AC 1745 - "Lifting Up the Hand" (Genesis 14:22); AC 1749 - Dominion

AC 1745

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.

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 His Divine Essence,
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.

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 person of the angels
is the Lord's possession;
and so far then as there are no obstructions
on the part of what is their own,
it is the Lord's, and even is the Lord.
But in the Lord,
a plenary conjunction or an eternal union
with Jehovah was shaped,
so that His very Human Essence also 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.