THE

SWEDENBOR'G- CONCO.RDANCE.

A COMPIJETE 'iVORK OF REFERENOE Tü THÉ

THEOLOGIOAL WRITINGS OF

~m anurI

BASED ON THE ORIGINAL LATIN WRfTINGS

OF TI-IE AUTHOR.

~ompilell, ~llitell, anll m:ranslatell bl! tue

REV. JOHN FAULKNER POTTS, B.A.

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V OLU.l\'lE VI. ST. 1'0 Z. wrfH APPENDIX, LATIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY, TABLE OF REPEATED PASSAGES,.

AND LIST OF ERRATA ET CORRIGENDA.

LONDON:

S W EDE N BOR G SOC lET Y, (INS1'ITUTED 1810)

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1902.

THE SWEDENBORG CONCORDANCE.

PRIKTEU DY MORRISON AlI"D GIBR LUlITED, KOINBURGH.

KEY TO THE ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE CONCORDANCE.-SINGLE·LETTER ALPHABETICAL LIST.

A. Arcana Cœlestia. M. Marriage Love, or Conjugial Love. B. Brief Exposition. N. New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine. C. Doctrine of Charity. P. Divine Providence. D. Spiritual Diary. Q. Nine Questions. E. Apocalypse Explained. R. Apocalypse Revealed. F. Doctrine of Faith. S. Doctrine of the Holy Scripture. H. Heaven and Hell. T. TrueChristian Religion, or UniversaI Theology. 1. Influx, or Intercourse of the Soul and Body. U. Earths in the Universe. J. Last Judgment. W. Allgelic Wisdom cOllcerning the Divine Love L. Doctrine of the Lord. and Wisdom.

SUPPLElVIENTARY LIST. Abom. AboIllination of Desolation, etc. 1 De Just. De Justificatione, etc. Ad. Advel'saria. 1 De Verbo. Ang. Idea. The Angelic Idea concerning the Docu. Tafel's Documents concerning Swedenborg.

Creation of the Universe by the Lord. (At 1 Ecc. Hist. Ecclesiastical History of the New the end of the D.Wis.) Church.

Ath. De Athanasii Symbolo. Hist. Crea. Histor)' of t.he Creation. C.J. Continuation of Last Judgmellt. : Inv. Invitation to the New Chm·ch. Cano Canons. : J. (Post.) Last Judgment (Posthumolls). Conv. Conversation with Angels. 1 Letter. Letter to Hartley. Coro. Coronis. i Life. Doctrine of Life. D.Min. Diarium Minus, 01' Lesser Diary. 5M. Five Memorable Relations. Il

D.Love. Divine Love (Posthumous). P.P. Prophets and Psalm.s. D.Wis. Divine Wisdom (Posthumous). Scia. Doc. Sciagraphia Doctrinre Novre De Conj. De Conjugio. i Ecclesiœ. De Dom. De Domino. . W.H. White Horse.

MISCELLANEOUS ABB.REYIATIONS. Comp. Oomparisons occur in the sections referred to. Tr. Treated of The subject i8 treated of in thal Def. Defined. A definition i8 given. part of the Word which is ullder con· Des. De8c'l'ibed. The subject i8 further described. sideration. Enum. Enumerated. There is an enumeration in This is ta be read signifies.

the passage referred ta of the things mentioned ' 'Quotation mark.. are used exclusivel)' fOl' quota. in the quotation. tions from the Wordo

Ex. E:cplained. The subject is fUl·ther explained. ] Brackets indicate a word or words which haVé Examp. Example. An example is given to illustrate been introduced either by the Latin EditaI' or

the statement. by the Compiler. Ill. IllU8trated. The subject is illustrated by passages ) Parentheses indicate that the matter is to be

from the WOl·d. found in the original, but expressed in different Refs. References are given to other passages of the words.

Writings. 1 e. after a. number denotes that the reference is ta Sig. Signified. The snbject is 8ignified by "ome 1 the very end of the section refel"l"ed to.

. passage from the Word here quoted.

Ali references at the end of quotations mean that the statement is wholly or partially repeated there. References to Works without a letter ta indicate the Work referred to are references ta the Work

last referred ta. The small figures at the upper right hand corner of the larger reference numerals are explained on

p. vii. of the Introduction.

867

Wool Word

Wool. Lana. Woollen. Laneus, Lanugillosus. Woolbearing. Laniger.

A.33016. 'His hairs white like the clean woal' (Dan.vii.9)=the Divine Natural as to trnth. In the ,\\To['(l . .. truth itself was repl'esented by white, which, being from good, is called 'clean woal.' (= His external good. 9470'1.)

3519s. By 'the wool of she.goats' (Ex.xxv.4,etc.) is signified the ultimate or ontermost of inuocence, which is in ignorance, such as thel'e is \Vith the gentiles. (= the goot! that is from the good of mutual Ion. See GOAl', at 9470.)

58952. 'Thou shalt not wear wool and linen to­gether' (Deut.xxii.II); 'wool' = good, and 'Iinen,' truth. 7601 s.

93317. 'The worm shaH eat them like waol' (ls.IL8) ... 'wool'=the 10\\'e1' or exte1'ior goods that are of the sensuous man.

94702. That 'wool' = truth from a celestial' origin, which, in itself, is good. Ill. --. 'My wool, and my flax' (Hos.ii.5) = the

exterual goods of love and truths of faith. __4. Such truth as is in itself good, because it is

the forro of celestial good, is signitied b)" 'wool,' in Ezek.xxvii.18, and iu Is.i.18.

__5. 'Wool'=celestial truth, which, relatiyely, is good. And therefore it is said, in Ezek.xliv.15-18, that 'the priests ... shaH put on garments of linen, and no wool shaH come upoJi them.'

__6. 'Wool'=celestial truth, which is the truth of the good of love; and, as those who are in this truth cannot be in spiritual truth ... it was ordered that no garment should he woru of mixed waol and liuen. 101846. 10669". E·95 17.

996014. 'Wool'=the exte1'ior good of the Spiritual Chnrch.

104027. 'Wool'=good in the externallllan.

10835. The co\\'s (in the Sixth Earth) are wool. bearing, like sheep.

R,47. 'His head and His hairs were white as wool, like sn a\\' ' (Rev. i. 14) = the Divine loye of the Divine wisdolll in primes and in ultinlates. (= as j.o the good and trnth there. E.67.)

__6. It is said 'like wool, and like snow,' because 'wool' = good in ultimates, and 'sno\\',' truth iu u!tinJates; as also in ls.i. 18; for waol is from sheep, by which is signified the good of charity.

M. 754• The man· (of the Golden Age that we saw) was clad ... in a tunic of white woal.

266. One of the two Angels wore a waollen robe that shone with ftaming crimson.

T. 722. Your reasoning is about goat's wool. 3352•

. 5°8'. As the woal of a cloth is destroyed by moths.

D. 1371. The penalty of the woollen veil. 1373. 1410, Gen. art. 3298.

1866. Woolly-lanuginosum. 4357.

E. 67. 'White waal' = good in ultimates ... the

l'eason of which is that the wool npon lambs and sheep has a signification like that of the hail' upor, man; and (these animals)=good. Ill.

37619. 'The wool of Zachar' (Ezek.xxvii. 18)= natural good.

10428. That 'sins ... shaH become as wool' (Is.i.18) =good.

Word. (Verbu~i,-S;; 'ulm (of the Lord), and WaRD-VOX.

~167. The words of the letter are represented in the World of Spirits to the very life, in a beatltiful order ...

312. Words that are applicable solely to the ante­diluvians.

1288. 'The words \Vere one' (Gen.xi.I)=that there \Vas one doctrine in particlilar. For 'Ii]>' = doctrine in general, and 'words,' doctrine in particular, or the particnlars of doctrine.

__2. That 'a word' = ail doctrine concerning charity and the dcr:vative faith; and 'words,' the things of doctrine. Ill. --. 'By taking heed according to Thy ward' ...

Thy word have 1 laid np in mille heart ... 1 do not forget Thy word' (Ps.cxix. 7-16); 'word,' in these passages, = doctrine in general.

__3. 'To ride npon the word of truth' (Ps.xh'.4)= to teach the doctrine of truth . .. 27616.

__4. 'Jehovah sent a word unto Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel' (Is.ix.8) = the doctrine of worship, . external and internaI. --. 'Mail (live th) by every word that proceeùeth

out of the mouth of God' (Matt.i\·.4). 'When anyone hcareth the word of the kingdom, and heedeth it not, then cometh the evil one, and snateheth away that which was sown in his heart' (Matt.xiii.9). 'Heaven and eal'th shaH pass away, but My word shan not pass away' (Matt.xxiv.35). In these passages, 'word' = the Lord's doctrine; and 'words,' the things that are of His doctrine.

--". As 'words' = ail things of doctrine, the com· mandments are caned 'words.' Ill.

1409. The historicals are l'epresentative, and ail the words significative. Ex. 1540. 1783.

1492. It is the atfection that lies hidden in the words that constitutes the internai sense here; the words of the letter are not attended to ...

1642". For the Lord alone is Disconrse and Word.

1785. 'After these words, the word of Jehovah came to Abmm in a vision' (Gen.xv.I)=that after thecom· bats in childhood there was a revelation... Words, in the Hebrew language, =Things, here, the Things ac· complished... 'The word of J ehovah to Abram' is nothing else than the Lord's word to Himself; but in His childhood ... it could not appear otherwise than as a revelation. 1801. .

2587. 'On account of the ward of Sarah' (Gen.xx. 18) =the whole transaction ...

2861. 'It came to pass artel' these words' (Gen.xxii. 2o)=the Things transacted relating ta those who are

W ord-verbu1Jl 673 W ord-verbum

within the Church; 101' 'words' = Things. In the Origir.al Language, Things are called 'words.' Ex. 6219.

3209. 'Theservant told Isaac all the words that he had done' (Gen.xxiy.66) ... 'The words' =the Things.

4126. Thonght and will conjoin, not words. In this worlù words do conjoin; but only when the hearer believes that the speaker thillks and wills what is good.

4692. See WaRD (of the Lord) hare.

4714. 'Bring me word again' (Gen.xxxvii.14)= Knowledge. Ex.

507 S, 'AI'ter these words' (Gen. xl. 1) = al'ter the things that precede; for 'words,' in the Original Language, are Things as weil as words... The reason the words in the Original Language=Thiugs also, is that 'words,' iu the internaI sense, = the truths of doctrine; and therefore ail Dh'ine truth in general is called 'the word.' .. And, as nothing that cornes forth in the nniverse is anything, that is, a Thing, unless it is fl'om Divine gooù by Divine tl'Uth, there­fore the words in the Hebrew are also Things. Ill.

5272. 'This is the word that 1 spake unto Pharaoh' (Gen.xli.28)=that which the Natural had thought ... for 'a word'=a Thing. " Thus 'This is the word'= this is the Thing... As to 'word,' in the Original Language, a Thing is expressed by a word, and there­fore a Divine re,'elation is called 'a word;' and, in the supreme sense, the Lord also; and, by 'the word,' when predicated of the Lord, or of a revelation that is l'rom Him, there is signified, in the proximate sense, the Divine tl'Uth, l'rom which come forth ail Things that are. 5283.

53372. For the words anù tones with which the thoughtis clothee!, are nothing but additions-adjecta ...

56222. '1 watch over My word .. .' (Jer.i.12)=(over) the truth.

5752. 'He spake unto them these words' (Gen.xliv. 6)=the influx of this Thing ... for 'words'=Things; moreover, in the Original Language, a 'l'hing is ex­pressed by this word-vocem. 5754· 5755·

6185. '1 will do according to 'thy word' (Gen.xlvii. 30) = that sa it shall be done.

63192. Spirits do not apprehend a man's words as a man hears them, but as the man thinks.

6982. '1 am not a man of words' (Ex.iv.IO)=that (the truth Divine) has not the faculty of speech. Ex.

,7°58. 'AIl the words of Jehovah' (Ex.iv.28)=the sevèral things of doctrine.

7509. 'To-morrow shall Jehovah do this word' (!f.x.ix.5)=that this will be \Vith them for ever.

7510. 'And Jehovah did this word' (ver.6)= the effect.

7562. 'He that feared the ward of Jehoyah' (ver. 20) = the tliings that are of the Lord. 7564.

7931. 'Ye shaH keep this word. " .' (Ex.xii.24)= that aU this shaH be observed.

8167. 'Isnotthis the word .. .' (Ex.xiv.12)=sueh a thing; for 'this word' = this Thing.

VOL. VI.

8418. 'Gather the word of a day in its day' (Ex. xvi.4) ... 'a word'=the Thing of which it is said, here, the man na.

8466. 'This is the word that Jehovah hath com­manded' (ver.16)=a command about it l'rom the Diviue; for 'a word' = the Thing that is treated of. 85 2 4.

8-l953• The proprium l'rom which the)' will not act, is signified by 'nor speaking a word' (Is.lviii. 13).

8693. 'When they ha"e a word' (Ex.xYiii.16)=in everything that happens; for 'a word'=a Thing that happens. 8698.

8700. 'The word is too heavy for thee' (ver. 18) == that it is not possible; for 'a heayy wcrd' =[a. Thing] that is not possible.

8705. 'Bring thon the words to Gad' (ver. (9) = mediation ancl intercession. 8729.

8717. 'Every great ward they shan bring ta thee' (\'el'. 22) = eyerything l'rom (it). 8]18. 8720.

8772. 'These are the words that thou shalt speak .. .' (Ex.xix.6)=inflnx to receive truths. 8774.

8861. 'God spake an these words, saying' (EX.XX.l) = truths Diyine for those in the Heavens and on the earth. 8862, Ex.

8868'. Wha.t is inwal'dly contained in the words of speech is plainly perceivcd there.

9156. 'Upon ever)' word of transgression' (Ex.xxii.9) = w hatever inj ury and loss.

9160. 'The word coming to God' (,'er.9)=examina. tion by means of truth.

9261. 'From the ,word of a lie' (Ex.xxiii.7)=from falsit)' of eviJ.

9267. 'Pcrverteth the words of the just' (ver.8)=so that they appear like truths of good for 'words' = the Things themsel ves, thus tru ths 'l'he reaSOD 'words'=tl'uths, is that 'word,' in the Original Lan­gUl1ge= that which is something, and that really exists ... From this it is that Divine truth is called 'the word.'

9311e. '1'0 hear the words,' or 'discourses' (Luke Yi.47)=to learn and know the precepts of faith that are from the Lord.

9383. 'AH the words of J ehoyah, and ail the judg­ments' (Ex.xxiY.3)=those things in the Ward that are of life in Il spiritual and a natural state. 'The words of Jehovah'=those things in the Word that are of life in a spiritual state. Ex.

9385. 'AU the words that Jehoyah hath spoken \Va will do' (id.)=reception then in the heart; for 'the words that Jehoyah hath spoken'=truths l'mm the Word that are of life.

9386. 'Moses ",rote aIl the words of Jehovah' (Ex. xxiv.4) =al\ imprinting on the life (of the) tl1lths l'rom the Word.

9401. '(The coyenant) that Jehovah hath made with you upon al! these words' (ver.8)=that there is COD­junction with the Lord through eaeh and aIl things of the Word ... 'AlI these words'=each and aIl thiJlgS

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Word-verbum 674 Word (of the Lord)

of the Ward; for the laws proinulgated l'l'am Sinai, in the universal sense, =all Divine truth, thus the Ward as ta each and ail things.

[A.] 9416. 'The ten words' = ail the truths that are of doctrine, and the goods that are of life. (=a11 tl'Uths Divine in (thll ·Word). 10688.) (=all truths in the cornplex. Life.62.) (= ail truths, for they incllHle thern. R.101 2.) T.286. E.I0242•

9425. 'Everyone that hath words, let him come ta (Aaron anù Hur)' (Ex. xxiv. 14) =that falsities are ta be removed therefrom; 'ta have words'=to dispute about truths; for 'words'=truths.

98181°. 'Ta speak the worda of Gad' (John iii.34)= Divine truths.

__13. 'The words that l speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life' (John vi.63); 'the words' that the Lord has spoken = Di vine tru ths.

__16. 'The word of Jehovah'=the Divine truth. 9987,Ex.

10362. 'Ta speak a word' (Is.Jviii. 13) = ta think such things.

10535. 'The people heard this evil word, and they mourned' (Ex.xxxiii.4)=their grief because they were not ta be pre-eminent ta others.

10604. '1 will write on the tables the words ... ' (Ex.xxxiv.l) = ... interior Divine things, thus those which are of. the internaI sense, (and are) of love and of faith.

10682. 'Write for thyself these words' (ver.27)=the primary truths that are ta be remembered and done. For by 'words' are signified, in general, Things; in spccial, truths ...

10728. 'These are the worda that Jehovah hath commanded, to do them' (Ex. xxxv. 1) = instruction about the primary thing of the Church, to which ail things relate ... fol' these things are said about the Sabbath.

254. Thus the Lord inspired the worda which the Spirits dictated ta the prophets ... And, as the w~ came forth imrnediately frorn tl e-1gr , they were each fi11ed with the Divine, and contain in them­selves an internaI sense ...

<!Y 8. 'The worda of the pr'ophecy' (Rev.i.3)=the doctrine of the New J erusalem. (= the truths t are of the doctrin~oLHeaven. E.14.) ­

~ 805. On those who love mere elegance of words, ~plays upon" words.

1954. The more the meaning of words. is looked at, the less are the words attended ta ...

2040. Looking at words is attendec1 with this-that the mind is distracted l'rom the meanings, and sticks in the words ...

4233. The Angels perceive nothing but the intention, end, or will; they know not their words; and there­fore when the intention, end, and will ... are good, the worda may l'ail as they do l'ail, provided ..• that nothing be saiù except what the'person thinks.

