Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 8276

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8276. 'And his choice tertiary commanders' means all aspects together with specific details. This is clear from the meaning of 'tertiary commanders' as general headings, under which come particular aspects arranged into order, dealt with in 8150, thus all aspects and specific details. For when the words 'general headings' are used, the particular aspects that come under them and are included within them are meant as well, and also the specific details coming under and included within particular aspects, since without them no general heading is anything at all. A heading is called general on account of them; for they all come under it. So it is that 'tertiary commanders' means all aspects together with specific details. The word 'choice' is used, and by it chief ones are meant, that is to say, chief falsities under which all the rest come.


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