{"id":12050,"date":"2016-07-31T17:15:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T21:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordstudy.newchurch.org\/?page_id=12050"},"modified":"2016-07-31T17:15:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T21:15:44","slug":"garden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/wordstudy\/bible-keywords\/garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Swedenborg<\/a>,\u00a0plants in general represent knowledge<\/a>, ideas and concepts \u2013 things of the mind, things we think. Plant the best and most beautiful of those in one place, give them plenty of water (truth<\/a> from the Lord<\/a> about day-to-day things<\/a>), plenty of sunlight (the Lord\u2019s wisdom<\/a>) and warmth (the Lord\u2019s love<\/a>), tend them to keep the weeds (false ideas<\/a>) out, and you get a garden. So it makes sense that a garden in the Bible<\/a> represents our intellect, or what is commonly referred to in Swedenborg as our understanding<\/a>, where with proper care we can nurture the best and most useful ideas and ways of thinking.<\/p>\n

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Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 98<\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. Verse 8 And Jehovah God planted a\u00a0garden\u00a0in Eden, from the east, and there He put the man whom He had formed.<\/span>
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    \n<\/span>‘Garden’ means intelligence, ‘Eden’ love, ‘the east’ the Lord. ‘Agarden\u00a0in Eden, from the east’ therefore means celestial man’s intelligence which flows in by way of love, from the Lord.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 1588<\/b><\/p>\n

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    1. ‘Like the\u00a0garden\u00a0of Jehovah’ means the rational concepts in the external man. This is clear from the meaning of ‘the\u00a0garden\u00a0of Jehovah’ as intelligence, dealt with in 100, consequently the rational which comes in between the internal man and the external man. The rational is intelligence as it exists in the external man. It is called ‘the\u00a0garden\u00a0of Jehovah’ when the rational is celestial, that is, when it has a celestial origin, as was the case with the Most Ancient Church. This is described in Isaiah as follows,<\/span>
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      \n<\/span>Jehovah will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places, and will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like thegarden\u00a0of ]Jehovah. Joy and gladness will be found in her, confession and the voice of song. Isa. 51:3.<\/span>
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      \n<\/span>When however the rational is spiritual, that is, when it has a spiritual origin, as was the case with the Ancient Church, the expression ‘the\u00a0garden\u00a0of God’ is used, as in Ezekiel,<\/span>
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      \n<\/span>\u00a0Full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty, you were in Eden, thegarden\u00a0of God. Ezek. 28:12, 13.<\/span>
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      \n<\/span>\u00a0A person’s rational is compared to a\u00a0garden\u00a0because this is how it is represented in heaven. It is man’s rational that manifests itself in just this way when that which is celestial-spiritual flows into it from the Lord. Indeed it is this which presents to view the paradise gardens whose magnificence and beauty surpass everything the human mind can imagine. This is the effect which the influx of celestial-spiritual light from the Lord produces, as dealt with already in 1042, 1043. It is not the loveliness and beauty of these gardens that stir the emotions but the celestial-spiritual elements that live within them.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 100<\/b><\/p>\n

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      1. That ‘a\u00a0garden’ means intelligence and ‘Eden’ love, is also evident in Isaiah,<\/span>
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        \n<\/span>Jehovah will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places, and will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like theGarden\u00a0of Jehovah. Joy and gladness will be found in her, confession and the voice of song. Isa. 51:3.<\/span>
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        \n<\/span>Here ‘wilderness’, ‘joy’, and ‘confession’ are terms used by the prophet to express the celestial things of faith, that is, things that belong to love. But ‘desert’, ‘gladness’, and ‘the voice of song’ express the spiritual things of faith, which in turn are matters of the understanding. The former relate to ‘Eden’, the latter to ‘a\u00a0garden’. For throughout this prophet dual expressions for the same thing are constantly occurring, with one expression meaning celestial things, the other spiritual. For more about what the\u00a0garden\u00a0in Eden means, see at verse to below.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        Heaven and Hell (Dole) n. 111<\/b><\/p>\n

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        1. There is a similar correspondence with things in the vegetable kingdom. A\u00a0garden, in general terms, corresponds to heaven in respect to intelligence and wisdom, which is why heaven is called the\u00a0garden\u00a0of God and a paradise,(d) and why we call it a heavenly paradise.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          That the Paradise of God is the truth of wisdom and faith is apparent from the symbolic meaning of a\u00a0garden\u00a0in the Word. Agarden\u00a0there symbolizes wisdom and intelligence, because trees symbolize the people of the church, and their fruits goods of life. That is what the\u00a0Garden\u00a0of Eden symbolizes, for it describes the wisdom of Adam.<\/span>
          \n<\/span>[2] The\u00a0garden\u00a0of God in Ezekiel has the same meaning:<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0With your wisdom and your understanding you have gained riches for yourself…. You were in Eden, the\u00a0garden\u00a0of God; every precious stone was your covering…. (Ezekiel 28:4, 13)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0The subject is Tyre, which symbolizes the church in respect to its concepts of truth and good, thus in respect to its intelligence. Accordingly it is said, “With your wisdom and your understanding you have gained riches for yourself.” The precious stones which served as its covering symbolize truths of intelligence.<\/span>
          \n<\/span>[3] In the same book:<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon…. The cedars in the\u00a0garden\u00a0of God did not hide it…. No tree in the\u00a0garden\u00a0of God was like it in beauty…. All the trees of Eden envied it…in the\u00a0garden\u00a0of God. (Ezekiel 31:3, 8, 9)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0This is said of Egypt and Assyria, because Egypt symbolizes knowledge, and Assyria rationality, which leads to intelligence. A cedar has a similar symbolism.<\/span>
          \n<\/span>But because Egypt’s rationality led also to a conceit in its own intelligence, therefore it is said of it,<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0To which of the trees in Eden were you then likened in glory and greatness, when you were brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth below, and you lay in the midst of the uncircumcised…? (Ezekiel 31:18)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0The uncircumcised are people who lack the goodness of charity.<\/span>
          \n<\/span>[4] In Isaiah:<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0…Jehovah will comfort Zion…, and make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the\u00a0garden\u00a0of Jehovah. (Isaiah 51:3)<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0Zion there is the church. The wilderness and desert are a deficiency of truth and ignorance of it. Eden and the\u00a0garden\u00a0of God are wisdom and intelligence.<\/span>
          \n<\/span>Wisdom and intelligence are also symbolically meant by a\u00a0gardenin Isaiah 58:11, 61:11, Jeremiah 31:12, Amos 9:14, and Numbers 24:6.<\/span>
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          \n<\/span>\u00a0[5] A person of the church is also like a\u00a0garden\u00a0in respect to his intelligence when he possesses goodness of love from the Lord, because the spiritual warmth that enlivens him is love, and spiritual light is the resulting intelligence.<\/span>
          \n<\/span>People know that these two, warmth and light, cause gardens in the world to bloom. It is the same in heaven. Paradisal gardens are seen in heaven, with trees bearing fruit in accordance with the inhabitants’ wisdom that springs from their goodness of love from the Lord. But around people who possess intelligence without the goodness of love, no gardens are seen, but grass, while around those whose faith is divorced from charity, not even grass is seen, but sand.<\/span><\/p>\n

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          According to Swedenborg,\u00a0plants in general represent knowledge, ideas and concepts \u2013 things of the mind, things we think. Plant the best and most beautiful of those in one place, give them plenty of water (truth from the Lord about day-to-day things), plenty of sunlight (the Lord\u2019s wisdom) and warmth (the Lord\u2019s love), tend them to […]<\/p>\n

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