E. 482. 'To hear the word of the kingdom' (Malt. lC111.19) = the truths of the Church.

209. 'Thou hast observed My ward' (Rev.iii.8) = made of life the truths l'rom the Ward. 214. R.179. 185.

2889• 'Ta ride upon the word of Truth' (Ps.xlv.4)= ta act l'rom Divinc good through Divine truth. 298'.

4IlIl. 'Ta do the Lord's words' (Matt. vi. 24) = the good of life; fol' truth, when a man does it, becomes good.

4332. 'If a man love Me, he will keep My words' (John XiV.23) ... because 'His commanùments,' anù 'words'=Divine truths, and ail Divine truth proceeds l'l'am Hirn, and that which proceeds l'rom Him is Him­self.

45512. 'Words' (Ezek.iii.6)=dogmas.

610·. 'The words' that he 'shall speak agaiust thc ~Iost High' (Dan. vii.25) = falsities destroying the truths of the Church.

6173• 'That l may eat Thy words' (Jer.xv.16) = to appropriate His precepts, or Divine truths. So in Matt. iV·3,4.

749. 'Through the word of their testimony' (Rev. xii. Il) = throllgh the confession and ackuowledgrnent of the Diviue in His Human.

7783• 'A word against the Son of Man' (}Iatt.xii.32)

= ta int,erpret the natural sense of the Ward according ta appearances. --6,Ex.

1049·. In a word. 1226. 'These are the true words of Gad' (Rev.xix.9l

=that theyare from the Lord, who is the Ward, and who is the Trnth.

W rd of the Lord. Verbum (DomÏ1ii). See CELESTIAL JŒSE, HOLY SCRIPTURE, IN)(OST

SENSE, INTERNAL HISTORICAL SENSE, NATURALSENS~:,

NEW TESTAMENT, OLD TESTA}IEin, SENSt> (OF" THE WORD), SENSE OF" LETTER, SUI'REME S~;N~E, and SPIRITUAL SENSE.

S~rHISTORY, and INSPIRATION.

See (llso many important quotations under READ.

~ I. That the Word of the Old Testament contains al'cana of Heaven ...

2. The Ward, beinlL the Lord'8 cLiroIILthiLLllId, must necessarily contain interiorly such things as are of Heaven, oLthll C1l-ur..ch, and of l'ai th ...

3. Without such life, the Word as ta the letter is '1 dead; for the Word is like a man who .•. is both )\

exterual and internaI ...

44. It is of the understanding ta hear the Ward, and of the will ta do it ...

65. Certain, when taken up ta the first entrance­court of Hcavell, while l ",as réading the Word ... said that they could not there understalld one whit of a ward or letter, but only what was signified in the nearest interior sense, which they deelared ta be so beautiflll, and in such arder of sequence, and sa affect· iug thern, that they called it la y.

66. The f~ stylesorthe Word. Ex. 1139. D.272I.

129. The true arder is, that a man should receive wisdom l'l'am the Lord that is, l'rom HisWord.. 'fhen ail t ings t"ollow ...

Word (of the Lord) 675 Word (of the Lord)

155. For the Ward of the Lord is such that thc things contained in its inmosts relate a the Lord ... and His Kingdom; this is the sonrce of ail the life of the Word.

167e. Snch is the Ward of the Lord. Dcs. 855. 1264· 3376e.

426. For the Ward of the Lord is spiritnal, not verbal. - - --­

589. The Word has been spoken according ta the appearances with man. --. Ta con/hm false principles by the Ward is one

thing, but it is 1\ different thing ta believe in simplicity what is in the Ward. Ex.

683". Celestial and spiritnal things are sa conjoined in the Ward, that in every particnlar there is a likeness of a marriage . . .

nI. Every word-vox-in the Ward is from the Lord, (and therefore) signifies and involves something.

838. For the Ward of the LOI'd is snch, that wh~r

it treats 01!!LPJrr~n it trea~ of ail men ... with a dlffeï.ence according ta the disposition of each; this is the universal sense of the Ward.

937. (Snch is) the Ward of the Lord in the internai sense. In the sense of the letteI.Jj; aEPear o' le ... yet these things involve arcana ... The very words . . . are ... most general tenus, or vessels (containing) 50 many and snch great heavenly arcana ... that they

( clion never be exhansted ta the ten·thonsandth part ... 11432.

10252. The historical things of the Ward are not perceived in Heaven, but the things signified by them. The Word was wI'itten not for man only, but also for he Angels. When a man reads the "Yard, and a re­

hends from it nothillg but the litel:aLs.l:lls the An els apprehend not the literai, bnt:-~in~al sense.O Examp~ - -­

-t I0432. When (men) have been regcnerated, they do Ilot receive any 'mmediate revelation, but only the things that &Il 'nsiiiiïated_ into them thr0.!!1:h the

(( Word, and the preaching of the Word.

I068e. These doctrinal things (derived from the per­ceptions and revclations of the Most Ancient Church) werc the Ward (of the Ancient Chnrch). 12412. 14092.

1I51". The Word of the Lord does not treat of \\'orldly things, bnt involves Divine things.

1190. The style of the Word-especially the pro­phetical Word-is such that whcn it treats of intel­lectual things, it treats also of volnntary things.

II94. For the Word of the Lord, in its bosom and recess, that i5, in its internai sense, never treats of -other things than those which are of His Kin"dom,

( andtlms a the Church. 1247. 16593.

1408. The Word of the Lord is like a body in which there is a. li . " soul: the things of the soul do not appear while the mind sa inheres in corporeal things that it scarcely believes in the existence of the human

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soul and flie uture life; but as saon as the rnind with­ra\,,"s-from eorpo~ things, the things of the soul nd

life becom~ .ill2,nifest... It is the same ,Vlth the Word -of the Lord. Ex.

3 Many things in the Word are said according� ta appearances, and even aecording ta thc fallacies of� the senses and yet in the internai sense are quite� the contrary Still it does no harm ta those wwn� simplicity of heart believe the Word as they apprehend�

, it in the letter, provided they live1ll charity. The reason is that the Ward teaches nothing else than that ~y.

one should live in charity with his neig.hbour, and should love the Lord above ail things; and they who do this have the internaIs in themselves; and sa, with thern, the fallacics taken from the sense of the letter are easily dispelled.

14292. There is not a syllable or jot in the Ward that� has not an internai sense ...�

1461. Instruction iu Knowledges from the Word.� Sig. and Ex.�

__2. The Knowledges must be from the Word; for� Knowledges from the Ward are snch that they are� open from the Lord Himself; for the Ward is i s IfJ� /l'om the Lord thro~ h Heaven, and thc L().):d~ 'fc is� in each and ail things ~ J:he ord ... whieh shows� that the Lord, in His childhood, "'as llot willing ta� imbue any Knowledges bnt those of the Ward ...�

15022. The Ward of the Lord could not Jlossibly� have any life unless there were aIl jntelJla1...li se which� regards Him. 15402.�

1540". If the men of the Most Ancient and Aneient� Churches lived no,,", and read the Word, they \\'ou1d� Jlay no attention ta the sense of the letter, but ta the� in ternal sense.�

1542. Fol' thc ~~ of !!'e L~cLhas descended.1r m ) 1 Him- rough eaven, and therefore not the least p-art 07 a ward has been written that does not in volve j heavenlyarcana. 1619.�

16592. For not a syllable can be written in tile..JY.ord )� that has not been sent down f' Heaven, and con·� sequently in~hich the Angels d~ seEl h~lly things.� ~3·. If a man- supposes the truths of the Ward ta� be false, and confirms himself sa that he cannat' see otherwise, he may be certain that sneh Spirits (as the Nephilim) are with him ...

16902. In thc Ward Qf.the--LonEsJ.ife ...

1761. Spirits who reject the interior things of the Ward. Des.

1767. On the Holy Scripture, or Ward: that it has stored within it Divine arcana, wh[Q.h J\l·jl--ûpe.n...tl/..gc:>od Spirits and An"els. Gen.art. 1869,continued.===. Vllen the Word of the Lord is being read by a man who loves tl~ord, and lives in-.Jlllarity, and also by a man who in Si~lplicity~art believes what is written, and has not formed principles contrary ta the truth of faith that is in the internai sense, it is' 'preseI!ted by the Lord before the Angels in sueh bcauty -.-.-.and also with representâtives, andth1;wIih inexpressible variety in accordance with ail their state at the time, that every_partieular is j>erceive<! as if it had life; whieh lifii is' that which i~ in the_Word, and, is tha.t from which the 'Ward ~I when it~as N sent down (rom caven. 1769, xamps. 1770. 177!. '1772. 3474· 17· .2053· 2061.

Word (of the Lord) 676 Word (of the Lord)

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[A.] 1771°. Thus when the Lord lills the Word \Vith life, it is of snch efficacy that it penetrates to the inmosts; but when He does not do so, it is the letter only, \Vith scarcely any life.

1773. Spirits who in their bodily life had been delighted with the Word of the Lord .•. have~ki d of delightful heavenly_heat. Des.

__3. But the heat of those who had indeed been delighted with the Word, but had not been solicitous about the understaoding oLit, was only in the right arm.

1774. Spirits who do not \Vant to hear anything about the interior things of the Word, although the)' cao understand them. Des... They interpret the meaning of the Word from the letter according to their fancies ... They are represented byan old WOlllan with an ugly face ... But those who love the interiOl' things of the Word are represented by a girl in early maiden­hood ...

1775. It has been a necessity that sorne revelation should exist ... for a revelation, or Word, is a common recipient v~ssel of spiritual and celestial things, thus conjoining Heaven and earth •..

1776°. The Word of the Lord is a dead letter; but it is vivified by the Lord in the reader according to the capacity of each one; and it becomes living according to the life of his charity, and bis state of innocence, and this with inexhaustible variety.

1783. As each and aU things in the Word are inspired, they cannot but be from a heavenly origin; that is, they must necessarily store up within them celestial and spiritual things j otherwise it \Vould never be the Word of the Lord.

1807°. So he who is in Divine things does not regard the Word of the Lord from the letter; but regards the letter and the literaI sense as representative ...

1869. How rnany things there are in a single word of the Word. Shown. --. The experienee of one who had been delightcd

with the ·Word. 1870. So each of the words of the Word of the Lord

presents' in form its owo ides. ... and in the ideas there are things iunumerable. Des. --'. The Word has beeo inspired, not ooly as to

each of its words, but also as to the little letters of each \Vord ... for in every jot there is something from that affection and life which is cornmon to the whole Word ...

1871. Ho\V the Word of the Lord appears before the Angels, cannat be described, but sorne idea may be formed (from the kaleidoscope) in which beautiful images are represented from thillgs rudely tossed about. . . , So it is with the Word of the Lord, especially the Prophets. In the literaI sense there is scarcely anything that does not appear destitute of arder; but when it is being read ... it becomes more beautiful , .. as it ascends, and at last is presented before the Lord as the image of a man, in which . , . Heaven is repre­sented in its whole compass . , ,

1872. The interiors of the Word represented as in their first asc~nt. Des.

1874. Many things in the Word ... are said accord­ing to appearances and fallacies, .. in order that persuasions and cupidities may not be broken, but bent ... Moreover such things serve as common vessels to coutain spiritual and celestial things ...

1876. The (proper) names in the Word, like ail the words of human speech, perish ... when they ascend

:<015· __2. (Thus) not anything 01 a word that is in the

Word can pass over ta a Spirit ...

1878. Those who have despised the Word j those who have abused the things in the Word as forn~s of speech to provoke laughter; those who have supposed the Word to be of no account except to keep the common people in some restraint; those who have blasphemed the Word; and those who have profaned it, have a miserable lot in the othcr life , .. For the Word is so holy in the Hea\'ens that it is itself as it were Heaven ta the Angels; and, as there is a communion of the thonghts of al!, such Spirits cannot be \Vith them, but arc separated,

1879. Those who hold in hntred the intcrior things of the Word. Des.

1925'. The Angels who spoke the Word of the Lord. Ill.

1936'. In every wOl'd of the Word. , . there are numberless things, more than the uni\'ersal Heavcn j

and the al'cana thercin rnay he presented before the Angels ... with perpetuaI variety to eternity.

2094'. Those who believe the Word in simplicity have no nced to kno\\' al! these things, because they are i'n the end ...

2135, Pref.'. Noue can sec the glory of the Lord that is in His Word, but those who are in faith, its charity, and the good of charity, Sig.

2157. Ih everything of the Word there is an affection and a subject-res. Ex. 2275,Ex. 2802". 3839,Ex.

2162. Reprèsentativcs in the other life, thence with the Most Ancients, and thus in the Word. 2763.

--", The Word. Sig. __o. --'. 3381. 3424. 5576',

2176°. The Word of the Lonl is wriUen uot only fol' man, but also for Reaven together with man, and, in fact, so, that when a man l'eads it, the Angels have from his rearling heavenly ideas, sa that in this way Heaven has been conjoined with the human race. 22092, 2310",

2177B. From this it is eviclent what is the holiness of the Word to those who are in heavenly ideas ...

2179°. The books of the Word have been writtcn (by mere representativcs, according to the style of aU ancient books).

22423. If the sense of the letter '\Vere not according to appearances, no one \Vould understand and acknow· Iedge the Word, thus would not receive it. (Continuee! under INTERNAL SENSE.)

23102, The Word is sent down l'rom the Lord through Ueaveu to man, and is therefore a different thing in its origin.

__3, Would anyone say that the abominable airai!"

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of Lot's daughters ... \Voulel be related in the Divine Word 1 or Jaeob's peeling rods ... unless they involved a deeply hidden Divine rneo.ning 1

__ 4. If it were not for the holy veneration for the books of the Word that has been impressed upon thern from ehildhood (the learned world) would easily say in theirhearts, that the Word is not holy except l'rom that impression; when yet it is ... becallse an internaI sense, which is heavenly and Divine, is in it, which causes it to unite Heaven and earth, that is, angelic minds \Vith human rninds, and thus these with the Lord.

231 I. That the Word is ... distinct from al! other writing, is evident from the faet, that not only do al! the names = Things, but ail the words also have a spiritual sense. (ContilJued nnd~r INTERNAL SEXSE.)

23332• The words of the sense of the letter (are wonderfnlly changed into spiritual and celestial ideas) when it ascends from a man who is reading the Word to the sphere in whieh the Angels are.

234;32. Sneh is the order and series in each and ail things of the Word ...

2362'. (This shows) how pure is the Word in the internai sense, although it appears otherwise in the letter. Examp.

25163. Jn HlC literaI sense, the doctrine of faith appears as if it had many things from the Rational, and even from the Natnral; but titis is because the Ward is for man, and has been aecommodated to him; but still, in itself, it is spiritnal fram a eelestial origin, that is, from Divine truth conjoined with Divine good. 2520". 2547"·

25682. Ta regard the doctrine of faith from rational things, is not to believe the Word, or the elerivative doctrine, until one is persuaded from rational things that it is so; but to regard rational things from the doctrine of faith, is first to believe the Word, or the derivative doctrine, and then to confirrn the same by rational things. Ex. and Tl'.

. 25882. Those think from the affirmative who believe that things are true becanse the Lord has saiel them in the Word .•. __6. Man, bein~ born for both lives, ean, while in

the world, be also in Heaven, through the Word, whieh is for both worlds.

2592. (Delight of a heathen philosopher \Vith the Word on aeeount of its representative style. Its holi. ness affeeted him so deeply that he eould not endure it.) 2593. -Sec H.322.

2686. (Thus) the Ancient Chnrch had writings both historie and prophetie that were Divine and inspired, and whieh in their internai sense treatec1 of the Lord and His Kingdom, and they were the Word to them. 4964~·

2702. Hagar 'saw a wel! of water'=the Ward of the Lord, from whieh are truths.

_5. 'Living water'=truths from the Lord, or from His Ward, for He is the Ward. __6.

.27622. Elijali and Elisha represented the Lord as ta the Word.

2799·. The rider on the White Horse = the Word, thus the Lord who is the Word.

2803·. 'In the bcginning was the Word'-' the Word' = the Divine truth itself-'and the Word was with God, and God was the Word' ... (John LI). (=the Lord as to the Divine Human ; hence al! revelation, and thus also the Word itself, or Holy Scripture. 2894.) (= the Divine truth, thus the Lord Himself as to the Divine Human. 3195•. ) (=a11 truth in the Heavens and on earth that is from the Divine. 370412.) (= the Divine truth. 41806. 46873. 5075. 52722,Ex. . 5922•. 6115". 6723\ 7678.) (=the Lord as to the Divine truth. 8200.) 8535. 9093'. 9144". 93 15•. 9399°. 94293. 100766, Ex. H.137. S.23

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2895. The Word has al ways existcd, but not the Word that we have now. There \Vas another Word in the lIost Ancient Church ... and another Word in the Ancient Church ... ; then came the Word written through Moses and thc prophets; and lastly the Word written through the Evangelists ... The reason there has always been a Word, is that by the Word there is a communication of Heaven with earth ; and because the Word treats of what is good and true, from which man is to live happy to eternity; and on this account it treats, in the internai sense, of the Lord alone, because ail good and truth arc from Him.

2896. The Word in the Most Ancient Church was not a written Word, bllt was revealed to everyone who was of that Church. For they were celestial men, and were therefore in the perception of good and truth ... and thus had the Word written on their hearts. Ex.

2897. From (t1\e representatives and significatives col!ected by those meant by 'Enoch ') was the Word in the Ancient Church. (These) were employed in their Divine worship, in order that they might have corn· munication with Heaven ... ,They had a written Word

1 also, which consisted of histories and prophecies, like the Word of the Old Testament; but this Word was lost in process of time. The Histories \Vere called 'The Wars of Jehovah,' and the Prophecies were cal!ed 'Parablea-l9imntiata,' as is evident from N um. xxi. 14,27• Theil' histories \Vere written in the prophetic style, and were for the most part made np histories. Ill. Theil' pl'ophecies were written like those of the Old Testament. Ill. .. Thus that Word had an internai sense. 2898.

