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The good of love is the practice of the Word, of truth
Arcana Coelestia 7068. And they bent themselves and bowed themselves down. That this signifies humiliation, is evident from the signification of “bending themselves and bowing themselves down,” as being the effect of humiliation (see n. 2153, 6266); but that “bending themselves” denotes exterior humiliation, and is that of those who are in truth; and that “bowing themselves down” denotes interior humiliation, and is that of those who are in good, may be seen above (n. 5682). That this is so, has often been made plain from those who are in truth and those who are in good; they who are in truth are as it were rigid, and stand erect as if they were hard; and when they ought to humble themselves before the Divine, they only bend the body a little; but those who are in good are as it were soft, and when they humble themselves before the Divine, they bow themselves down to the earth. For truth without good is quite rigid, and when it looks to good as the end, this rigidity begins to soften; but good is in itself soft, and the truth which is being instilled, as it becomes good there, also grows soft. The reason is that truth cannot be ordered in the heavenly form except by good; hence it is in itself hard; for the heavenly form is most free and makes no resistance; and from this the good with which truth has been rightly ordered is like it; and as above said is soft.
Conjugal Love 56… Our host then said, “Let us now join together in some discourse on wisdom. Let the discourse be concerning causes, and for the present concerning the cause of the beauty of the female sex.” They then spoke in turn. [4] A fourth gave this: “The Lord has taken the beauty and grace of life from man(TRUTH/OUR UNDERSTANDING OF) and transcribed them into woman(THE GOOD OF PRACTICE). Hence, without reunion with his beauty and grace in woman(THE GOOD OF PRACTICE), a man(TRUTH) is stern, austere, dry, and unlovely; nor is he wise save for himself alone, and then he is stupid. But when man(TRUTH) is united with his beauty and grace of life in his wife(GOOD OF PRACTICE), he becomes agreeable, pleasant, animated, and lovely, and thus wise.” A fifth gave this: “Women(THE GOOD OF PRACTICE) are created beauties for the sake not of themselves but of men(TRUTH), that men(TRUTH), of themselves hard, may be softened; that their minds, of themselves severe, may become mild, and their hearts, of themselves cold, warm; and they do become such when they become one flesh with their wives.”
And Jehovah said unto Aaron, Go to meet Moses, into the wilderness. And he went and met him in the mountain of God, and kissed him. And Moses told Aaron all the words of Jehovah, wherewith He had sent him, and all the signs which He had commanded him. And Moses went, and Aaron, and gathered together all the elders of the sons of Israel; and Aaron spoke all the words which Jehovah had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs before the eyes of the people. And the people believed; and they heard that Jehovah had visited the sons of Israel, and that He had seen their affliction, and they bent themselves, and bowed themselves down.
Exodus 4: Verses 27-31.
