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Understanding Biblical Symbolism


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CITY OR TOWN

A symbol of a center of activity or functioning, upon the buddhic, mental, and astral planes, to which the qualities (people) are attached, and about which they may congregate.

"A city signifies doctrine, because land, and in particular the land of Canaan, signifies the church in the aggregate." - SWEDENBORG, Apocalypse Revealed, n. 194.

"And Cain builded a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch."-GENESIS. iv. 17.

The personality (Cain) having acquired the quality aspiration (Enoch), was enabled to form a mental center (city), and to this fixed point in the mind, aspiration was attached.

 

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ACROPOLIS
ASSEMBLY
ATTRACTION
CAIN
HUMAN BODY
JESUS WEPT
PILGRIMS
STREETS
TOWN