2899. The Word in the Jewish Church follo\Ved afterwards, and \Vas in like llIanner written by repre­sentatives and significatives, in order that it might have an internai sense unL!erstood in Heaven, and that there llIight be in this way a communication ... From this it is, that if the Word be read byeven a little child, the Divine things therein are pereeived by the Angels.

2900. As to the Word of the New Testament ... as the Lord spoke from the Divine Itse1f, the several things spoken by Him were representative and signi­ficative of Divine thillgs, and 'thus of the heavenly things of His Kingdom and Church. ,

29043. The representatives and significativ~s in the Word are thns circumstanced: that, in thé supreme sense, eaeh and all things regard the Lord; and the

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very life of the Ward is from this. And, as they regard the Lord, they regard His Kingdom also, for the Lord is the ail in His Kingdom. Ex.

[A.] 2909. Where it treats of truth, it treats of good also, for the sake of the heavenly marriage in every thing of the Ward. Refs.

29532. There are ideas of man's thought which are the abjects of the spiritual thoughts with the Angels, principally those ... which are from the Ward, because ail things in the Ward are representative ... and it is at once obscl'\'ed. that they are from the Word, because the spiritual and celestial things therein follow most perfectly disposed in their arder; and in bath there'is what is holy from the inmost sense, which treats solely of the Lord and His Kingdom.

3137. The Ward, being tmth Divine, is called 'a fountain. '

3228c. Thus tlle Ward is not Divine as ta its historical things . .. 3229.

3229°. Thus the literaI sense is the Word only from the in ternal sense in i t.

32632. Thc Church has not betn limited ta those who have the Word . .. 3267.

33°1". Ta cali Elisha 'bald '= ta blaspheme the Word, as if there were no truth in it; for Elisha represented tlie Lord as ta the Word. 52476,Ex.

33043. The Word of the Lord is such that the histori­cal things arc in their own serics, and the spiritual things of the internaI sense in theirs, sa that the former may be viewed by the external man, and the latter by the internaI, aud that in this way there may be a correspondence between the external and the internai man, and this by llleans of the Ward, for the Word is the union of earth and Heaven ... Thus in everyone who, when reading the Word, is in what is holy, there is a union of his extel'llal man which is on earth with his intcl'llal ",hiclt is in Heaven.

33052. The Ward is Divine principally in this-that each and ail things in it do not regard one nation or people, but the universal human race, that is ta say, which has been, and which will be; and \Vhat is still more universal, namely, the Lord's Kingdolll in the Heavens; and, in the supreme sense, the Lord Him­self. As this is sa, the Word is Divine.

3310. For the good of life ta be of the Church, there must be doctrinal things from the Word ... (Otller­wise) there is indeed the good of life ..• as alllong the gentileswho have not the Word ...

_._2. 'The seed' =the Word of the Lord. It is the good in man that receives the Word.

3358. See ApPEARANCE, here. 3359. 3360. 3362.

33642. Fol' the Lord is doctrine itsclf,and this is why He'is called 'the Word,' for the Word is doctrine ...

33822. For they who are in Heaven are in the idea that ail things of the Word, in the internaI sense, treat of the Lord; and also that ail things of the Word are from the Lord.'

3393. For each and ail things in the .Word, in the snpreme sense, relate ta the Lord; and the Lord is

doctrine itself, that is, the Word, not oniy as to the supreme, but also as ta the internaI, and the literaI, sense. Ex.

3413°. These are the earthly things with which the Word itself, which is the fountain of ail truth, is obstructed.

3416. For there are internaI truths everywhere in the Word, but those who are in 'the mere memory·knolV· ledge of Knowledges, and not at the same time in the Iife, wheu they read the Word, do not even see those truths... Thus the posterior things of the Word appear ta them, but not the anterior things; that is, the exterior things, but not the ·interior; and (this) is to sile nothing of what is Divine. Sig.

34242. That the Word is living and gives Iife, is because in it, in the supreme sense, the Lord is treatcd of, and, in the inmost sense, His Kingdom ... so that it is life itsclf that is in the Word, and that inf!ows into the minds of those who read the Word in a holy [state] ...

-34322. As to the Word, the case is this: in the Most Ancient time ... there was no Word, for the men of that Church had the Ward written on their hearts; for the Lord taught them immediately through Heaven ... the veriest Word, ta them, was the Lord. After this Church, another succeeded .•. and this, in the beginning, had no otller Word, than what \l'as gathered from the most ancient people, which Word was representative of the Lord, and significative of his Kingdom; thus, ta them, the internaI sense was the Ward itself. They had also a written Word, bath historical and prophetical, which is no longer extant, and in this there \Vas in Iike manner an internaI sense ... 'l'he Jewish ... nation accounted the prophetie Ward holy from the fact that it resembled the ancient Word in sound ... nor does the Christian world have ·a more hol)' idea of the Word.

__3. As it has fared \Vith the Word in this way ... Hs snccessive states are described in this chapter.

3436. Although the Word, as ta the literaI sense, is such that things not true may be confirmed from it ... he who reads the Word for the purpose of growing wise, that is, of doing what is good, and understanding what is true, is instructed according ta his end and affection; for, UnknO\l'1l ta him, the Lord inflows, and enlightens his mind, anù, where he is in difficulty, gives under· standing from other passages. (Continued under SENSE OF LE'fTER.)

34382. For the Word appears ta everyone according ta his qnality.

3439. As ta the Divine in the Word, theease is this: the Divine itself is in the supreme sense of the Word, because in this is the Lord; the Divine is also in the internaI sense, beeause in it is the Lortl'8 Kingdolll in the Heavens, and hence this sense is called celestial and spiritual; the Divine is also in the litel'al sense of the Word, because in it is the Lord's Kingdolll on earth .•.

3445". For the doctrine of charity and love, and life according ta it, is the whole Word, as the Lord teachcs in lI1att.xxii.37-40. .

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3452e. No doctrinal things whatever, provided they arc from the Word, are [to bel denied, for they are accepted by the Lord, provided that he who is in them is in the life of charity, for ail things that are of the Word can be conjoined with this Iife ...

3454. The holy things of the Word are, the Lord's Divine Ruman, love to Him, and love towards the neighliour-these Unee are the principal things of the internaI sense, and are the holy things of the Word ... A fourth is, that the Word, as to each and a11 things of it ... is Divine; thu8 that the Lord is in the Word.

3472. On correspondences and representations, especi­ally those which are in the Word. Gen.art.

3476. The Word has becn given to man and Angels that by it they may be present \Vith the Lord; for the Word lS the medium for uniting earth with Heaven, and through Heaven \Vith the Lord. Ex.

3478. Those who, during their Iife here, have been grcatly delighted with the Word, have such representa­tions (as the tabernacle) presented to their view. Des.

3482. The language used in the Word, although it appears simple, and in some passages rude, is the angclic speech itself, but in its ultimate form. Ex.

35093• For in proportion as the Word pcnetrates ... more interiorly into Heavcn, the more innumer&ble and ineffable the al'cana becomc .. ;

3540e. Sec JOB, hcre. 36.S2. In the Church, or rather in the tract where

the Word is. 3665e. (Origin of the delight felt by a ehild in

reading the Word.) 36863. The Word in the Ancient Church also had

thence the n&mes of places representativc, as had also the Word after their time, which is eal1ed 'M:oses and the Prophets.'

370411. The reason the Lord so spoke (about the F&ther &nd the Son) was that the Word might be received in both earth and Reaven . .. 37°5".

370822. When man suffers himself to be enlightened through the Word by the Lord, his obscurity becomes Incid, for there is then opened an internai way, whereby influx and communic&tion takes place through Heaven from the Lord; but when he does not suffer himself to be enlightened thl'Ough the Word by the Lord, but by his Own intelligence, then his obscurity becomes dark, and thus false; for the internai way is c!osed ...

37352• Thus is evident the nature of the conjunction of Heaven and earth throllgh the Ward; n&mely, that a man who reads the Word holily, is, by such cor· respond«lllces, closely conjoined with Heaven, and through Heaven with the Lord, althougb he be in thought solely about tbose things in the Word which are in the sense of its letter. The Holy itself, that is then with the man, is from the influx of celestial and spiI'itual thoughts and affections, which are such with the Angels.

3768. That all the knowledge and doctrine of good and truth are from the Word. Tl'.

3769. That the Ward had been closed up. Sig. and Ex.

'--. The Word is said ta be c!osed, when understood only as to the sense of the letter, and everything in it is assumed as doctrine; and it is still more closed when the things that favour the cupidities of the love of self and of the world are acknowledged as doctrinal things. Fully ex.

__3. In proportion as a man is in the loves of self and of the world ... in the same proportion the Word is closed ta him. Ex.

__e. Thus has the Ward been closed, when yet the Word is such that it is open e\'en into Heaven, and' through Heaven to the Lord; and it is closed only relatively ta the man ...

3770. That all Churches and their doctrinal things are from the Ward. Sig.

3771. That they opened the Ward. Sig. 3789.

3773. That meanwhile the Ward was closed. Sig. and Ex. --. The case is this. When any Church is being

established, the Word is at first closed to thern, but is then unclosed ... and they learn that all doctrine is founded on the two (great) comrnandments. When these are regarded as the end, the Ward is opened; for all the Law and the Prophets ... depend on them; (so that) the men of the Church are then enlightened in everything they see in the Word, because the Lord is then present with them by means of Angels, and He teaches them, without their knowing it ... Rut in process of time Churches depart from these two commandments, and turn aside ... ta the things that are cal!ed matters of faith, thus from life to doctrine; and, in proportion as this is done, in the same pro­portion the Word is closed.

37862. The Word )las been given to the Church (to prevent doctrinal things from beiug supplied by man's Rational, which, in spiritual and Divine things, is blind and illusive). .

3798. That the Lord, from natural good, has un­covered the Ward as ta its interiors. Sig. and Ex. .. For the Word is uncovered from good. Ex.

38129. That the Word, which is Divine truth itse1f, vivifies the dead. Sig.

383ge. It is evident from this how holy the Word is; for there is holiness in ... love that is from the Divine, and thus in the things contained in the Word.

38574. On this account the Lord h&s spoken in the Word according to the a.pprehension of man ... 4210e,Ex.

3880. 'I will con fess Jehovah' ... in the internaI sense, = the Word, and in the external, .the derivative doctrine ... for al! the doctrine of.love and charity must be from the Word, because, from himself, man knows nothing of things celestial and spiritual ...

38983• The reason the interior things of the Word are now being opened; is that the Church is at this day 50 vastated ... that although men know and understand, still they do not acknowledge ... except a few who are in the life of good,' and are called 'the elect,' who can now be instructed ... But where they are, the Lord alone knows; there will be few within the .Church ." .

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[A.] 39008. The whole Word is called 'a dcscrt,' whan it no longer serves for doctrinal things. Ex.

3901. The comparisons in the Word arc aIl ma.de by means of significatives. 44346

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3954". Thus the Word has been given so as to serve for man and Angels at the same time: in this the Word differs from all other writing.

3993. There are many things (he'rc) that \Vould not be worthy of mention in the Divine Word, unless there were in them more arcane things than such as appear in the letter. Ex.

4°60'. Not that the Lord .has come in person ... fûr the Lord is present in thc Word, bccause a1l things of the Word are from Him and abont Him. Sig. 7

4136", There is Dot a single word in the Word that does not involve a heavenly arcallum, although to man it appears as of no moment ...

41893. Those within the Church arc in good and truth , , . in . the direct line, becausc the)' have the Word, and through the Word there is a direct communi· cation with HeM'en, and through Heaven with the Lord; but not for the gentiles, because they have not the Word ... Tl'. 4190. 4197.

41902. Christians are in what is false in believing that Heaven is for them alone, bccausc thcy have thc book of the Word written on paper bnt not on hearts.

42173. The like is the case ",ith cvel'ything in the Word (as with the symbols in thc Holy Snpper), and therefore the Word is· amedium nniting man with the Lord; and unlcss there "'ere snch a uniting medium, Hcaven could not inflow with man ... and, if it were removèd, no one could he led to good ... That the Church .of the Lord where the Word is, is like the heart and 1ungs . .. Rcfs.

42313. 'My words shall not j);Iss a\Vay' = that (although the extel'nal and internaI ithings of the former Church will rerish) the Word of the Lord will remain... 'Thc words of the Lord' are all things that are in the Word. (Moreover) the Jewish nation has been prcservcd for the sake of the Word.

4279. As the Word is from the Lord, and descends from Him through Heaven to man, it is Divine as to every particu1ar; and, as it has descended fl'om the Lord, so it ascends, that is, is elevated, to Him, anù this. throngh the Hcavens ... (sa that) when the Word ascends as it .desccnds, it is Divine in the Lord, eelestial in the ThÏ1"d Heaven, spiritual in the Second Hcaven, and cclestial and spiritual natnral in the First Heaven. But in the Chnrch with man, the Word, as to the sense of the letter, is natnral, that is, worldlyand earthly. (Continued under RJo:AD.) The supreme sense of the Word, in which the Lord is treated of, is for the Third Heaven; its internaI sense, in which the Lord's Kingdom is treated of, is for the Second Heaven; the lower sense, in which the internaI sense is determined to the nation that is there mentioned, is for the First Heaven; and the 10west or literaI sense is for man ... who is, however, of such a nature that the interior sense, and even the intel1lal and the supreme, can be comlllnnicated to him ...

42803. Incredible to say, the internaI man thinks in . no other way (than according to correspondences), for when the external man apprehends the Word according to the sense of the letter, the internaI man apprehends it according to the internaI sense, although the man is not aware of it 'l'hile he lives in the body ...

43682. Many arc affeeted hy the Word of the Lord, and dcvote much labour to the reading of it; but still there are few who have as the end to be instructed in the truth; for most abide in their own dogma, whicb is the on1y thing that they study to confirm from the Word Those only are in the affection of truth who love to know what the truth is, and to search the Scriptures fol' this end; and no one is iu this affection but he who is in good, that is, in charity towards the ncighbour, and, still more, he who is in love to the Lord.

4383". From this may bc infcrred the nature of the Word, that, being Divine, it contains in it infinite things from its tirst origin, and, derivath"ely, un· ntterable things that are of angelic wisdom; and, finally, only such things as are adapted to hnman apprehension.

43912. Divine revelation, or the Word. Tl'. --. '1'0 hide the interiors of thc Word. Sig. 4442". This is why the Word has been writtcn in

snch a style. But the Word has this peculiarity beyond the \\Titings of thc ancients: that each of the subjects represents, in a continuons series, the hea\'euly and spiritual things of the Lord's Kingdom; and, in the supreme sense, the Lord Himself ... and, what is more, they are real correspondenccs, which are continnons through the tlll'ee Heavens from the Lord.

44442• (The J ews) acknowledge Moses and the Prophets, and thus the Word. This, in itself, is ho1y; but as regards them it is not holy; for they regard themse1ves in e\'erything therein, and thus make tlle Word worldly, and evcn carthly.

4480. \Vhatever has been written in the Word, is spiritual in itseIf and in its essence. It is known that the Word is spiritual, but its spiritnality does not appcal' in the letter, for in this it is woddly, especially in the historical parts. But when it is being read by man, the woddly things therein become spiritual in thc Spiritual \Vorld, that is, with the Angels ...

4690". For the Word of the J;.ord is universal, and 1 comprchends in genera1 every Chm·ch. 47692,Examp.

1 4692. That 'words-vc1'ba' = truths, is bccause ail thc 1 Word in Heaven is from the Lord, and therefore, in

the internai sense, 'words' = trnths, and 'the Word,' in gelleral, all Divine truth. 4703· 5075. 5272.

47202• Instruction by means of the Word. Sig.

4791. Therefore tho~e who love the Word of the Lord, aild desire from it the Knowledges of truth and good, belong to the province of the tongue ... some tothe tongue itself, sorne to the larynx and trachea, some to the throat, sorne to the gunls, and somc to the lips.

4807. For the Lord spoke (in Matt.xxv.) as every· where.i.n the Word of the Old and New Testaments, by representati.....es and significatives; for to speak (in this

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\vay) is to speak to the World and Reaven at the same time ... Such speech i~ Divine, because univel'sal, and therefore belongs to the Word. 5147'.

48146. Fol' whatever is written in the Word is of such a natnre· that \Vith the Angels it is turned into a corresponding sense, which does not at aU appeal' in the scnse of the letter ...

48683. If (the Jews) are told that the Word is ... DlOst holy, evcn every tittle of it, they acknowledge it and conjoin themselves, bnt from such a lust . .. 4911.

4903. The internai sight ... is not in the light of Heaven, \lnless it is in faith in the Lord, and from that faith rcads the Word.

49232. TheJewsalll1 some Ohristians believe that ... in the Word there is some concealcd meanillg, which they cali mystical. Ex.

49266. 'Palace'=the Word.

4966. Primary things for the interpretation of the Word. Sig. and Ex. 5237.

49896. Aftcr death, a man retains nothing of the historical th ings of the Word ... but only the spiri tuai and Divine things that he had learnt from the Word, and had applied to his Iife.

50892. Unless man's thought can be elcvated above sensnons things he cannot underst&nd any interior thing in the Word .

51263, From yonth to early manhood, communication is opened between the Natnral and the Rational ... by llearing and reading the Word.

51362. As the Word could not be \Vritten except by representatives ... even of places ... the Ohurch \Vas successively preserved in the land of Oanaall. 6516", Ex. 7439°.

