AC 3279 - Births; AC 3283 - The Rational

AC 3279

And these are the births of Isaac, the son of Abraham.
(Genesis 25:19)

That this signifies the Lord's Divine rational,
from which is the Divine natural,
is evident from the signification of "births"
as being derivations, namely,
derivations of faith when faith is treated of,
and derivations of the church
when the church is treated of . . ..
But here, since the "births" are predicated of the Lord,
it is Divine births that are meant,
namely, that from the Divine Itself
is born the Divine rational,
which is signified by Isaac being begotten by Abraham;
and that from the Divine rational is the Divine natural,
which is signified by Esau and Jacob being from Isaac;
for by Esau and Jacob
the Lord's Divine natural is represented --
by Esau as to good,
and by Jacob as to truth --
as will be shown in what now follows.
This is what is here signified by the "births."

AC 3283

. . . the rational is that
which ordinates all things in the natural,
and according to
the orderly arrangement of things therein
has them conveniently in view;
the rational being like a higher sight,
which when it looks into
the memory-knowledges of the natural man,
looks upon a field as it were beneath itself.
The light of this sight is the light of truth,
but the origin of the light is from good in the rational.
But more on this subject hereafter.