{"id":11796,"date":"2016-05-01T22:18:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T02:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordstudy.newchurch.org\/?page_id=11796"},"modified":"2016-05-01T22:18:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T02:18:14","slug":"wind","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/wordstudy\/bible-keywords\/wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swedenborg<\/a> says that in the Bible<\/a>, the wind represents the power of the Lord<\/a> working on us through the heavens<\/a>\u00a0— something that is always happening, but something that can be more or less direct and which can push us in different directions, depending on our spiritual states<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting to note that the sun corresponds to the Lord, that its heat corresponds to the Lord\u2019s love <\/a>and its light to the Lord\u2019s wisdom<\/a>. In the natural<\/a> world, the sun\u2019s heat causes wind by warming the air. In the spiritual world, the Lord\u2019s love causes spiritual wind by acting through heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Bible also talks about four winds, an east wind and a \u201cwind of the sea.\u201d The four winds stand for the whole of the impact of the Lord\u2019s love. The east wind is withering, devastating \u2013 it represents the Lord\u2019s love as experienced by those in hell<\/a>. The west wind represents stopping or turning aside the flow of the Lord\u2019s love \u2013 in Israel the \u201cwind of the sea\u201d would come from the west, opposing the east wind.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Passages from Swedenborg<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apocalypse Explained (Tansley) n. 418<\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. Holding the four\u00a0winds\u00a0of the earth.- That this signifies the modification of its influx, is evident from the signification of the four\u00a0winds\u00a0of the earth, as denoting all the Divine in heaven, of which we shall speak presently; and from the signification of holding them as meaning to modify its influx. But what the modification of the influx of the Divine in heaven means, no one can know but him to whom it is revealed, and consequently in regard to the signification of holding the four\u00a0winds\u00a0of the earth. Without revelation, who would not suppose that by the\u00a0winds\u00a0are meant\u00a0winds\u00a0which the angels held back, for it is said, “that thewind\u00a0should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.” But by the\u00a0winds\u00a0of the earth, here as elsewhere in the Word, is signified all the Divine from the Lord in heaven, specifically the Divine Truth, and for the reason that it flows from the Lord as the Sun into the whole heaven, and thence into the whole earth. Therefore, by holding the\u00a0winds\u00a0is signified to modify influx. But, in order that these things may be more clearly understood, the operation of that influx shall also be explained.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Apocalypse Explained (Tansley) n. 419<\/b><\/p>\n

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    1. That the\u00a0wind\u00a0should not blow.- That this signifies lest the good should be hurt, and the evil rejected before the day, is evident from the signification of\u00a0wind\u00a0as denoting the proceeding Divine, which is the Divine Good united with the Divine Truth; therefore, that “the\u00a0wind\u00a0should not blow,” signifies that it might flow in softly and gently. “That that\u00a0windshould not blow upon the earth” signifies that the good should not be injured, and the evil rejected before the day, for the reason that separations of the good from the evil, and castings out of the evil, in the spiritual world, are effected by various degrees of modification and of intensity of the Divine which proceeds from the Lord as the Sun. When this flows in gently, then the good are separated from the evil; and when powerfully, the evil are rejected.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 7679<\/b><\/p>\n

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      1. ‘And Jehovah brought an east\u00a0wind’ means an agent of destruction. This is clear from the meaning of ‘an east\u00a0wind’ as an agent of destruction. ‘An east\u00a0wind’ has this meaning because it was dry and turbulent, and because it therefore withered the produce of that land, and by its force shattered trees, and ships at sea. This is why that\u00a0wind, acting as an agent [of destruction], describes the effect that Divine power can have. In addition ‘the east’ means the good of love and charity, for the Lord is meant by it in the highest sense, 101, 1250, 3708. Also, being Divine, the good of love and charity is in origin very gentle, and consequently is also such in its movements when it passes into heaven. But when it comes down into hell it becomes rough and fierce, because the inhabitants of hell make it so. Therefore the inflow and presence there of that Divine good not only torments them but also devastates them. This too explains why a\u00a0windfrom the east or ‘an east\u00a0wind’ means an agent of destruction.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 7702<\/b><\/p>\n

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        1. ‘And Jehovah turned an [extremely] strong\u00a0wind\u00a0of the sea means a stoppage of the Divine inflow through heaven. This is clear from the meaning of ‘a\u00a0wind\u00a0of the sea ,which is a west\u00a0wind, as a stoppage of the Divine inflow through heaven. For ‘an eastwind’ has meant an agent of destruction by reason of the Divine inflow through heaven, see 7643, 7679, and therefore ‘a\u00a0wind\u00a0of the sea or west\u00a0wind, blowing in the opposite direction to the eastwind, means a stoppage of that inflow.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          AR 343<\/b><\/p>\n