5275'. Things happened in this way ... chicfly for the sake of the Word, that it JIlight bc written (l"eprescntatively) ... and thus might be serviceable not only to the man of the Church, but also tu the Angels ... for they percei\'c Divine things from it, and so are affected with holy emotions, which al'e communicated to the man who reads the Word from affection, .. 5316'.

53296. The Word has becn given that Angels may be with man ...

5402. The doctrinals of the Church , .. are nothing but seientifics, until one has seen from the Word whether they arc true, and in this way made them his own.

__2. There are two ways of procuring the tmths of faith-by doctrinals, and by the Word. When a man 'procures them by doctrinals only, he has faith in those who havc drawn them from the Word ... But when he procures them himse1f, l'rom the Word, and thereby confirma them in himself as true, he believes thern because they are from the Divine ... When a man il! able to view them from his own judgment, if, then, he docs not consul t the Word, in order to see from it whether theyare true, they remain in him as mere scientifics; while if he does consult the Word, from the affection and end to know truths, he then, when he has found them procures for nimself the

things of faith from the genuine fountain, and they are appropriated to him from the Divine. TI'. 60472.

54324. When such read the Word, they scan it \Vith the sole end of confirming the' doctrillals they have learned, for thc sake of gain; and sorne of them scan the Word that they may 'see the nakedness of the land' . .. 6047".

__.5. But those who are in the affection of truth for the sakc of trnth and of lite .•. have indeed faith in the doctrinals of the Church; but still they scan the Word for no other end than the truth ... for it is everywhere said, Here is the Ohm·ch ... and there­fore the Word should be scanncld with devont prayel' to the Lord for enligh tenment.

5466. The holiness thal is sometimes pel'ceived in a man when he is reading the Word, has many such arcanll. in it.

5492. When the Word goes to the Inmost Heaven, each and all things of the WOl'd pass into affections which are of love and charity, ..

5502. For in the Word evel'ything is holy, and the holiness is from the heavenly marriage of good and tl'llth. This is why Heaven is in the Word, a\al con­sequently the Lord ... inSOfiluch that He is the Word.

5620J2. John the Baptist represented the Lord as to the Word, which is the Divine truth on earth.

5702. Spirits from the Christian world, on being compeUed to hear the interiors of the Word, were seized with so great a nausea that they felt as if going to vomit . .. The reason (the Christian world is such) is that they have no affection of truth for the sake of truth ... Theil' thinking and speaking anything from the Word ... is from habit acquired froDJ early child­hood ...

5719. They who despise and ridicule the Word in the letter ... and are in no love towal'lls the neigh­bour ... rel.lte to the vitiated things in the blood.

5922'. For the Word is Divine truth for the use of the Church.

__6. The Word, as to the external sense, is in a cloud, for the reason that human minds are in dark­ness; and therefore if the Word \Vere not in a cloud, it would be understood by scarcely anyone, an.l the holy things of the internai sense would also be profaned by the wicked. Sig.

5952°. The Lord does not openly teach anyone trnths, but ... inspires, unknown to the man, the apperception and derivative choice that this is true becanse the Word says so .. ,

6023. Scicntifics are rnled by truths, when truth is acknowledged because the Lord has said 50 in the Word.

60472. See ENLIGHTEN; here. 7012. 7503°. 87802. 9300'. 93822. 9405. 10215. 102902. ct seq.

6221°. In its descent(from the LOI'dthrough Heaven) the Word has clothed itself with forms adapted to the apprehension in the triplicate Heaven, and at last with a forll1 adapted to the apprehension of man ...

62222• The Intellectual of the Church, is to perceive from the Ward what is the truth of faith and the good of charity.

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[A. 6222]3. For the Intellectual of the Church is that when a man reads the Word, and carefully compares one passage with another, he perceives therefrom wbat is to be believed, and what is to be done. (Oontinued under ENLIGHTEN.)

6280. The Divine Human before the Lord's advent ... was J ehovah Himself infiowing. through Heaven when He was speaking the Word ...

63333• The Word is giveu that it may unite Heaven and earth ... and therefore has been so written that it is spiritually apprehended by thc Angels when it is naturally apprehended by man; and in this way what is holy inllows through the Angels, and through this thc union is effected. Such is the Word in bath the historicals and propheticals ...

--<. The historicals have been given in arder that through thcm infants and children may be initiated into the reading of the Word ...

63433. That thc Ward is holy, and, in its interiors, must holy, is very eviùent from the fact that there is a heavenly marriage in every single particular of the Word, namely, a marriage of good and truth, thus Heaven; and that, in the inmost sense, there is in evcry single particular the marriage of the Lord's Divine Human with His Kingdoiu and Church; nay, in the supreme sense, the union, in the Lord, of the Divine itself and the Divine Human. These most holy things are in every single particular of the Word; a plain indication that the Word has descended from the Divine. Ex. 70223.

6620. From these things it may be known what infini te things there are in every Thing of the Word­for it has descended from the Lord through Heaven­although it appears very simple to those whose ideas are closed. Ex.

6621. The thought of those who ",hen they rcad the Word had studied only the art of criticism .. , have been represented as closed lines. , ,and a de­rivati\'e texture. " D.1951. 2041.

6714. Moses represents the Lord as ta the Divine law, which is the Word,

6752'. That 'the law,' in the widest sense, is the whole Word. Ill.

__9, For converse with the Lord is through the Word. Sig.

6757°. For the Word has been written not for man only, but also for Spirits and Angels.

6774. Study there in the Word. Sig, and Ex.

6776. Instruction in truths from the Word. Sig.

6777. The doctrine. of charity euriched from the Word. Sig,

67893. Unless the internaI of the Word inl10ws with those who read the Ward and remain in the literaI sense, there is not effected the conjunction of truth from the Ward with good; and the internaI of the Word inl1ows, and is conjoined with good, when the man regards the Word as holy; and he does this when he is in good.

6822°. Everyone must first acquire truth from the doctrine of the Ohm'ch, and afterwards from the Word of the Lord ..•

6880. The Divine itself cannat commuuicate itself ta anyone except through the Divine Human, nor the Divine Human, .except . through the Divine truth, which is the Holy Spirit: this is meant by 'all things were made through the Word' (John i.3).

__0. For whatever proceeds from the Lord is the veriest reality in the univel:se: .such is the Divine truth, which is called 'the Word through which ail things were madc.' 70043. 88613.

6947. The Word is the Divine truth proceeding from the Lord's Divine Human.

6971. That if they do not ohey what is announced from the Word, instead of beiug a spiritual and rational man, they will become non-spiritual and non-rational. Sig. and Ex.

6997e. Thus the Word ... in its interior bosom, has genuine tmths stored in it, aud, in its inmost bosom, Divine truth itsclf, which proceeds immediately from the Lord, thus also the Divine good, that is, the Lord Himself.

7004. For the Word which is uttered by a Spirit or Angel, proceeds l'l'am the Lord's Divine Human. , '

7°553, Ho\\' the prophets wrote the Word. See PROPHET, here.

7206. 'The Word' = the Divine truth proceeding from the Divine good of the Lord's Divine Human.

7262. In itself the Ward is nothing but the doctrine of love ta the Lord, and of charity towards the neigh. bom. III,

7573". 'The voice of Jehovah'=truth Divine and its power, thus the Word ...

764310. John the Baptist represented the Word. Ex.

7933. Accordin/!; ta the promise in the Word. Sig. and Ex.

8°78'. The insinuation of faith by an intel'llal way is effected lIy the reading 01" the Word, and by en· lightenment by the Lord then, which is given accord· ing ta the quality of the affection, that is, according ta the end ta know truth.

8456. No truth ... of the Word becomes truth witl! a man until it has received life from the Divine, and it receives Iil"e through the insinuation of the truth which proceeds from the Lord that is called the truth of peace. Ex.

8535, 'The testimony,' in the universal sense, = the Word ...

8615°. The Word has been sa wl'itten that e\'erything in it ... corresponds ta things in· Heaven; and from this the Word has Divine force, and conjoins Heaven with earth ; for when the Word· is read on earth, the Ange-Is in Heaven are moved ta the holiness that is in the internaI sense. This is effecteà through the COI'·

respondences of aIl the particulars iu it.

8652°. Because the Word is in the Ohmch, and, through the Word, the presence of the Lord. 8768.

8686. The trnth throngh which man is led (when being regenerated) is the Word; for this is truth Divine,

86942. Revelation means enlightenment when the

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Word is being read, and the perception then; for those in good, and who long for truth, are so taught from the Word; whereas those not in good cannot be tanght from the Word, but. only confirmed in such things as they have been instructed in from infancy, whether they are true or false. (Continued nnder REVELATION. )

87803. When sneh read the Word, they are quite blilld to the truth th80t dues not make a one with their doctrine. Examp.

87832. The learned ... believe that they would re­ceive the Word more favourably if heavenly things were set forth nakedly, and if they had not been writ­ten in sueh a simple style; but they are very mueh mistakeu, for they would then have rejeeted it more than the simple ... for bnman learning induces this darkness with those who trust in their own intelli­gence. Ill.

88643• Rence it is that the Lord is called 'the Word.'

8902°. In this does the Word differ l'rom, distance, and snrpass ail other writing.

8904. That the Word is not to be applied to con/hm falsities and evils. Sig. and Ex.

'8920~. (The descent of the Word through the Heavens. See DIVIN), l'RUTH here.)

8931. That ail things of the Word are through influx from the Divine through Heaven. Sig. and Ex. --. What Jehovah speaks is truth Divine, thus

the Word which is in the Church. __3. For the Lord now began (at Sinai) to reveal

the Word, which was to serve mankind for doctrine and life; first, through Moses, and afterwards through the prophets ..•

8939". Whoever wishes to be happy to cternity .•. let him know and believe that thc Word is the only doctrine which teaches how man ought to livc ...

89412. The trnths from whieh the Lord is to be worshipped, are to be taken from no other source than the Word, because in every single tbing therein there is life from the Divine. Ex. 8943,Ex.

8962. These combats are effected through the truths of faith that are l'rom the Word; (otherwise) the man does not overcome, because the Lord is in no others. 8964.

8971. It is known to everyone' within the Church that the Word is ... most holy. This is (actnally) perceivecl by those who arc in the truths of faith and a life according to them, for, while reading the Word, theyare continually kept in the idea of what is holy ; whereas (others) do not ... pe,ceive anything of what is holy in the Word ... and those who at heart deny the holiness of the Word, say also ... that writings of men are more elegant ... When told (there) that the Word is holy and Divine as to every jot ... and when shown to the life that ail things in the Word contain a spiritual sense ... they acknowlcdged it, but said that as thcy had not known this they are blameless. But it was found that they had lived at their pleasure, without conscience, and had therefore at heart denied the Divine ... and ail things of faith,

and that this was the reason they had not rccognized the holuless of the Word; and it was testified, further, that ail who have been in the truths of faith, and in a life aceording to them, have held the Word to be holy, and have perceived it to be so when reading it; and in this way they were shown that the cause had not been in the Word, but in thclllselves; for those who are in a life of good have their interiOl'S openee! into Reaven, ",hence the Ruly of the Word inflows l'rom the Angels ; whcreas those in a life of evil have thcir interiors closed towards Heaven, and opened iuto Hell, whence inflows the contrary. Examp.

9033. This (apparent truth) is not to be denied, for to do SO' would dcstroy faith in the Word; and if this is destroyed no one can live spiritually, because man has spiritual life through faith l'rom the Word. 9036. See also 9039.

9049". The reason worldly men were not to under­stand, \Vas to prevent them from profaning the in­teriors of theWord ... for the most frightful Hell of ail is that of the profaners of the Word.

9094. For the Angels see the arcana of thc Word in light l'rom the Lord, in which innllmerable things are presented to the view which do not l'ail into the words of speech, and not even into the ideas of thought, with men, so long ..s they are in the body.

91273. Let thorn remain in their belief, provided they bclieve that there is holiness in the Word ...

914410. The quality of the Divine Word in the Jew­ish Chnrch. Rep.

__Il. 'Judah'=the Lord as to the Word, and as to doctrine from the Word.

9152°. "\Then a man of the Chllrch who is in the good of faith, is rcading th,e Word, the Angels adjoin themselves to him, and are delighted with the man, because with the wisdom which then inf!ows to them through the Word from the Lord. Renee is the con­junction of Reavcn with man, which would not exist at ail without the Word; for the Word is such that, in its Original Language, theie is not a jot that does not affect the Angels, and conjoin thern with man. This ... has been shown me from Heaven.

9212°. There would bc no conjunction \Vith Heayen withont the Word, that is, without Divine truth revealed. (Which in our Earth is the Word. 92163. 92 767.)

9222. Truth Divine is the Word; and the doctrine of the Church is the derivative truth.

__2. They who blaspheme or deny the Word, can receive nothing of the truth and good of faith ; for the Word teaches the existence of the Lord, of Heaven and Hell, etc., which, without the Word \Vould be qllite unkno\Vn; and therefore they who deny the Word, cannot receive anything that the Word teaches ; for, when they read or hear it, what is negative occurs, which either extinguishes the truth, or turns it into falsity; and therefore the first of ail things for the man of the Church to do is to bclieve the Word, and this is indeed the primary thing with him who is in the truth of faith anù good of charity; whercas with those who are in the cvils of the loves of self and of

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the world, the primary thing is 1/ot to believe the Word, for they reject it the moment they think about it, anù also blaspheme it. If a man saw the magni. tude and nature of the blasphemies (of such) against the Word, he would be horrified: the man him­self is not aware of them while in the world, becanse they lie hidden behind the ideas of his a.ctive thought ... But they are revealcd in the other life. Further ex.

[A.] 9256<. The heart and lungs (of the Chnrch) are where the Word is; and the l'est of the members and viscera are where the Word is not.

9349z. There is not a.n iota, 01' point of a. letter, or little hom, in the letter of the Word that does not contain in itself the holy Divine; accordillg to the Lord's words in lIIatt.v.18; and Lnke xvi.17 ... and therefore, IIndcr the Divine Pl'Ovidence, it has been effected, that the Word, especially the Word of the Otd Testament, has been prcserved as to every jot and point from the time \l'hcn it was wl·itten. It lIas been shown me from Hea.ven, that in the Word not only every word, but also every syllable, and, increùible to say, every little horn of a sylla.ble, in the Original Langnage, involves \l'hat is holy, \l'hich is maùe perceptible to the Angels of the Inmost Heaven. Further ex.

9351. The principal rea.son (why the Lord assnmed the Hmnan 011 our Earth) \Vas for the sake of the Word, in order that it might be written in our Earth, and then be pnblished throllgh the whole Earth; and, once pllblished, be preserved for ail posterity; and that in this way it -might be made manifest, even to ail in the other life, that God has become Ma.n. (Ali these statements fully ex. 9352-9356.) Fut·ther ex. 9358­936 1.

9370. lt treats (in Ex.xxiv.) of the Word given by the Lord through Heaven, its quality, that it is Divine in both the interna.I and external senses; and that through it there is conjunction of the Lord with man. 9372. 9378. 9401. 9403. 9419.

93722. There are many in the Word who represent the Lord as to truth Divine, that is, as to the Word; but the chief among them are Moses, Elijah, Elisha, and John the Baptist. Ill.

__3. The Word is compared to 'a reed shaken \Vith the \l'ind' \Vhen it is explained at pleasure. Ex.

93822. They "'ho are thus ilIuminateù, understand the Word as to its interion., and therefore they make for themselves doctrine from the Word, to whieh they apply the sense of the letter ... (Continued under ENLIGHTEN.)

9383z. That ail things in the Word are of life. Sig. and Ex.

9405· The eoming and presence of the Lord in the Word. Sig. and Ex.

94062• The Divine truth that makes Hea.ven and the Chut'ch is the Word. 9407,Ex.

940711• Ali things of the Word a.re translucent from

the Lord. Ex.

9410°. See SWEnEXBOllG, here.

9411. 'Vhen those who are in enlightenment are reading the Word, they see the Lord ... This takes place solely in the Word, and not in any other writing.

9414. See MOSES, here. 9419. 9421. 9435. et seq.

9416. 'The two tables'=the book of the la\l', that is, the Word, in the whole complex. Ex.

9422. The top of the monntain, ,,,here Jehovah was = the highest or inmost of the law or Word; the l'est of the mountain=the internai of the law or Word, such as is in Heaven; and the parts beneath the mountain, whl're the elùers and people were, =the external of t.he law or Word, which is its cxternal sense.

9424. Truths from the Word from which there is doctrine, support the Word. Rep. --'. Ail the doctrine of the Church must be from

the Word .. , but the doctrine must be collected from the Word. (Continued under ENLIGHTEN.) H.311(g). Refs.

9430. The u!timate of the Word relatively obscure. Sig. and Ex.

__0. 'l'herefore let ail beware of injuring the Word in any way; for they who do so, injure the Divine itself.

9457°. At this day the only medium of conjunction (with Heaven) is the Word.

9468'. The Word is the Divine truth that proceeds from the Lord's Divine good ...

9779. The Church through the Word from the Lord. Sig.

9780. The Word is the doctrine of good. Ex.

9780z. 'l'herefore, for the Word to be understood, it must be known what good is; and no one knows \l'llat good is unless he lives in I)ood according to the Word. Ex.

9817. The influx of the Lord through the Word into ail who are in the good of love. Sig. and Ex. --. For the Lord inflows \Vith the man of the

Church chiefly through the Word. Ex.

l0028z• Afterwards interior trnths are 1eal'll t, such 1 as are collected from the Word by those who are in enlilYhtenment· for these co11oot its interior sense from vari~ns passag~s where the sense of the letter is explained; and, from these, truths still more interior are afterwards drawn forth by those who are en· lightened ...

100339• For the Word that is from Him is the Divine filling the universal Heaven ...

