AC 1475-1475 - "Sister", "Wife" and Orderly Progression

 AC 1474-1475

Say, I pray, you are my sister,
that it may be well with me for your sake,
and that my soul may live because of you.
(Genesis 12:13)

"Say, I pray, you are my sister,"
means intellectual truth which is a "sister;"
"that it may be well with me for your sake,"
means that so the celestial
could have no violence done to it;
"and that my soul may live because of you,"
means that so the celestial could be saved.

"Say, I pray, you are my sister."
That this means intellectual truth, which is a "sister,"
is evident from the meaning of a "sister,"
as being intellectual truth when celestial truth is a "wife,"
concerning which hereafter.
These things stand thus:
it is the nature of memory-knowledge
to desire nothing more
than to introduce itself into celestial things
and explore them;
but this is contrary to order,
for it thus does violence to celestial things.

Order itself is
that the celestial by means of the spiritual
introduces itself into the rational,
and thus into the memory-knowledge],
and adapts this to itself;
and unless this order is observed,
there cannot possibly be any wisdom.
In the passage before us
are also contained the arcana
as to how the Lord was instructed by His Father
according to all order;
and thus how His external man
was conjoined with His internal,
that is, how His external man was made Divine,
like the internal;
thus how He became Jehovah as to each essence;
which was done by means of knowledges,
which are the means.
Without knowledges as means,
the external person cannot even become a person.