Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 6734

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6734. 'And she took it' means an eagerness to know. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'taking it (the box)' - since she discerned that it was some crude form of truth among the factual knowledge, 6732 - as an eagerness to know, to know what that truth was like.


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