101°52• That there must be doctrine frolTl the Word in ordcr for the Word to be understood. Refs. H·311(g).

10126. Hence the Word of the Lord may he called as it ',vei'e Heaven in ultimates.

10131•. The Church makes a one with Heaven; the Word is what conjoins them; the Lord is in the Word, and the Lord is the Word.

10251°. It is the Word that mnst be the source of ail the truths of the Church; for the Word is the

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Divine truth itself seut down l'rom Heaven by the Lord.

10265. Whatever is said in the Ward must be under­stood relatively to that of which it is said ... In the Inmost Heaven, all things of the Word are applied to the Lord's Divine Human ...

102768. They who lay stress on the letter of the Word alone, and have no doctrine ... may be drawu into any heresies. Henee the Word is called by such the Book of heresies. 104002.

__e. Theret'ore unless the Lord had eome into the world, and openecl the interiors of the Word, the communicatiou with the Heaveus tlnough the Word wonld have beeu broken, ami the human race on this Earth would have perished; for man can think nothillg of truth, and do nothing of good, except l'rom Heaven ... and the Word is what opens Heavcn.

102902. The Lord speaks with man ... solely through the Word. (See ENL1GHTEN, hel·e.)

1030ge. From ,,'hatever mouth the Word comes, it is reeeived by man according to the qnality of his good.

1°320. "\Vhat the Divine has revealed, is, with us, the Word.

1°325. Thc books of the Word are all those which have the intel'11al sense; and those which have it not, are not the Word.. The books of the Word. Ennm. W.H.16.� N.266.

10355. Information by the Ward. Sig. and l'ully .Ex. __o. In the Christian Chnrch, information about .. the things of eterual liI'e, is effected solcly by the

Word ... __6. At this day, revelation is given solely through

the Word ...

103673. In order to be rc.born, man, if he be of the Church, must tirst learn truths t'rom the Word, 01'

l'rom doctrine l'rom the Ward ...

10375. 'He gave ... the two tables'=the conjunco tion of the Lord through the Word with man. Ex.

10400e. The man whose internaI has been opened is in the internaI sense of the Word, although he is l1nawure of it; and l'rom this he has enlightenment when he is reading the Word, bnt according to the light he is able to have by means of the Knowledges he possesses. 105512.

10432. That the Ward should be wrieten elsewhere, which is good and excellent. Sig. and Ex.

__2. The sons of Israel were received because the Word could be written aUlong thelll ...

104412. The Word must have Ill! ultim1Jje in whieh its interiOl's may cease ...

10450. The Word let down l'rom Heaven. Sig. and Ex.

10451. 'The two tables'=the Word of the Lord, in special and in general. Ex.

104522. The eonjunction of the Lord with the hllman race, 01" of Heaven with the world, by the Word. Fullyex. --~. Heaven is in wisdom l'rom the Word, when

it is being read by man ..• --. This is why such a Word has been given; (and)

if this medium of conjunetion were not in the world, cOlljunction with Heaven wonld pel'ish, and, with this conjunetion, every good of the will and truth of the llnrlerstanding with man; and, \Vith these, that human principle which consocia tes man with man; so that what is evil and l'aIse would take possession of ail things, and one community would perish al'ter another ... Such wouM be the state of man unless Heaven were conjoined with him, and Heaven would not be conjoined with him, nnless there were a Word, or unless Divine truth were communieated immediately through Angels, as in ancient times. When Heaven is mentioned, the Divine is also meant .

10547. 'The tellt of meeting' = the externa;1 of worship, of the Chmeh, and of the Word, in which are internal things. 10548. 1055°. 1055 I.

10548'. 1'0 interl'ogate the Lord, is to consult the Word ...

10554. [Ali] the Divine things in the Word are conjoinecl together. (As are the heavenly Societies, in the hnman forl11). Sig. and Ex.

10559~. The Ward could Ilot ha"e been wriUen any­where but in the land of Canaan ... and, where the Word is, there is the Chmch. Ex.

10578. 'Thou eanst not see My faces'=that the interiOi' Divine things of the ... Ward cannot appear to (snch). Ex. 10583. 10584.

10582~. They who read the Word without doctrine, are like those who walk in the dark ...

10600. Thc transpal'eney of the Divine internai of the Word ... throllgh the external. 'Ir.

10603. The external of the Ward ... snch as it '\"aS

fol' the sake of that nation. Sig. and Ex.

10614. The extcl'Ilal of the Word in which is the Divine. Sig. and Ex.

__2. (The tlll'ee senses of the Word. Ex.) W.22I. 10632. The primary things by which thel'e is COIl­

junction of the Lord with mankind through the Ward. Sig. and Ex.

__3. In the most ancient times there was not the Word, but immediate revelation ...

__4. There was a Ward in (the Ancient) Church, but one which was of service to that Chnreh only ... (and it was ufterwards) provided that the Word shonld be written . .. H.306.

I0633. The Word which is DivÎ11û in eaeh and ail things fol' the Church. Sig. and Ex. 10634, Ex.

10635. That all by whom the Word is reeeived recognize the Divine in it. Sig. and Ex.

__2. Fol' ail within the Church who are in the good of life recognize the Divine in the Word.

106382. These are they who unclerstand the Word, and are affected with the trllths t'rom it ...

10641. Seduction thence in the Word itself. Sig. and Ex.

106832. In the internaI of the Word ... are those who love to do truth for the sake of trnth, l'rom a spiritnal affection; in the external of the Word in whieh is an internaI are those who love truth fol' the sake of truth, but from a natural affection ...

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[A.] 10685. Temptations before the interna! of the ... Word is given. Sig. and Ex.

r0687. 'He wrote Oll the tables the words of the covenant'=the Ward, through which there is con­junction of Heaven with man. Ex. r0690.

107°3°. For the Ward does not shine of itself, but only before thc man who is in light from thc internaI; without this the Word is only the letter.

10707°. For the Church is where the Word is, and is from t.he Word ... and therefore sueh as is a man's nnderstanding of the Word, such is the Church in him, and such is his worship. r0761.

H 254. How the Lord spoke with the prophets, tJrough whom was the Word. (See PROI'HET, here.)

258. It is not according ta Divine arder ta be in­strueted by writings from Heaven, but by the Word, because through this alone is there communication and eonjunction of Heaven with the world, Hills of the Lord with man.

259. That thol'e are writings in the Heavells has been provided ... for the sake of the Word; for this, in its essence, is Divine t1'11th, from which is a11 heavenly wisdom for both men and Angels; for it \Vas dietated by the Lord, and that which is dictated by the Lord passes throllgh ail the Heavens in order, and is terminated with man; and hence it is accomrnodated to both the wisdom in \Vhich the Angels are, and to the intelligencc in which men are. It is frorn this that therc is a Word with the Ange!s also, and that they read it eqllally as do men on earth; their doctrinal things are from it, and their preaehings are made from it. The Word is the same; its natural sense, ho\Vever · .. is not in Heaven ; but the spiritual sense.

261°. They have the Word written in this way (des.) in the lower Heavells; and by heavenly forms in the IJ1Inost Heavell. (See Wmn:, here.)

303. On the conjunetion oC Heaven with man through the Word. Chapter. 307,Ill.

305. As mali has broken the conneetion with Heaven · .. a medium has been provided ... to be to Heaveu as a basis and foulldation, and also Cor the eonjunetion of Heaven with man: this medium is the Word.'

308. There is also a cOlljunction through the Word oC Heaven \Vith those out oC the Chlll'ch, where the Word is Hot ... But the Church where the Word is ... is as the heart and lungs ... and those out oC the Chnrch ... coustitute the members ... and the con­.iullction oC,Heaven with theIll through the Word may be eompared to light, which is propagated from the Illiddle to what is round about. Divine light is in the Ward, and the Lord with Heaven is present there, and from this presence the distant are in light: it would be dilferent if there were no Word.

309. Unless there had been such a Word on this Earth, its illhabitants would haye been separated Crom Heaven, and therefore would have been rational no longer; for the human Rational cames forth from the influx oC the light oC Heaven. Further ex. J. ra'.

310. Although the style of the Word appears simple · .. nothing can be compareù to it ... because Divine

wisdom lies hidden, not only in every meaning but also in each ward; and in Heavcn this wisdom shines Corth . .. it is the Iight of Heaven, because it is Divine truth.

--". Without such a Word, there would be no lil7ht of Hea'l'"cn with the men of our Earth, and thercfore tl~ere ,,"ould be no conjun~tion of Heaven \Vith them ...

393. They who have loved the Word (here) and have sougbt truths tberein with longing ... for the sake of the use of life, for bath themselves and others, in Heaven are in ecclesiàstical all'airs. They arc in enlightenment and the ligh t of wisdolll according ta their love and longing for use, and they come into thern from the Word in the Heavens, which is not natllral, as in the world, bnt spiritual. These perCorm the office of preachers ...

489'. They who have loved Divine truths and the Word from interior affection ... dwell in light, in lofty places, which appear like mountains, and are continllally in the light of Heavcn ... They live in a vernal tem perature; and fields, harvests, and vineyards are' in their view; everything in their houses is refulgent

1 as with preeious stones; and when they look through the windows, it is as it were through clear crystals. Ex.

5r6. Ali the instruction (in the spiritual places of instruction) is givcn from doctrine from the Word, and uot from the Word without doctrine.

526e. Abraham, David, the Apostles, etc. are not mentioned in the Word which is in Heaven, beeause that Word is the internai sense of the Word that is in the world.

Œ' 249· On the Holy Scripture, or Word. Gen.art. A·10318.

255. On the necessity and excellence of the Word. (Refs. to passages.) W.H.6.

256. That the Word is not understood except by the enligbtened. (ReCs. to passages,)

257. l'hat the Word is notunderstood exeept through doctrine from the Word. (ReCs. to passages.)

261. That the Word has ueen written by correspond­ences, and tlms by representati yeso (Refs. ta passages.)

263. l'hat the Lord is the Word. (RcCs. ta pas­sages.)

264. On thosc who arc against the Word. (Refs. to passages.)

t1f' 282• Without such a letter the Ward couId not ~ been Divine, or have served both Heaven and the world fOl' doctrine of life and faith, and for coujunction.

55:J• For the way to Heavcn is the acknowledgment of the Lord, and faith and love to Him, and the Word is what teaches the way, so that without the Lord, through the medium of the Word, there is no salvation.

57'. As they \Vanted ta know \Vhether there is this spiritual sense in these words (to Peter), the Word that is in Heaven was handed them, in which there is not the natural but the spiritual sense ... and when they read it, they saw that Peter is not mentioned there, but instead of him truth from good which is from the Lord. When they saw this they rejected it

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in a rage, and would have torn it with their teeth if it had not been instantaneonsly taken away. R.7683•

65. In itself, the Word is spiritual, and therefore tl'eats of spiritual things ... In the sense of the letter, these are set fOl' th by means of natural things, because natural things serve spiritual things as a basis, and without such a basis the Ward woultl not be a Divine work, because not complete; the Natural, which is the u!timate in Divine order, completes ...

l. That the universal Holy Scripture is about the Lord, and that the Lord is the Word. Gen.art. --~. The Lord is ealled the Word, becallse 'the

Word'=the Divine truth, or the Divine wisdom, and the Lonl is (these).

__o. As the Word is the Divine wisdom of the Divine love, it follows that it is Jehovah Himself, thus the Lord ...

2. The Word here meant iu special is the same as that manifested through Moses and the prophets, and through the Evangelists, as is very evident fr'om the fact that it is the Divine truth itself, from which the Angels have ail their wisdom, and men ail their spiritual intelligence; for it is this same Ward that is with men in the world that is also with the Angels in the Heavens; but in the world it is natural, and in the Heavens spiritual. And, as it is the Divine truth, it is also the Divine proceeding, and this is not only from the Lord, but is also the Lord Himself. As the Ward is the Lord Himself, each and ail things of it have been written about Him ·alone; from Isaiah to lIIalachi there is nothing that is not about the Lord, or, in the opposite sense, against Him. Ex... On this account, everyone, even at this day, who approaches the Lord alone, while he reads the Word, and prays to Him, is enlightened in it.

S. That the Lord fulfilled al! things of the law, means that He fulfilled ail things of the Word. Gen.art.

142• The Ward, to which violence had been done by the J ewish people. Sig.

152• The Church with the Jews was utterly de· vastated, and by this, that they had perverted ail things of the Word ... This was signified by ail things of the Lord's Passion. 16\Des. R.26.

19. That the Lord ... as to the Word, is called 'the Son of Man.' Gen.art.

23. The Lord aS the Word suffered, judges, comes into the world, redeems, saves, reforms, amI re­generates. Fully ex. sC1'iatim.

37. That the Lord is the very God from whom and about whom is the Word. Gen.art.

50". 'The blasphem)' agaillst the Son of Man'= somethillg against the Ward, by interpreting its meaning differently.

52. That Jehovah Himself". spoke the Ward through the pI·ophets. Ex.

53. lt is not said in the Prophets that they spoke the Ward from the Holy Spirit, but that they spoke it from Jehovah, from Jeho\'ah of Hosts, from the Lord Jehavih. Ill.

And, as the Lord is Jehovah, it follaws that ail the Word has been spoken by Him. R.36". T.158.

@ l. That the Holy Scripture, or Word, is the Divine truth i tself. Gen. art.

22• 'Jacob's weil' = the Word; and therofore the Lord sat at it.

3. The style of the Word is the Divine style itself, with which no other style ... can be compared; for it is like thick darkness to light. The style of the Word is such that it is holy iiI every meaning, and in every word, and in some places in even the very letters. Hence the Word conjoins man with the Lord, and opens Heaven.

__2. Two things proceed from the Lord - the Divine love and the Divine wisdom ... in its essence, the Ward is both of these. (Continued under READ.)

62• The three degrees in the Word. See DEGRrm, here. In its ultimate sense, the Word is natural; in its interior scuse, spiritual; and in its inmost, celestial; and it is Divine in every sense.

8. As, interiorly, the Word is spiritual and celestial, it has been written by pure correspondences ...

12. The successive states of the Chnrch as to the understanding of the Word. Sig. 13.

IS". The power of the Word against falsities of every kind with natural men. Tl'.

262• For thc Lord teaches everyone by the Word, and He teaches from those truths which the man has, and does not ponr in new ones immediately ...

__r,. The falsification of the Word by many at this day. (Rep. before Swedenborg.)

35". Ali wllo despise the Ward, and falsify the sense of its letter, appear bald there; but they who honour and love it, appear with becoming hair.

39. The spiritual sense and celestial sense are not the Word without the natura1 sense, which is the sense of the letter; for they are like spirit and life without a body ...

47. Where the Lord is meant, the Word also is meant, because the Lord is the Word.

48. The Ward in its glory was ICpresented by the Lord when He was transligured Ex. R. 24e.

51. That the Word is not understood without doc· trine. Gen.art. (See DOCTluNE at S·52. 54.)

58. 'l'he reason the Word shines and is translncent with (sncll) is that in every particular of the Word there is a spiritual and celestial sense, and these senses are in the light of Heaven; and therefore the Lord iullows into the natural sense throllgh these senSes and their ligllt into the natural sense and its light .. , and from this the man, li'om in terior perception, ae­knowledgcs the truth, and then SeeS it in his thought, and this whenever he is in the afiection of truth for the sake of truth; for percf\ption comes from afiection, and thought from perception, and thus is effected the acknowledgment which is called lai th.

59. With these the first thing is to acquire doctrine from the literaI sense of the Word; thus do they kindle for themsel\'es a lamp for their fm'ther progress; (and

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then) l'rom this they see the Word. (Continued under DOCTRINE.)

[S.] 61. 1 have spaken with many who believed that they wonld shine as the stars ... becanse they had, as they said, held the Word to be holy, had read it through froquently, had collected many things l'rom it by which they had confirmed the dogmas of their faith ... but it was found that some of them had studied thc Word l'rom the love of self, in arder that they might appear great in the world ... sorne l'l'am the love of the world, in arder to become rich; and when these were examined ta find what they knew from the Word, it was found that they knew from it nothing of genuine truth, but only snch as is called trnth falsified ... the reason of which was, that when self and the world are the ends, then, when they read the Word, their minds cleave ta themselves and the world, causing them to think constantl)' l'rom their proprium, which is in thick darkness in respect to al! things of Heaven ...

__3. It has been very different with those who have studied the Word l'rom the affection of knowing trnth because it is trnth, and becanse it is of service to the uses of life, not only their own, but also their neighbour's. These 1 have seen elevated into Heaven, and thus into the light in which is the Divine trnth there, and at the same time exalted into angelic wis­dom, and into its happiness, which is life eternal.

69. (Thns) in the Word alonc ... thcre is spirit and life. Ill.

70. Tilat the Word is in al! the Heavens, and is the source of angelic wisdom. Gen.art.

71. The Word in Heaven is written in a spiritnal style ... which consists of mere letters, each of which involves a meaning, and there are points over the letters which exalt the meaning. Ex.

__2. There are no names of persons and places in their Word ... but instead of names there are the Things which they signify. Examps... It is the same with the nnmbers ... (Thus) the Word in Heaven is a Word that corresponds to our Word, so that they are a one. (Further ex. in T. 241.)

72. Wonderflll to say, the Word in the Heavens has hcen 80 written that the simple nnderstand it simply, and the wise wisely; for there are many points and signs over the letters which exalt the meaning, and the simple pay no attention to them ... bnt the wise do, each according to his wisdom, even to the highest. --. A eopy of the Ward, written by Angels

inspired by the Lord, is stored in the sacrarium of each of the greater 80cieties, lest it should be altered in respect ta any point. Our Word is indeed like the Word in Heaven, in that the simple understand it simply, and the wise wisely, but this is elfected in a different way.