          [2] Now for the exposition:<\/span>
          \n<\/span>The four\u00a0winds\u00a0symbolize an influx of the heavens. The earth, the sea, and every tree symbolize all the lower regions and all that they contain\ufffd-\ufffdthe earth and sea symbolizing all the lower regions, and every tree all that they contain.<\/span>
          \n<\/span>That a\u00a0wind\u00a0symbolizes influx\ufffd-\ufffdproperly speaking, the influx of truth into the intellect\ufffd-\ufffdcan be seen from the following passages:<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0Thus says the Lord Jehovih, “Come from the four\u00a0winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” (Ezekiel 37:9, 10)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0(There appeared four chariots to which were harnessed four horses.) These are the four\u00a0winds\u00a0of the heavens…. (Zechariah 6:1-5)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0You must be born again. The\u00a0wind\u00a0blows where it wishes, and…cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. (John 3:7, 8)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0The Maker of the earth…prepares the world by His wisdom…. He brings the\u00a0wind\u00a0out of His treasuries. (Jeremiah 10:12, 13, 51:15, 16, cf. Psalm 135:7)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0He causes His\u00a0wind\u00a0to blow, and the waters flow. He declares His Word…, His statutes and His judgments…. (Psalm 147:18, 19)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0It praises Jehovah…, the stormy\u00a0wind, doing His Word…. (Psalm 148:7, 8)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0(Jehovah) makes His angels\u00a0winds…. (Psalm 104:4)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0(Jehovah) rode…upon the wings of the\u00a0wind. (Psalm 18:10, cf. 104:3)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0The wings of the\u00a0wind\u00a0are Divine truths that flow in. The Lord is therefore called “the breath of our nostrils” (Lamentations 4:20), and we are told that He “breathed into (Adam’s) nostrils the breath of life” (Genesis 2:7); moreover, that “He breathed on (the Disciples) and said…, “Receive the Holy Spirit” (John 20:21, 22). The Holy Spirit is the Divine truth emanating from the Lord, the influx of which into the Disciples was represented and thus symbolized by the Lord’s breathing on them.<\/span>
          \n<\/span>[3] A\u00a0wind\u00a0and breathing symbolize the influx of Divine truth into the intellect, owing to the correspondence of the lungs with the intellect, a treatment of which may be seen in Angelic Wisdom Regarding Divine Love and Wisdom, nos. 371\ufffd429.<\/span>
          \n<\/span>Since a closer and stronger Divine influx through the heavens dispels truths in the case of evil people, therefore a\u00a0windsymbolizes the dispersion of truth in them, and thus their conjunction with hell and perishing\ufffd-\ufffdas may be seen from the following passages:<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0I will bring upon Elam the four\u00a0winds\u00a0from the four ends of heaven and scatter him. (Jeremiah 49:36)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0You shall scatter them, that the\u00a0wind\u00a0may carry them away and the storm disperse them. (Isaiah 41:16)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0The breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, sets them on fire. (Isaiah 30:33)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0The workers of iniquity…perish by the breathing of God, and by the breath of His nostrils they are consumed. (Job 4:8, 9)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0…the foundations of the world were uncovered at the rebuke (of Jehovah), at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils. (Psalm 18:15)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0I saw in my vision…, and behold, the four\u00a0winds…were rushing upon the Great Sea. And four beasts came up…. (Daniel 7:2, 3ff.)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0…from a storm of Jehovah has gone forth fury…. It will rush upon the head of the wicked. (Jeremiah 23:19, 30:23)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0O my God…, …pursue them with Your storm, …frighten them with Your tempest. (Psalm 83:13, 15)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0(Jehovah’s) way in the storm and in the tempest…. (Nahum 1:3)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0And so also elsewhere, as in Jeremiah 25:32, Ezekiel 13:13, Hosea 8:7, Amos 1:14, Zechariah 9:14, Psalm 11:6, 50:3, 55:8, and Psalm 107, where we read:<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0…He commands the stormy\u00a0wind\u00a0to blow…. (God) causes the storm to subside, so that its waves are still. (Psalm 107:25, 29)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>[4] It is apparent from this what is symbolically meant in the spiritual sense by the following:<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0(Jesus in the boat) rebuked the\u00a0wind, and said to the sea, “…be still!” And…there was a…calm. (Mark 4:39, cf. Luke 8:23, 24)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0The sea here symbolizes hell, and the\u00a0wind\u00a0an influx from it.<\/span>
          \n<\/span>A strong influx, too, is symbolically meant by the east\u00a0wind\u00a0in Ezekiel 17:10, Jeremiah 18:17, Ezekiel 19:12, Hosea 13:15, Psalm 48:7. And by that same\u00a0wind\u00a0which dried up the Red Sea (Exodus 14:21), regarding which Moses said:<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were heaped up…. You blew with Your\u00a0wind, the sea covered them. (Exodus 15:8, 10)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0It can now be seen from this that holding back the four\u00a0winds\u00a0of the earth, that the\u00a0wind\u00a0should not blow on the earth, symbolizes the holding back and restraining of a closer and thus stronger influx into the lower regions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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          Swedenborg says that in the Bible, the wind represents the power of the Lord working on us through the heavens\u00a0— something that is always happening, but something that can be more or less direct and which can push us in different directions, depending on our spiritual states. It\u2019s interesting to note that the sun corresponds […]<\/p>\n

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