AC 3316 - Pottage - a soup or a stew

AC 3316 [1, 2]

And Jacob boiled pottage.
(Genesis 25:29)

That this means a chaotic mass of doctrinal things,
is evident from the representation of Jacob,
as being the doctrine of natural truth,
thus the doctrinal things which are in the natural person;
and from the meaning of "pottage,"
as being a chaotic mass of such things.

The first state of the person who is being regenerated,
or in whom truth is being conjoined with good,
is that first of all in his natural person,
or in its storehouse called the memory,
there are amassed the doctrinal things of truth
without any certain order.
The doctrinal things therein at that time
may be compared to
some undigested and uncompounded mass,
and to a kind of chaos.
But this is to the end
that they may be reduced to order,
for whatever is to be reduced to order
is at first in this state of confusion;
and this is what is meant by the pottage
which Jacob boiled, that is, amassed.
These doctrinal things
are not reduced to order by themselves,
but by the good which flows into them,
and the good reduces them into order
in exact proportion to the amount and the quality
of its action upon them.
When good first longs for and desires
these doctrinal things,
to the end that it may conjoin them with itself,
it manifests itself
under the appearance of the affection of truth.