Manhunter - from left: Will Graham, Beverly Katz, Brian Zeller. Katz and Zeller, in deceiving Will, are helping Hannibal Lecktor in his plan to defeat the second coming of Christ.
In part 70 of the Manhunter analysis, the allegorical relationship between Beverly Katz and Brian Zeller was discussed, including how these two characters represent descendants of Shem and Japheth, respectively. Beginning with Swedenborg's analysis of Genesis 9:18 in Arcana Coelestia ('A.C.'):
Verse 18. And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan. "The sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark" signify those who constituted the Ancient Church; "that went forth from the ark" signifies those who are regenerate; "Shem" signifies the internal church; "Ham" signifies the church corrupted; "Japheth" signifies the external church; "and Ham is the father of Canaan" signifies that from the corrupted church sprang worship in externals without internals, which worship is signified by "Canaan." (--from A.C. n. 1060.)
That "Shem" signifies the internal church, "Ham" the church corrupted, and "Japheth" the external church, [is evident] from what follows, where their quality is described. As in every church, so in the Ancient there were men who were internal, men who were internal and corrupted, and men who were external. Those who are internal are those who make charity the principal of their faith; those who are internal and corrupted make faith without charity the principal of their faith; and those who are external think little about the internal man, but still perform works of charity and sacredly observe the rites of the church. Besides these three kinds of men there are no others who are to be called men of the spiritual church; and because they were all men of the church, they are said to have "gone forth from the ark." Those in the Ancient Church who were internal men, that is, who made charity the principal of their faith, were called "Shem"; those who were internal and corrupted, who made faith without charity the principal, were called "Ham"; while those who were external and thought little about the internal man, but still performed works of charity and sacredly observed the rites of the church, were called "Japheth." (--from A.C. n. 1062.) (emphasis not in original).
If we go by the above, then Beverly Katz and Brian Zeller must represent persons who are not of what Swedenborg calls the "spiritual church", since they are betraying Graham, who was to become Christ.
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The works of Emanuel Swedenborg from the Internet Sacred Texts Archive
Arcana Coelestia, by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1749-56], tr. by John F. Potts [1905-10], at sacred-texts.com. Web. 1 Jun. 2010.
