Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 9692

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9692. 'And you shall cast for them five bases of bronze' means power derived from external good. This is clear from the meaning of 'bases' as power providing support, dealt with in 9643; and from the meaning of 'bronze' as natural good or external good, dealt with in 425, 1551.


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