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<strong>CHAPTER</strong> 2 39<br />
As we continue to study the symbols of the LEFT footprint, we see 3 bars above an arrow-like figure. If we<br />
consider the fish symbol here, it is interesting to read, Jonah 2:6: "I went down to the bottoms of the<br />
mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever; yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O<br />
Lord my God."<br />
Here we find reference to the "earth with her bars". We consider the Earth to be in the third orbit, so the three<br />
bars could stand for that fact. Also in Jonah we find reference to "the earth with her bars was about me for<br />
ever; yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption". So, too, we find the two expanding lines above the<br />
third bar going upward or outward, away from the head of the fish symbol. Also, remember, Jonah was in the<br />
belly of the fish three days and three nights.<br />
Feet themselves, represent the natural, external plane of life in contact with the world; and the feet of the<br />
spaceman represent the contact and presence of space beings with Earthmen and the Earth planet.<br />
Swedenborg says that a fish symbolizes sensual affections which are the ultimate affections of the natural<br />
man. Also, those who are in common truths, which are also ultimates of the natural man. Also, those who are<br />
in external falses.<br />
Their likeness to birds (swimming of fishes; flying of birds) suggests that fishes correspond to affections for<br />
intellectual activity. And what does the fact that they live in the water instead of the air show in regard to the<br />
kind of thoughts to which they have relation? Plainly the fishes of the mind enjoy a lower, less spiritual kind<br />
of thought than the birds. The water, which is their home, corresponds to truth of a natural kind--truth of<br />
natural science, of worldly industries, of the letter of the Word, and of practical right and wrong.<br />
An interest in gathering facts of science is a hungry fish swimming in the water and devouring all the little<br />
creatures which come within his reach. And presently some larger fish swallows up our little fish with many<br />
others like him. So stronger, broader, scientific minds absorb the observations of smaller minds and deduce<br />
from them the great principles of science. There is in ourselves an enjoyment in grasping the broader<br />
principles of knowledge, which feeds upon our special interests in particular subjects. This is a larger fish<br />
feeding upon the little ones.<br />
The interest in knowledge of worldly affairs is also a spiritual fish, which feeds with eager appetite upon our<br />
observations of the world, and may in turn contribute to a noble interest in tracing the Creator's providence in<br />
worldly affairs. So too, an absorbing interest in the external forms of worship, are fishes which may easily<br />
become food for more spiritual affections. But these same fishes-affections for gathering natural knowledge,<br />
are bad when they refuse to minister to the spiritual life, and at-tending only to the evidences of the senses,<br />
fall into many errors which they eagerly confirm.<br />
In Genesis 1:20-21, 26 and Psalm 8:6-8, we see that man on Earth is supposed to have dominion over the fish<br />
of the sea. These can be the spiritual fish (affections) and man is told he must have control over them.<br />
In St. Matthew 13:47-49, we find: "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea,<br />
and gathered of every kind: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good<br />
into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and<br />
sever the wicked from among the just."<br />
In St. Matthew 4:18-19, St. Luke 5:3-11, St. John 21:1-13, we see the disciples as fishers of men. They would<br />
also be fishers in the sense that it would be their duty and privilege to lift men up from the sea of atmosphere<br />
of natural worldly life into the air and sunshine of true spiritual life.<br />
Therefore, we see that the space people are now present with us on Earth and are attempting to lift us up out<br />
of our present stricken condition into a fuller, more satisfying existence, by their guidance and aid. At one