73. The Angels confess that they have ail their wisdom through the Word; for in proportion as they are in the understanding of the Word, in the same proportion they are in light; and the light of Heaven is Divine wisdom ... In the saerarium in which the copy of the Word is stored, there is a f1aming and

bright light, that surpasses every degree of the light outside ... The reason is that the Lord is in the Word.

742• The Word in the Celestial Kingdom is written differently from the Word in the Spiritnal Kingdom; for in the (former) Word the goods of love are ex­pressed, and the signs llIcan affections; whereas in the (latter) Word the trllths of wisdom are expressed, and the signs mea·n perceptions.

75. From this may he inferred the nature of the wisdom that lies hidden in the Word that is in the world ; for ail angclie wisdom, which is unutterable, lies hidden in it; for it is the containant of it, and al'ter death the man who becomes an Angel from the Lord throngh the Word comes iuto this wisdom.

76. That the Chnrch is l'rom the Word, and that it is snch as lS its understanding of the Word: Gen.art. T.244, et seq.

__0. It is not the Word that makcs the ChUl'ch, hut the understanding of it ...

77. The Word is the Word according to the nnder­standing of it with a man ... if it is not understood, the Word is indeed calle,l the Word, but is not the Word with that man. --. The Word is the Trnth aeeording to the

understanding of it; for the Word may not be the Truth, fol' it may be falsified. --. The Word is spirit and life according to the

IInderstanding of it; fol' the lctter withont the under­standing of it is dead.

7S. Moreover the Lord is present with a man, and is eonjoined with him, through the Word, hecause the Lord is the Word, and in it as it were speaks \Vith man; and also because the Lord is the Divine trllth i15elf, and the Word, too, is that. (Thus) the Lord is present with a man, and is at the same time eonjoiiJed with him, accore!ing to his nnderstane!ing of the Word ... beiug present with him through the reatling of the Word, and conjoincd with him through the understanding of truth l'rom the Word, and according thereto; ane!, in proportion as the Lord is conjoinee! with a man, in the same proportion is the Chnrch in ·the man.

79. In many passages in the Prophets ... il is taught that the Chnrch is nowhere else than where the Word is rightly understood ... Ill.

Sa. That in every particnlal' of the Word there is the marriage of the Lord and the Chnrch, and the clerivative lllarriage of good and truth. Gen.art.

96. It is hurtful to confirm the apparent truth of the Word to the destrnction of genuine truth, hec&nse everything of the sense of the letter communieates with Heaven ... (Continuee! une!er SENSE OF LETTEl\.)

96a. The Word compared to a garden that should he called a heavenly Paradise. Des.

975• The Divine external sphere of the Word is deseribed in Ezek.i.4. This is represented as a man, in verse 5, etc. etc.

__0, These snmmaries have been collated \Vith the ,Word in Heaven, and they conform to it.

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98. That the Lord came into the worlel ta fullil al! almost rejected by the Papists, of the Divine Pro­things of the Word, and thereby to hecome Divine vidence the Reformation took place, and therehy the truth or the Word in nltimates. Gen.art. 1'.z6z,IlI. Word was ag,dn received. Moreover, the Word is re­

__e. 'l'he Lord had indeed been the Word befOl'e, garelec! as holy by a noble nation among the Papists. but in primes: for it is sflic!, 'In the beginning was 1 11 1. As, withont the Word, there is no li:nowleelge the Word ... But when the Word was made flesh, , of the Lord, thus no Salvation, when the Ward had ~he Lord ~ecame the. Word in ulti~ates also; and i~ 1 been completely falsified and ac1nlterated among the lS l'rom thls that He IS called 'the ~ Irst and the Last. Jewish nation ... it pleased the Lord ta descend l'rom 99· Heaven ... and ta fnllil the Word, and there!>y ta

100. Ho\\' the Lord is the Word. Ex. T.z63c,Ex. rene\\' and restore it, and ta give light again ta the 101. That before this Word ... there \l'as a Word in habitants of the Earth. Ill.

that has been lost. Gen.art. 113. That man has communication with Heaven 102. That the Word which existec! among the thl'ough the Word (has been shawn by the fact) that

Ancients was wriUen by pure correspondenccs, but when 1 read the Word from the lirst chapter of Isaiah that it has been lost, has been told Ille by the Angels, ta the last of ~Ialachi, anc! thc Psalms of David, il. was who have also saill tbat that Ward is still preserverl gmnted me cle"rly 1.0 perceive that each vel'se comlllnni­among thelll, and is in nse among the Ancients with cateel with sorne Society of Heaven, anel thns that the whom it hac! existed in the \\'orld. Ennm... Those whole Word communicates with the unive.rsal Heaven. who knew the cOlTespondences of this Word were 114. That nnless there were a Word no one wonld calleel 'wise and intelligent,' and aftcrwurds 'diviners' know of God, Heaven, and Hell, the life arter c1eath, and 'magi.' But as thal. Word was ful! of snch cor· and stil!less of the Lord. Gen.art. respondences as signified heavenly and spiJ'itual things 115. But as those who main tain ... thatwithont the l'crootely, and therefore began ta be falsified by man)', Word man may know of the existence of God, and of of the Divine Providence il. vunished in course of time Heaven and Hell ... and as they thereby weaken the ... and another Word, written by correspondences authority a.nd holiness of the Word ... we may not not sa remote, was given throngh the prophets. .. deal with them from the Word, but l'rom rationallight, Yet in this Word many names of places in Canaan for they do not believc the Word, but themselves. and its neighbourhood have been retained, by which

117. The ancient Word (has been thc sonl'ce of al! like things are signifierl as in the ancient Word. For this reason Abram was commancled ta go into that the gentile religions). Ex. land .. , T.Z79. ~ 54· As the laws (of the decalogne) were the first­

103. That there was a Word among the Ancients, fnll~ of the Word ... they were (most) h01y. is evidcnt in Moses, I>y whom it is mentioneti, and 1 @. 832• When a man reads 'heat' and 'Iight' in quoted from. Ill. the Word, tbe Spirits and Angels who are with him,

__e, The lirst seven chapters of Geuesis exist in perceive charity and faitb. thal. ancient Word, sa that not a syllable is missing. z08e. There are Iike ~gl'~ in each and ail things of T.27ge. the Word.

104. That throu~h the Word there is light also for Œ942• Ta love theLord above al! things is nothing those who are ontslde the Chl1l'ch, and have not the else than not ta do eVII ta the Word, because the Lord Ward. Gen.art. is in the Word ... --. There can be no conjnnction with Heaven un- 983. Real freeclom and rationality are not possible

less there is somewhere on earth a Cburch where the with tbose in the Christian world who utterly deny the Word is, and therehy the Lord is known, becanse the Divine of the Lord, and the holiness of the Ward, auc! Lord is the Gad of Heaven and earth, and without who have retained this denial confirmed to the end of Him there is no salvation . .. De Verbo. 17· life; for tbis is meaut ù~' 'the sin against ·the Holy

105. How the presence and conjunction of the Lord Spirit.' and of Heaven exists in al! lands through the Word. l3le. The Lord enters man solely by an internaI way, Ex. which is throngh the Word, doctrine, and preachings

108. (An experience which showcd) that commnnica. from it. tian with the nniversal Heaven exists through the 135· The Lord aJone teaches man, but merliately Word. Des... lt is for this reason that, of the Divine through the Word, in enlightenment... No Spirit has Providence, therc is a nniversal intercourse or corn. ever claret!, and no Angel bas evel' been willing, ta tell merce of the kingdoms of Enrope, and pl'ineipally of me anything, and still Jess ta instrnct me, abont any­those where the Word is read, \Vith the nations outsitle thing in the Word, or any doctl'inal matter l'rom the the Church. Word ...

110. (Thus) the Word, which is in the Chnrch of 154· That il. is a law of the Diviue Providence that the Rcformetl, enlightens al! nations and peoples by man be led and tanght through the Word, doctrine, a spiritual communication; and also it is pl'Ovlded by and preacbings from it; and this in ail appearanee as the Lord that there is a'ways a Church on the Earth of himself. Chapter. l7 1,Geu.al't. where the Word is l'ead, and tbereby tbe Lord is 17z2. Thal. the Lord is the Word, because it is from known. And therefol'e when the Word had been Him, anù about Him. Ex.1

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[P. 172)3. That the Lord is the Word, because He is the Divine t1'11th of the Divine good. Ex.

__6. Thus to be taught from the Word is to be taught by the Lord Himself. Ex. --. AIl who are t.aught by the Lord in the Word,

are taught a feIV tl'lllhs in the world, but in many when they become Angels; for the interiors of the Word, whieh are Divine spiritual and Divine celestial things, are implanted at the same time; but these are not ol'ened in a man Ilntil aller death, in Heaven, where he is in angelic wisr1om.

__6. That this is donc mediately by preaehings, does not take away the immediatencss ; for the Word cannot bc taught otherwise than mediately throngh parents, teachers, l'l'cachers, books, and especially by the reading of it; hnt still the man is not taught by these, but by the Lonl through them... From this it may Le seen that man is led and taught by the Lord alone, and that he is tanght immediately by Him, when he is taught from the Word. This is an arcannm of arcana of angelie wisdom.

173. As man has light through the Word, and under­standing from this light, and as this is the case with hoth the evil and the good, it follows that l'rom light in its origin is light in its derivations, which are percep­tions and thoughts about any Things whatever. III.

2206• Ail things of the Word are pure eorrespondences

... and, 80S they are correspondencp.s, they are also appearances; that is, ail things of the Word are Divine goods of the Divine love, and Divine truths of the Divine wisdom ...

23°"' As the Word is the proceeding Divine, it is 'the Imllle of God,' whieh=God, with all the Divine

that is in Hilll, and that procceùs from Him. And, as ail the Di"ine things that are called the spiritual things of the Church, are from the Word, these also are 'the

' name 0f Go.d This shows what is meant by ... 'Hallowed he Thy name.' FlII-ther ill.

231. Th~ first kind of profanation is eommitted by th~se ~vho Jest from the Word, and about ~he Word .... TIlls IS cl~ne hy some l'rom a Lad habIt, by t~k1llg

provided there al'e peoples that have the Word; fol' those have light thel'efrom who are ontside the Chmch, and have not the Word; and, wonderfuJ to say, whel'o the Word is read holily, and the LOl'd is worshipped frolll the Word, there is the Lord with Heaven. The reaSOIl is that the LOl'd is the Word, and the Word is the Divine trnth, which makes Heaven ... This may take place with the Word with Enropeans in many palts of the habitaLle world, because their commerce ex tends ovel' the whole earth, and everywhere the Word is rrad by thcm, or there is teaching l'rom the Word. 260°.

__3. The reason the Christian l'eligion is divided, is that it is fl'om thc Word, and the Word has Leen writteu Ly pllrc corl'espondences, and these are in gl'eat part appearances of trnth ... And, aS the doctrine of the Chnrch must Le dl'awn l'rom the sense of the letter of the Word, thcre mllst needs arise in the Chureh llispntes, coutrovcrsies, and dissensions, especially in regard to the understanding of the Word; bllt not in regarel to the Word it.elf, or the Divinc of the Lord; for it is eve'rywhere aeknowledged that the Word is holy, and that the Divine Lelongs to the Lord, and these two are the essen tials of the Ghurch... 'l'hose who deny the holiness of the Word are not reganled as Cill'istians. 2592• __0.

--'. A notelVol·thy fact in regard to tl,e Word (which shows) that interiorly the Word is the Divine truth itself, and inmostl)' is the Lord, is thllt when any Spirit opens the Word, and rllbs his face or clothinl( against it, his face or clothing shines ... as brightly as the moon or a star ...

2575• When the love of self (among the Papists) exalted its dominioll to the Lord's th l'one ... it conId

not bnt profane ail things of the Word ... '1'0 prevent this, the Lord by His DÎ\'ine Pl'ovidence took eare that .. , they should forbid the reading of the Word ...

2582. The doctrine (of faith alonc) has Leen permitted ... in. order that tl~e Divine of the Lord and the holi­ness o( the Word nllght not be profanee!... The Word is not profaned, because they pay no attention to the passages where love, charity, doing, anel works, are mentioned... They are like those who have no kllOw­

nallles or (orms of speech from the Word and Jl1IXllJg [Iedere of Iruth l'rom the Word and who therefore eannot them .with remar~;~.that are hardly Lec~~ing, and sometlmes fouI. IIllS cannot Lut be conJollled wlth . ..Wsome contempt for the. ord; yet the Word IS Dlvme an,l holy III el'ery l'artICulaI' ... for every word stores . 'ts b h' D" Il .. 111 1 osom somot mg IVllJe, am las communICatIOn with Heaven by it. But this kind of profanation is lighter, or more gricvous, aecol'ding to the aeknowledg­ment of the holiness of the Word, and the ullbecoming eharacter of the talk into whieh it is introduced. D. 1304.

__6. The sixth kind of profanation is committed by those who acknowledge the Word, and yet deny the Divine of the Lord. Ex.

254". Religion has been transl'lanted into the wbole earth l'rom the ancient Word, and afterwards from the Israelitish one. Unless thcre had been a Word, no One would have known of God, Heaven an,l Hell, etc. Refs.

2562. It matters DOt whether a smaller 01' a greater part of the. world has received the Christian religion,

profaue it. ' 6 3 '1'1 J 1 b 1 d tt d

2 o'. le ews ulve een preservel, an sea cre over a "reat Jarl of the world for the sake 'of the Word . 't Ob .. Il L ltl 1 S ngma anguage ...

.,. 1 d . d cl k 1 ù 264~. Baby. on . oes ln ee ac -now e ge the Word,

but stll! desplses lt. Ex. . . . 3307. The whole Word lS 1I0thlng but the doctrine of I~, ~J 1, Pref. The Lord as to the Word is described in

Rev.i. 6. "Vho hath borne \\'itness of the word of God'

(Rev.i.6) = who l'rom the heart, and thus iu light, receive Diville trnth from the Word. KIO. R.35. KSI.

10. 'The sel'en churches' = ail in the Christian world IVhere the Word is, alld by it the Lord is known, and who aeeede to the Chureh.

II. 'Which are ill Asia' = to those who are in the light of Truth, from the Word.

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__2. As ta the ancient Ward, which was in Asia before the Israelitish Ward ... it is still preserveù there among the people who dwell in Great Tartary. 1 have spoken with Spirits and Angels who were from that country, who saiel that they possessed a Ward, and had possessed it from ancient timcs; that theyeondnet their Divine worship aceording to that Word; and that it consists of nothing but cOlTespondences. They said that in it is the Book of Jashcr, mentioncd in Josh.x. 12,13; 2Sam.i.17,18; and also that they have among them the books called 'The Wars of Jehovah,' and 'The Prophecies,' mentionerl in Num. xxi. '4, 15,27-30; and when 1 read in their presence the words takcn therefroll1 by Moscs, they searched, and fonmj them. ... Seek it in China, and perhaps you will find it there anlOng the Tartars. 1'.266. 2793•

26. '1'0 pierce .Jesus Christ'=to destroy His Divine trnth in the Word.

36. Wheu the Word was given-:factnm est-to the prophets, they were in the body, and hcare! J ehovah speaking.

42. Refore a lI1an tUl'11S himself ta the Lore!, and acknowlee!ges Hill! as the Gad of Heaven and earth, he cannot sec the Divine truth in the Word. Ex ... He cannot he enlightened in the Word; for the Lonl is the Word ... Those who do not approach the Lor,1 al Olle, look at Him ami His Word as behinll thell! ... This arcanum is hid,len in the ward s, 'John heare! a voiee behine! him, and he tnrned ta see the voiee ... '

43. '1 saw seven golden candJesticks' = the New Church, which will be in enlightenment l'rom the Lord, l'rom the Wordo

44. 'In the midst of the seven candlesticks one like the Son of Man' = the Lord as ta the Ward, from whom is this (New Church).

47. 'The hairs of the Son of lIIan'=the Divine good of love, and the Divine truth of wisdom, in the ulti­mates of the Word.

52. 'Out of His mouth a sharp tll'o.edged sword' = the dispersion of falsities by the Lonl through the Word and doctrine from it.

74. 'He that holdeth the se"en stars in His right hand'=the Lord f"om whom are 11.11 truths through the Word.

Il J. 'Thou hast not denied My faith' = that they aeknowledge the Word to be Divine truth.

134. ''1'0 eOlllmit whoredolll' = that the truths of the Word are falsified. Ex. 1]6.

179. ''l'hou hast kept My word' = that they live aeeordillg to the Lord's prceepts ill His Ward. E.209.

198. 'The Church of the Laodieealls':=those in the Chureh who sometimes belie,'e l'rom themselvcs, alld sometil1les from the Word, and thus profalle holy things.

199. 'The Amen, the faithful and true Witness' = the Lord as to the Word, which is the Divine trnth l'rom Him.

200. 'The heginning of the work-O]I'(/lcium....of God' =the Word. Ex. --. The Divine tmth itsel!' in the (ancient) Word,

and whieh is also in the Word of the present day, is meant by 'the Word that was in the bpginning with God, and that was God;' yet not the Word regarded as to the words and letters of the langnages, but as to its essence and lil'e, which is from t.he inlllost in the meanings of them. From this life the Word vivifies the affections of the wil! of the man who rends it holily ; and from the light of this life it enlighteus the thonghts of his understanding; on whieh aceonnt it is said, 'ill the Word \VaS life, and the lil'e was the light of III en. ' The Word does this, beeanse it is l'rom the Lord and about the Lord, and thns is tlle Lord. Ali thonght, speech, and writing derive their essence and life l'rom him who does them; the man is in them, with his qnality; but the Lord aJone is in the Ward. Bill. no one l'eels and pCl'ceives the Divine life in the Word hllt he who is in the spiritnal affection of trllth while read· ing it; fol' he is in eonjllnction \Vith the Lord through the Word. There is something inmostly afrecting the heart and spirit, that infiows illto the understunding with light, alld bears witness.

