Swedenborg Arcana Caelestia Vol. I (1750)

23. And there was evening, and there was morning, the fifth day.

24. And God said, "Let the Earth bring forth the living soul according to its kind; the beast, and the creeping thing, and the wild animal of the earth, according to its kind"; and it was so.

25. And God made the wild animal of the earth according to its kind, and the beast according to its kind, and every thing that creeps upon the ground according to its kind; and God saw that it was good.

26. And God said, "Let us make Man in our image, according to our likeness; and they shall have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the bird of the heavens, and over the beast, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."

27. And God created Man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

28. And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the bird of the heavens, and over every living thing that creeps upon the earth."

29. And God said, "Behold, I give you every herb seeding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth; and every tree in which is fruit; the tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for food."

30. And to every wild animal of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to every thing that creeps upon the earth in which there is a living soul, every green herb for food: and it was so.

31. And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.

6. The six days or periods, which are so many successive states of the regeneration of man, are generally as follows.

7. The first state is that which precedes, as much from infancy as immediately before regeneration, and is called emptiness, void, and darkness. The first movement, which is the Lord’s mercy, is the Spirit of God moving itself upon the face of the waters.

8. The second state is when a distinction is made between those things which are the Lord’s and those which are the person’s own. Those which are the Lord’s are called in the Word remains These are states of good and truth stored up in the internal man by the Lord., and these are here primarily the knowledges of faith which the person learned from infancy. These are stored away and remain hidden until the person comes into this state.