Arcana Coelestia volume 7 - Swedenborg Foundation

ARCANA COELESTIA 3743expressions in the Word have also an opposite sense, which isknown from their signification in the genuine sense; and from thesignification of “from upon thee” as being from the sensuous thingssubject to the will part, for these are represented by the baker (n.5078, 5082). That these were evil and therefore to be rejected isevident from what goes before.[2] How the case is in regard to this—that the sensuous thingssubject to the intellectual part, which are represented by the butler,were retained, and that the sensuous things subject to the will part,which are represented by the baker, were rejected—is a secret thatwithout enlightenment cannot be comprehended, but what followsmay help to throw light upon it. By sensuous things are meantthose memory-knowledges and those delights which have beeninstilled through the five external or bodily senses into man’smemory and into his desires, and which together constitute theexterior natural, from which a man is called a sensuous man. Thesememory-knowledges are subject to the intellectual part, but thedelights are subject to the will part; the memory-knowledges alsobear relation to the truths which are of the understanding, and thedelights to the goods which are of the will; the former are what arerepresented by the butler and were retained, and the latter are whatare represented by the baker and were rejected.[3] The reason why the former were retained is that for a timethey could agree with intellectual things; and the reason why thelatter were rejected is that they could not possibly agree. For thewill part in the Lord (who is the subject here treated of in thesupreme internal sense) was Divine from conception, and was theDivine good itself; but the will part that he had by birth from themother was evil; and therefore this was to be rejected, and in itsplace a new one was to be procured from the Divine will part bymeans of the intellectual, or from the Divine good by means of theDivine truth, thus from his own power. This is the secret that ishere described in the internal sense.5158. Verses 20–23. And it came to pass on the third day, onPharaoh’s birthday, and he made a feast to all his servants; and he