__2. 'The light,' in Gen.i.3, = the Divine truth, (this) is the Word. --. III fine, withont the Divine truth of the Word,

whieh in its essence is tlie Divine good of the Divine love, and the Divine truth of the Divine wisdom ... a IIlan eannot have life. Throllgh the Word there is COli· junction of the Lord with man, and of man with the Lord; and through this conjunetion there is life.

__e. \Vonderful to say, the Word has been so written that it eommnnicates with the nnil'ersal Heaven, and, severally, with eaeh Society there. --. That such is the Word in its essence, is evident

from these words of the Lord, 'The words that 1 speak unto you are spirit, and are life' (John vi.63).

202. 'Thou art lIeither eold nor hot'=that they who are such now deny, and no\\' acknowledge, that the Word is Divine and holy. 203.

217. '1 stand at the door, and knoek' = that the Lord is present with everyone, in the Word, a.nd is urgent to be received therein, aud teac!les how.

218. 'If anyone will hear c\ly voiee, and open' = him who believes in the Word and lives aecording to it. '1 will eon,e in to him, and sup with hil1l, and he with Me'=that the Lord eonjoills Hilllself with snch, and conjoins them with Himself.

224". The AlIgels said, Read the 'Nord, and believe in the Lord, and yon will sec the trnths which must be of your faith alld life ... But two of them said, We have read, but did not understand. The Angels rep1ied, Yon did not approach the Lord; and yon have also conlirmed yom'selves in falsities... Wc assure you that every man whose sou1 desires it, can see the truths of the Word in light. Ex.

225, l'l'cf. The subjeet treated of (in Re".i,'.) is the ... preparation of al! things for the Judgment, whieh wonld be from the Word, and according to it. 225, Sig.233. 256, Pref.

239. 'In the midst of the th l'one, and arollllll the tlnone, were four living creatures' = the Word of the Lord from primes to n1timates, and its gnanls. Ex.

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[R.] 241. The 'lion' ==the Divine truth of the Ward as ta power.

242. The 'calf' = the Divine truth of the Word as ta affection.

243. The' third living creature having a fuce like a man' == the Di"ine trutll of the Word as ta wisdom.

244. The 'flying eagle' == the Divine truth of the Word as ta Knowledges, and the derivative under­stanùing.

245. 'The four living creatnres had each by himself six wings about him'==the Word as ta its powers, anrl as ta its guards.

246. 'And they were full of eyes within' = the Divine wisdom in the Word, in the natmal sense from the spiritnal and the celestial senses.

247. 'They have no l'est, day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord Gad Almighty' == that the Word continually teaches the Lord, and that He alone is Gad, and tllerefore that He aJone is ta be worshipped.

249. 'The living creatures gave glory and han our and thanks ta Him that sat upon the throne'==that the Word aseribes al! good, truth, antl worship ta the Lord, who will judge.

256. 'A book written within and on the 1>ack' == the Word in every particular, and in every general. It also= the Word as to the interior and the exterior senses. --. That the Lord as ta the Divine Itself l'rom

eternity has been the Word, that is, the Divine trnth, is evident from ... 'in the beginning was the Word .. .' and that the Lord as to the Hnman also became the Word, from 'and the Word became t1esh.'

257. 'Sealed with seven seals' = altogether hidden from Angel and man... Such is the Word to ail whom the ... Lord does not open il.

273. 'He came and taok the book' == that the Lord as ta His Divine Human is the Word.

295. Examination by the Lord of ail ... as ta their understanding of the Word, and the derivative states of their life. Sig. and Ex.

298. The' white horse' = the understanding of trnth anll good l'rom the Ward with thelll.

305. The 'red horse' = the understanding of the Ward destroyed as ta good, and thenee as ta Iife, with them. E.364.

312. The 'black horse' =the unrlerstanding of the Word destroyed as ta truth, and thus as ta doctrine, with them.

316. 'Hurt not the ail and the wine' == that the holy goods and t.ruths that lie hidden interiorly iu the Word, should not be violated and profaned. 314.

320. The 'pale horse' = the nnderstanding of the Ward destroyed as to bath good and truth.

325. 'Slaill for the Word of Gad' (Rev. vi.9)== hated on aecount of their lire according to the truths of the Ward. 329. (=on aeeount of tl,e Di\'ine trulh. E·392.)

4112. A Christian has spiritual life solely l'rani the truths of the Word, because life is in them ; but when

the truths of the Word arc falsified ... spirituallife is extingnished in the man. Sig.

469. 'A little book open' == the Ward as to this doctrine-that the Lore! is the Gad of Heaven and earth, and that His Hnman is Divine.

484. The sonnd of a mill heard... A mill and grinding= to seek from the Ward what may serve for lloctrine... 1 sa\\' an old man ... holding the Word before him, and sceking l'rom it what might serve for the doctrine (of justification by faith alone). (Sweden­borg eOlltroverted him, and he threw the Word out of doors al'ter him.) Sec also __4.

541. l'hat ail the truths of t.he Word have beeIJ destroyed by those who are meant by 'the dragon.' Sig. and Ex.

__Co The Word thus becomes no longer a holy Book, but a profane book. Ex.

555. Victory by the Divine truth of the Word. Sig. and Ex.

__2. As the Lord is the Ward, the Divine truth in it is His blood, and the Divine good His body. I?or is not every man his own goad and trnth ? ... But the Lord is the Divine good ane! the Divine trut.h, whieh two are also the Ward.

566. A debate among sorne Spirits as ta whether anyone ean see any doctrinal thcologieal truth in the Word, except l'rom the Lord, (that is ta say) unless he approaehes the Lore! immetiiately. One side main­tained that the Lord mnst be approached direetly, beeause He is the Word, and the other that doctrinal trnth ean be seen when Gad the Father is approached immediately ... Something was then read ta these l'rom the Ward; and they prayed on their knees thal Gad the Father would enlighten them, and then ... they said that this and that was the trnth in that passage; bnt it was false; and this repeatedly even ta tediousness... On the other hand, those who ap­proaehed the Lord immediately, saw the tru ths. T.162.

__2. Sorne ... were told from Heaven that they did not knowa single doctrinal truth fJ'om the Word . .. They said, IVe will demonstrate that we have truths from the Word in great abundance. (Continned under T1WTH. )

--,;. A tahle seen in the middle of a place into whieh light t10ws immediately l'rom HeM'en. When any paper on which a trut.h from the WOHI is written is plaeed on the table, the paper shines like a star. (Continued under TRuTH.)

__O. A chambel' seen, whose walls shane as if golden, and which contained a table, on wllÎch lay the Word, set round with preeious stones in heavenly forms. The Angel guardian sairl, When the Word is opened, a light of unspeakable brightness beams from it; and there appears from the preeious stones a rainbow above and around the Ward. When any Angel l'rom the Third Heaven ... looks at the open Ward, there appears above aud al'oune! the Word a rainbow of various eolonrs on a l'cd gJ'ound. \\'hen an Angel fl'Om the Second Heaven ... a rainbow on a blue ground. When an Angel from the Ultimate Heaven ... a rainbow on a white gl'Ound. When any

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good Spirit looks, there appears a variegation of light as of marble... If anyone cornes who has falsified the Ward, the resplendenee is dissipated ; and if he dmws near, and fixes his eyes on the Ward, there is an appearance of blood around it... A certain persan, in tl,e confidence that he had not falsified the Ward ... touched the Ward; wh en suddenly fire and smoke issued l'rom it, and an explosion (threw him) into a corner, where he layas dead for hall' an hour.

__8. 'l'o falsify the Ward, is ta take truths l'rom it, and appl)' them ta confirm falsities. Examp.

57 I. 'A name of ulasphcmy' = a doctrine of the Church Ilot l'rom the Ward, unt fl'Om their own in­telligence.

576°. For the doctrine of the Chl1reh must he l'rom the Ward, and l'l'am no other sOl1ree.

595. 'l'hat they speak, teach, amI write l'rom the Ward, as if it were the Lord's Divine trl1th, and yet it is truth falsified. Sig. and Ex.

602. 'l'hat they were permitted ta confirm that doctrine (of faith alone) by the Ward, by II'hich it is as it were vivified. Sig. and Ex.

611 6• What it is ta meditate upon the Ward spirit ­ually and materially. Ex.

642. 'A white cloud, and upon the cloud one sitting like the Son of Man' = the Lord as ta the Ward. Ex.

653. 'Blood out of the winepress ... ' = violence done ta the Ward by dreadful falsifications of truth ...

666. "l'hou alone art holy' = that He is the Ward, the 'l'ru th, and Enlightenment. Ex.

668. 'l'hat the Word is now opened ...

669. 'l'he inmost of Heaven, where the Lord is in His holiness in the Ward. Sig. and Ex.

683. Influx into the understanding of the Ward with (those in faith alone). Sig. and Ex.

684°. That those in faith alone falsi(y all the truths of the Ward, is because the whole Ward treats of a Iife aceording ta the preeepts therein, and of the Lord as being ... the only GoÙ.

689. The Divine good of the Ward eonfirming this Divine tl'llth. Sig. and Ex.

719. The profanations and adulterations of the truths of the Ward (by the Papiats). Sig. and Ex.

723. 'A woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of names of blasphemy' = the Roman Catholie religiosity [basedJ upon the Ward profaned by them. Ex.

724. 'Having seven heads, and ten horns' = intelli ­gence l'rom the Word, at tirst holy, then no intelli· gence, and at last insanity ; and much power frOID the Word continually. (See also 725. 726. 727. 728.)

733. The Ward acknowledged aS holyamong them, aud yet really not acknowlcdged. Sig. and Ex.

735. Their amazement ... that the Ward, although rejeeted, still is. Sig. and Ex.

739. That the Ward ... is the Divine good itself, and the Divine truth, and that it is takeu away l'rom the laity lest the profanations and adultemtions made in it sbould appear. Sig. and Ex. E.1067.

__2. That the Ward is the Divine good aud Divine truth, is hecause there is in each and ail t.hings of it the rnarriage of the Lord and the Chnrch, and the derivativo lIlalTiage of good and t.rnth; and also be­cause there is in evol'ything of it a celestial sense and a spiritual sense; and in the celestial sense it is Divine good, and in the spiritual sense Divine truth; and these are in the Ward because the Lord i8 the Ward.

740. The Ward as ta power l'rom Divine trnth with those who arc in the kingdom of France ... Sig. anù Ex. 741. 746.

7412. (The French) aeknowledge that the Ward is divinely inspired ... but do not as yet draw Divine truths l'l'am it, except these general ones ... These things the)' confirm in themselves frolll the Ward; but before others, who do not Iisten ta the Ward, they do it from rationality ... 'l'he reason they do not go fnrthel', and rlraw the doctrinal things of faith l'rom the Ward, is of the Divine Providence, because they still adhere in externals ... ta the Roman Catholic religion ...

742. That dominion ovel' the Chnrch is effected solely throngh the Ward. Sig. and Ex. 749.

814. That those of the New Chnrch will be in· struetel! in genuine and pnre trnths through the Ward. Sig. and Ex.

819. That the aeknowledgment of the Lord as the God of Heaven and earth, together with a life aceord­ing ta His rommanùments, is, in the nniversal sense, the \l'hale of the Word and the derivative doctrine. Sig. and Ex.

8202. The unition (of the Human ta the Divine) was effected (also) by the fnlfilling of ail things of the Ward (in its three senses).

821. 'l'he Lord as ta the Ward, that it is the Divine good and trnth itself, l'rom bath of which He executes Judgment ... Sig. and Ex.

823. In Heaven, diadems appear npon the heads of those who hold the Ward to be haly. Ex.

825. 'His name is ealled The Ward of God' (Rev. xix.13)= ... the Ward in the letter, to which vio­lence has been otl'el'ed.

8302. The 'name wl'itten on His vesture' = the Ward as ta Divine truth; and the 'nallle written on His thigh' = the Ward as to Divine good. Both are in the Ward, the Divine truth of the Ward in its spiritnal sense ... and the Divine good of the Ward in its celestial sense ...

832. The appropriation of goods l'rom the Lord through the trnths of the Ward ... in every seuse, degree, and kind. Sig. and Ex.

__2. No man has any spil'ituaJ gooù fl'Om the Lord, except through trnths l'rom the Ward. Ex.

836. That all (sneh), being judged l'rom the Ward, perish. Sig. and Ex.

__2. For the Ward has proceeded l'rom the Lm'd's mouth.

839J3• For they were not allowed ta contradict the Word.

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[R.] 842~. In the Word that is in l-Ieaven, no nUIll- 1 ber OCClUS (herc), but the Thillg illstcad.

846. 'Beheaded for ... thc Word or Gocl' (Rev. xx·4) = rejccted ... U,'c(tIlse thcy live,1 aceording to the truths of the Word.

881. 'Preparcd as a Bride for her Husbanù' = the New Church conjoincd with the Lord through the Word. 895,Sig. --~. Fo,' the Word is the only Illedium of con­

junction, Or of m:.rriage, because the Word is from the Lord and about the Lord, and thus is the Lord, and thcrefore it is called 'a covenant' ... Moreover, the Word has been given for the sake of this end.

889· That to those who desire trnths l'rom any spiritual nse, the Lord will give aIl that are conducive to that use J'rom Himself throllgh thc Word. Sig. and Ex.

_ .. _c. '1'0 the rest there is IlOt given trnth from the Word; they read it, but every doctrinal trnth thel'ein they either do not see, or, if thcy see it, they tUI'll it into falsity, not so much in speech when repeating it l'rom the Word, as in the idea of their thought about it.

897. That in the New Church the Word will be understood, because translucent from its spiritual sense. Sig. and Ex. --. These wortls describe the ullllerstunding of

the Word with those in the doctrine of the New Jerusalem and an accordant life. 'Vhen read by them the Word shines. It shines l'rom the Llll'll by the l1lerlium of the spiritual sense, becausc the Lord is the Word ...

904· That to those in the good of lovc the Lord gives 10 know ... what His New Chureh is ... as to the Word ... Sig. and Ex.

909· The quality of the Word in the New Chureh­that ail its tmths and goods arc from it. Sig. and Ex.

926~. Under the swalllp there was a great hewn stone, beneath whieh lay the Word eOlllpletely hidden. ... There came an east wind ... that (iI'ied up the swamp, and laid bare the stone, undcr which lay the Word.•. l (then) saw the foundation stone, under whieh the Word had been deposited, set round with precions stones, from whieh as it ",ere lightning flashed ... (Then) instead of the temple, was seen the Lord only, standing upon the foundalion stone, whieh was the Word ...

932~. The Apocalypse also is the Word, like the prophetie Word of the Old Testament.

936. They who are in erils and falsitics ellnnot he healed by the Word, beeause they do uot read it; but if they have souud judgment, they can be healed by rational truths. Sig.

943· That the Lord, l'rom whom is the Word of both Covenants, has revealed ... the things that will be. Sig. and Ex.

944. That the Lord will come, not in persan, but in the Word, in whieh He will appear to ail who will be of His New Chmch. Sig.

945". When the prophets were speaking the Word, they were not in the spirit, but in the body, and heard from Jehovah Himself ... the words they wrote.

958. ''1'0 take away his part 'out of the Book of life' = that sueh cannot he wise iu, or "pl'ropl'iate to theul· selves, auything ont of the Word ... Fo'" the Lord is the Word, beeltuse it tl'cats of Him aloue ... ami 1here· l'ore they who do not approach the Lorù illlmediately, eannot see auy truth from the Word.

959. The Word, which was dictated by the Lord, passeù through the Heavens of His Cclestial Kingdom, and the Heavens of His Spiritual Kingdom, anù so carn,e to the man through whom it was writteu ; and thereforc, in its nrst origin, the Word is pmely Divine. When the Word passer! throllgh the Heavens of the Celestial Kingdom, it was the Divine Celestial; amI when it passed throllgh those of the Spiritual King­dom, it was the Divine Spiritual; and when it came to man, it uecame the Divine Naluml; and this is why the natural sense of the Word contaius within it the spiritual seuse, and this the celestia] sense, aud both the purely Divine sense, which is not open to auy man, nor evon to any Ange\. .

962. A golden lable seeu, on which was the Word, and two Angels stauding by it... It was at a Couneil con\'ened by the Lon\.

M 24. A sennOll in Heaven on the Holy Scripture, aile the conjnnctioll of the Lord with both worlrls throllgh it ... That holy Book has been dictated by Jehoval. the Lorr!, amI therefore He is ill it, insomueh that He is the wisdom therein ...

4410• (Ill orcier that Ihe three novitiate Spirits might underst,,"d this passage l'rom the Word) the angelic Spirits toId the III to iook up into Heaven, and an answer wonld be given ... because (saie! they) we have al! interpretations of the Word l'rom thcre; for the Word is in",ardly spiritual, and as the Angels are sl'iritwll, they will teach tl,e spiritual ulldel'stand· ing of it. (Two Angels then appea,"ccl over their heads, and explained the passage.)

77". (In the western ancient Heaven, 01' that of the Coppel' Age) we saw Il sanctua,'y, which contained within an ark the Word that was givell to the in habit· ant" of Asia before the Israelitish Word; the historical books of which are r-alled "l'he 'Vars of Jehovah,' alld the prophetical books 'The Enunciations.' At the present day this Word is lost in the kingdoms of Asia, and is preservee! only in Great Tartary... The sanetuary appeared ill the brightest light; alld the Angel "aid, That light is from that ancie.nt Asiatic Word.

78. The peoplc of the Iron Age are ,~ll l'rom the ancient inhabitants of Asia, alllong wholll was the anciellt Word, and worship from il..

