AC 3017 - And Jehovah Blessed Abraham In All Things

AC 3017

And Jehovah blessed Abraham in all things
(Genesis 24:1)

means when all things had been re-arranged
by the Lord into Divine order,
or what amounts to the same,
when the Lord had re-arranged
all things into Divine order.
This is clear from the consideration
that 'Jehovah' is the Lord as regards the Divine Itself,
in which case 'Abraham'
represents the Lord as regards the Divine Human.
Consequently when it is said
 that 'Jehovah blessed Abraham in all things'
the meaning in the internal sense is
that the Lord from the Divine Itself
re-arranged all things in His Human into Divine order,
for when 'blessing' is spoken of
in regard to the Lord's Human
it means those things.
'Being blessed', when it has reference to people,
means being enriched with spiritual and celestial good;
and he is so enriched
when the things residing with him
are re-arranged by the Lord
into a spiritual and celestial order,
and so into the image and likeness of Divine order.
The regeneration of a person is nothing else.

But what is described by the statement
that all things were re-arranged into Divine order
by the Lord within the Divine Human
is evident from what follows in the present chapter.
It describes how His Divine Rational,
represented by Isaac,
which had been conceived from the Divine Good,
represented by Abraham,
and born from the Divine Truth, represented by Sarah,
was now re-arranged into that Divine order,
to the end that Divine Truths from the Human itself
could be joined to it.
These are the arcana
which this chapter contains in the internal sense
and which angels possess from the Lord in full light,
for in the light of heaven
they are plain to see as if in broad daylight.
But in the light of the world
in which a person dwells
hardly anything is visible except dimly
and in some small measure with a regenerate person,
since he also dwells in some light belonging to heaven.