“Genesis 21:19. And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink. "God opened her eyes" signifies intelligence; "and she saw a well of water" signifies the Lord's Word from which truths are; "and she filled the bottle with water" signifies truths from the Word; "and she gave the boy drink" signifies instruction in spiritual things. God opened her eyes. That this signifies intelligence, is evident from the signification of opening—and of God's opening, and also of eyes—as giving intelligence: that eyes signify the understanding, may be seen above, in like manner as sight or seeing. It is said that God opens the eyes, when He opens the interior sight or understanding; which is effected by flowing into man's rational, or rather, into the spiritual of his rational. This is done by the way of the soul, or the internal way, unknown to man. This influx is his state of enlightenment, in which the truths which he hears or reads, are confirmed to him by a kind of perception interiorly in his intellectual. This the man believes to be innate in him, and to proceed from his own intellectual faculty; but he is most exceedingly deceived. It is an influx through heaven from the Lord into what is obscure, fallacious, and seeming with man, which by means of the good therein causes the things which he believes to be emulous of truth. But they only who are spiritual are blessed with enlightenment in the spiritual things of faith. It is this which is signified by God's opening the eyes.”
— The Divine Revelation of the New Jerusalem: Expanded Edition (Hyperlinked Works of Emanuel Swedenborg Book 1) by Emanuel Swedenborg
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