347. * experience, that nothing could be truer. But how the spirits are arranged, cannot be explained; for this takes place with ineffable variation, depending upon the genius of each person, and, of course, depending upon their state, both their permanent state and the changing one. [Lord; Order; Universe]
7105. [Num. 13:] verse 21. These places were toward the south, for we read in the very next verse, as previously [verse 17], "and they went up by the south," thus coming gradually into light, that is, into a spiritual knowledge of how things are in detail. So the "wilderness of Zin" is a state like shade, for which reason it is called a desert, but it is morning shade; while Rehob is daybreak, or the morning light. Even "to Hamath," finally "to Hebron," as follows [verse 22], means where there is noonday light. But all this has regard only to spiritual knowledge, or the light of such knowledge, when a person is as described earlier [WE 7096]. Even the enemy has this light in that heaven, but it is entirely outside of him. For they admit that they know how things are, and even that they believe the spiritual knowledge,
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