AC 1745 - The Lord's States; AC 1749 - Dominion

AC 1745

I have lifted up my hand to Jehovah.
(Genesis 14:22)

That this signifies the state of mind in the Lord,
is evident from the signification of "lifting up the hands."
 The lifting up of the hand to Jehovah
is a gesture of the body
corresponding to an affection of the mind,
as is well known. In the sense of the letter,
those things which are interior, or of the mind,
are expressed by external things which correspond;
but in the internal sense it is internal things that are meant;
here therefore the lifting up of the hand means the mind,
or an affection of the mind. 

[2] So long as the Lord was in a state of temptations,
He spoke with Jehovah as with another;
but so far as His Human Essence was united to,
He spoke with Jehovah as with Himself;
which is evident from many passages in the Gospels,
as also from many in the Prophets and in David.
The cause is clearly evident from what has been said before
concerning the inheritance from the mother.
So far as this remained,
He was as it were absent from Jehovah;
but so far as this was extirpated,
He was present, and was Jehovah Himself. 

[3] This may be illustrated by
the conjunction of the Lord with the angels.
Sometimes an angel does not speak from himself,
but from the Lord,
and he then does not know but that he is the Lord;
but then his externals are quiescent.
It is otherwise when his externals are active.
The reason is, that the internal man of the angels
is the Lord's possession;
and so far then as there are no obstructions
on the part of what is their proprium,
it is the Lord's, and even is the Lord.
With the Lord, however, complete conjunction,
or an eternal union with Jehovah, was effected,
so that His Human Essence as well is Jehovah.


AC 1749 [3]

Dominion from evil and falsity
is altogether contrary
to dominion from good and truth.
Dominion from evil and falsity
consists in desiring to make all slaves;
dominion from good and truth
in desiring to make all free.
Dominion from evil and falsity
consists in destroying all;
but dominion from good and truth
in saving all.
From which it is evident
that dominion from evil and falsity is of the devil,
and that dominion from good and truth is of the Lord.