AE 386b,c,d - famine

AE 386b [2] (1)
..."famine" signifies the deprivation of the knowledges of truth and good which exists with those who are in evils and thence in falsities...

AE 386c [11] (2)
..."famine" signifies also the lack of knowledges with those who cannot know them because they are not in the church or in the doctrine thereof...

AE 386d [17] (3)
... "famine" in the Word also signifies ignorance of the knowledges of truth and good, such as are with those who know that there are knowledges and therefore desire them...