the terror and confusion that the east wind brings over such spirits. The description stems from things that happen in the world of spirits, because the Word's inner meaning involves such things." #spiritual #spirituality #ordervschaos #god #spiritualgrowth #swedenborgian #swedenborg #newchurch (fb)