___o. Those who nlerely read the WOl'd, and dmw nothing of doctrine l'rom it, appeal' at a distance likc bears; and those who connl'm falsities fl'om it, appellr 1ike leopards.

81. The Glorifications and celebrations of the Lord (in Heaven) are made from the Word, because in this way they arc made l'rom lhe Lord; for the Lorr! is the Word, that is, the Divine trnth itself therein. (The Glorifications quoted.)

liS" The Holy Seripture, which has proceeded

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imlllediate\y from the Lord, is, in gcneral and in particular, the maniage of good and truth.

128. That the Ward is the medium of conjunctiou of the Lonl with man, because it is from the Lord, and thus is the Lord. (Ex. fully IIllder READ.)

__0. As the Ward is the medium of conjnnction, it is called the Covenallt, Old and Ne\\'.

532~. This (conjunctiOIl of the mell of the Ohurch with the Lord, alld their consociatioll with the Ane/els) is elfeeted throllgh the Ward, in which each allCl ail things are corresponùences.

m 5~· 'The Ward' (John i.)= the Divine lmth, and t~efore the Divine wisdom. T.39. 50°. 590. 76". 224· fT) 6. The rcason the \l'hale Holy Scripture teaches tli'ii:(there is a Gael, is that, in its inmosts, it is Ilothillg bnt Gael, that is, the Divine which proceeds from Gad; fol' it was dictated by Gad ... Bnt in its derivatives . . . the Holy Scrîpture is accommodated ta the percep­tion of Angels and men; and in thesc it is in like ll1annl'l' Divine, but iu a different fcrm, :~Ild ill this form it is calicd the Divine Celestial, Spiritual, aUl! Natmul, which are nothillg but coverings of Gad; since Gad Himself, such as He is in the inmosts of the Ward caunot bc seeu by any createc! thing. Ill. But still th~ Di\'Îne, which is iumost ... shines forth, like light throllgh crystalline forms; but variously, acconling ta the state of lIdnc! that the man has farmed for himsel f . . . Ta cveryone who has formed the state of his mind from Gad, the Holy Stripturc is likc a mirrOl', in \l'hich he sees Goc! ; but each one in his own way. The truths t.hat he learns from the Ward, anc! that he imbnes by a lite accorc!ing t.o thcm, compose this minor. (Th us) the Holy Scriptnre is the fulness of Gad.

7· When (thosc who at heart eonfess three Gods) rtad the Ward, they C!O not perceive any light in it, or from it ... '1'0 sueh the Ward is as if it wer'e spotted with blots; anrl, us to the unit.y of Gael, completely covereù. Ill.

85· That Jehovah Gad deseended as the Divine truth, whieh is the Ward ... Gen.art. --. That by 'the Ward' (John i.) is meant the

Divine tmt.h, is beeause the Ward that is in the Church is the Diville truth itself; for it was dictated by Jehovah Himself, and that which is ,lictated by Jehovah is pme Divine t.ruth ... But as it passed throngh the Heavens down into thc \\'0 ri <1 , it became accommodated ta the Angels in Hea\'ell, and to men in the world ; and therefore there is ill the Ward a spiritual ;;cnse in which Divinc tl'llth is in light. an,! a natural sellse in which it is in shade . " 777. Ex.

__2. i\1oreover, the Lord came into the world in order to fulm ail thiugs of the Word, and therefore it is so frequently saicl th,tt this and that were done by Him 'that the Seripture might be fulfilled.' 262,I11.

116. The Ward, on which violencc had been intiictcd by the Je\\'ish people. Rep.

129. The Lord, being the Ward itself, as' the Prophet,' represented by His passion the Jewish Church-how it had profaned the Ward itself. '30,fully des.

1472• The minds of all who deny the holiness or the Ward ... think in the lowest region ...

165. The only way is ta go ta the Lord God the Savionr, and reac! the Ward unrIer His auspices; for He is the Gad of the Ward; and then the mail will be enlightened ...

--". Such a paralytie birth resulted from their Dot reading the Ward undel' the Lord's auspices; for every­one who does not read the Ward under His auspices, reads it ullder the auspices of his Own intelligence, which is Iike an ow\ ... Ill. by comparisons.

1773 . If the faith is false, it plays the harlot with

every lt'uth (in the Ward), and perverts and falsifies it ... But if truc, the whole Ward favonrs it; and the God of the Ward, who is the Lord God the Saviol1r, pours light upon it ...

__0. But, my friend, go to the Gad of the Ward, and sa ta the Ward, and thus enter through the Door ... anrI you will he enlightened ...

189. On the Hol)' Scripture, 01' Ward of the Lord . Chapter. (Chiefly repcatcd l'rom the work on the Holy Scriptl1re.)

Ig'o. Those only have life from the Ward, who reall it ... in oreler ta draw Divine trl1ths from it as frolll their foulltain, ami at the same time to apply them ta life. The contrary takes place with those who read it in arder ta get honours and gain.

'93. The reason the Ward is spiritual in its b08011l, is that it has de8cended from J ehovah the Lord, and has passetl th l'Ough the angelic Heavens ...

209. Wonderful phenomena that appear from the Ward in the Spiritual World. Gen.art. (Such as the shining of the Ward like a grcat sl.ar, or the 8un; rain­bows from it; when a papel' with a verse written on it is thrown into the ail', it shines in the form in which it is cut; when anyone rubs himself 01' his clothes with the open Ward, they shine; if one in falsities looks at the Ward, it appears black ta him ; if he touches the Ward there is an explosion; etc.)

__3. (This shows) that those in falsities of doctrine have no communication \Vith Hea\'en throngh the Ward Whereas with those who are in truths of doctrine their reading of the Ward penetrates into Heaven .

__e. The powcr of truth in the Ward can ovcrtnl'll mountains ... In short, the Lorcl's power l'rom the Ward is infinite.

223. On the power of the Ward in ultimates. Ex. --". In the Spiritual Worlcl, they who dcspise the

Ward become bald ; bnt they who hold it ta be great and holy appear with becoming hair.

224. On the ineffable powcr of the Ward. Ex. __3. Wh)' God came into the world as the WOI·d.

Ex. 2412. (Thns) the Word in the Heavens, as to the

literai sense, is similar and at the same time correspond­ent ta OUI' Word, so that they Me a one.

245. Sa the Ward does not cstablish and make the Church in special wit1l a man; but faith aeeording ta the truths, and life accorcling ta the goods, whieh he derives from it and applies ta himself. The Ward is like a mine ... (which is) opened accorùillg ta the uuderstanding of the Ward. Withont the understand·

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ing of the Ward ... it would no more make the Church with a man, than the mines in Asia woulel make a Emopean rich, unless he owned and worked them. (Fm·ther comparisons.)

[T.] 272e. (Th us) as the Lord is the Ward, sa also is Heaven the Ward. Shawn.

27ge. The Angèls and Spirits l'rom Great TA.rtary ... are sepA.rated l'rom others ... because they possess a different Ward.

290. That there is in finity in everything of the Ward. Ex.

--". Ail angelic wisdom is l'rom the Ward.

299. 'The blasphemy' of the Holy Spirit' = against the holiness of the Ward.

314., 'Thou shll.lt not commit adultery,' in thc spiritual sense, =to adultemte the goods of the Ward, and ta falsify if;" truths. Ill. (In the celestiaI sense, it = ta dellY the holiness of the Ward, and ta profane it. 315.)

32 3. 'Ta bear l'aIse witness,' in the celestial sense, = ta bJaspheme the Lord and the Ward, and thus ta bani,h Tl'llth it.elf l'rom the Church.

343· That nlll.n rcceil'es l'ai th by going ta the Lord, learning Tl'llths l'rom the Ward, and living according ta them. Gen.art. 347. 348.

344. The essence of the faith of the New Church is Truth l'rom tllÜ Ward.

347". The reason Truths are ta be taken l'rom the Word, is that ail the Truths that conduce ta salvation are there, and there is efficacy in them because they have been given by the Lord, and sa have been inscribe" on the universal allgelic Heaven; sa that when man learns Truths l'rom the Word, he cames into communion and consociation with the Angels, and this more than he knows.

349. Who ca.nnot collect Truths l'l'am the Ward if he will 1 And e\-ery Truth in the Ward, and l'l'am the Ward, shines ...

350. The Word of the Lord is an abyss of Truths, l'rom which is ail angelic wisdom ...

380". Fol' no satan can endure ta hear any tmth l'rom thc Word ... --. Ail becomc snch al'tel' death who in heart and

faith deny the Divinity of the Lord and thc holiness of the Word.

384. That none in Christelldom have any fll.ith who reject the Lord and the Word ... Ex. --. (Thus) they who reject the Word, rejcct the

Lord also ... and also reject the Church, because the Chl1l'ch is l'rom the Lord through the Word.

396e. What is theology ... unless the understanding is enlightened when the Ward is read ...

487". (The real sentiments of the predestinarians con­cel'lling the Ward.)

508. On the right of the pulpit (in that magnificent temple) lay the Ward open, encompassed with a sphere of light, (wilich) signifie,[ the internai sense re\'ealed.

--". As the dogmas of the Christian Churches ... 11lwe not heen composed l'rom the Word .. , of the

Divine Providence the Ward has been taken away from the Roman Catholic laity ; and among the Protestants it ... has heen closed by their declaration that the understanding is ta be kept under obedience ta their faith.

__ e. Enter henceforth into the mysteries of the Ward ... for its several Tl'Ilths are sa many mirrors of the Lord.

644e. Reader, open your ears, and read the Ward, and YOll will clearly perceive ...

759. Have .made a mOl'l1ing light from Own intel· ligence, and an evening light l'rom the Word.

776. That this second advent of the Lord is not in person, bnt in the Word, which is from Him, and is Himself. Gen.art.

777. That the Lord is the Word. Ex.

778. How the Lord is the Word. Ex.

779. (That Swedenborg was) filled with the Lord's Spirit, ta teach the doctrines of the New Church through the Word, from Him. Gen.art. --. l have not received anything that concerns

(these) doctrines from any Allgel, but from the Lord aJone, while 1 have rend the Word.

797'. In this state (Melancthon) consulted the Word, and then his cyes were opened ...

798. (Calvin) had cited the Word mercly ta win the assent of the common people.

__s. (Calvin said) Is not the Word the book of ail heresies ...

810. The main reason why these (English) preachers are depri veel of the priestly office, is that they do not fashion their sermons l'rom the Ward ... They do indeed take texts from the Word, hut mere]y as a prelnde.

838. The Scripture ... among Christians, which is called the Word.

845e. The Jews say that interiorly in the Word there is nothing but gold.

@ 936. The Divine Word itself is like a body with its soul ...

(~>J82. When the Ward of Gad Messiah is reall, it pelletrates everyone according to his state ...

383. This is the efficacy of the Ward. Ex.

895e. Wh en little children read the Holy Bible, the Angels understand the meaning of the Word more clearly than when aelults reA.d it.

1139. On those who are unwilling ta hear the interior things of the Ward.

1304. (On those who jest l'rom the Word. See HOLY SCRIPTuim, at .'1..961.)

1464. (The objection of those who reject my writings on the ground that they have the Word, overruled.)

1856. The pleasant heat of those who have heen delighted with the Word of the Lord. 1857. 1858.

1877. In itself, the Word of the Lord is dead, fol' it is merely the letter, hut it is vivi6ed by the LOl'd in bcing read, according to the capacity of understallding and

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perception given by the Lord to each reader·; thns it is 4330. (Delight of the gentiles there in the Word, on alive according to the Iife of the man who rcads it. account of its significative character.)

2380. On those who iuhere in the mere words of the 4343. If the thonght is held fixedly in any sub,jcct, Word of the Lonl . . . and the Word is read, everything in it will apply itself

2407. That the application of the interior things of to the universal of the thonght ... the Word of the Lord is universal . . . 4565. They said that there is nothing Divine in the

2435. When l attended less to what is in the Word, Word, and that they had opelled a copy of the Bible, as l was l'eading it, the Allgels perceived it more l'ully. and no matter where they read, the)' had fOlllld nothing Ex. bnt what is merely carthl)' , ..

2445. A vision concerning the interiors of the word' 466310. Why the Word was given in onr Earth. El(. __ll.

2462. On the more interior ami inmost thin"s of the --. When the Word is read in this Earth, it passes, Word. Ex. '" Iby the correspondences, into Heaven, and in this way

2472. On the Word of the Lord: that everything in the truths of faith can be commnnicated to the Angels it is " vessel, into which life is pomed by the Lord. Ex. of other Earths.

2539. On the life of the Word of the Lorcl.-Ill the 4664. In w!latever C!lurch a man may be hom, he supreme sense is the LOI'cl Himself; in the universal onght to inqnire l'rom the Word w!lether they are in the sense below the Lord, is the nniversal Heaven of Angels trut!l; but he must hold as a principle the life of charity and good Spirits; in a sense still lower, is the LOI.d's towards the neighbour, and love to Gad, otherwise there Church most universally throughont the whole world, is no enlightenment. and l'rom the first el'eation to the la,t times; in a sense 4671. 'Vhen the Word is read by mau in the Hehrew less universal, it treats of the Chureh that has been built text, the Third Heaven knO\vs ail the Divine Celestial up-inst1'1tcta cst-with ail its varions doctrines; in a that is inspired, and that each and ail things therein sense stillless universal, of the inlllost Chmch on earth; heat of the Lord. 5619', Ex. in a sense 8till lower, of eaeh man in partielllar; in the 4757. Revealed theology, 01' the Word, cOlTIpared with most particular sellse, of each article of f"ith; in the natural theology. ahstraet sense, of eelestial, spiritual, and rational tbings, 4759a. Neeessity of having fixed doctrinals frolll the of wisc!om, intelligence, and so on. As is the sub,ject, Word when reading it. 4762. so are the predieatcs.

4791. The Moravians perseeuted me \l'hen engaged in 2631°. The mode of speaking in the Word is natmal,

and not artifieia!. Ex. the reading and sturly of the Word. 4820. How the Word was illspired, shown by illY own

2721. (On the four principal styles in the Word of the Ohi Te~tanlCnt.) writing.

4824. For if a man lives evilly, and still believes in 2785. (The differenee between the Word anù ail other the holy Word, he works evil to Heaveu ; and therefore

writings.) the Epistles of Paul have becn permitted. 2885. That corporeal Spirits cannot understand the 4903. There were vel'y many who had no doctrine, but

interiOl'S of the Word. Ex. merelyaekuowledged the Ward, saying that it is suffi­2900'. So wheu 1 have read the Word of the Lord, a eient to read the Word . .. 5067. 5°70. 5083·

double thought has been plainl)' observed . . . SOIS, One who (by persuasive faith) believed the 3421. So preachers do not sec in the Word of the things in the Word pre-eminently. Des.

Lord the things that eOllfiiet [with their views] . 5090. Before the Lord, the Word is as one man, for 3442 • How " single expression of the Word, taken it is Divine truth, and therefore the sense of the lelter

alone, may indllee a wholly false doctrine. is as the soles of its feet ...

3605b. On the interiOl's of t.he Word-how they are 1 51.87. Ali the wisdolll of the Aug~l~ is g~ven b?, t~le to be set forth. Ex. 1 medmm of the Word, for there IS Dlvllie "'lsdom III lts

3741. On those who despise the Word and Di"ine 1 internaI and inmost senses, whieh is eomlllullicated to worship. the Angcls through the Word when it is being read

by meu, and whcn they are thinking l'rom it ... 4121. T1lat eaeh and ail things of the Word are 5193, Ex.

vessels. Ex. 5561. On the Word in Heaven.-They ha,'e the 413.5. When yet the Word is sueh that it emuraees Word there ... lu the Spiritual Heaven the writing

ail thmgs . . . is similar to that in the world, in Roman letters, but 4143. (The effect of pa)'ing attention to the mere entirely un intelligible to those in the natural world,

materia!s, 01' terms, of the Word. From experience.) beeause it is in an entirely differellt language, which 4184. That the Word of the Lord, when presented is universal. Ex... Some have the Word aceording

before the Angels, is sueh that everything is al ive. Ex. to its internai sense, and some according to its external 4185. sense, but more spiritual.

4191. The Word \Vith me was represented by my 5603, They have the Word (there) eom"plete" l'rom father in his life. time. beginning to end, so written that ever)'one can read

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it; the preaehers there preach about ,it, and the l'est 1 5710. The Wonl is the real foundation, hut is sa l'al' read it as in thc,world. those who live weil, and acknowledge the Ward as

[D,] 5604. But they have the Ward written in the, holy and Divine ... spiritual language ... Tlley have the Ward in a two- --, Hall' the foundation l'rom the Ward lLcconls fold wisdom; the spiritual have a seuse that is inter- with that l'rom the truths of natme. Examps. mediate betwecn the internaI and the external seuse ; __co In a ward, nothing cau be founded on scientifies, the interior spiritual have it eutirely according ta the unlcss it has been first founded on the Ward.

internaI sense; and the celestial, according ta the 5722, Er. Benz. ha.d the Ward, but it sen'ed him celestin! sense. There are no names in their Ward, merely for preaching , .. 5722a. nor numbers, Imt Things instead. They who desire 5809. The wiser of the gentiles (in Africa) have a ta be intel1igen t ancl wise, ean he instrneted l'rom the book whieh is ta them the Ward. Des. Ward about everything. Instead of the history of the creation, the new creation of man is treated of. 5933· No one can be coujoined with Heaven .. ,

except by sueh things as are of the Ward ... hOll'evcr 5605. They have the Ward of the Ancient Chm'ch . .. Olorally he lives... The reason is that a man becomes

The nature of this Ward is evident l'rom the iirst spiritual solely through the things of the Ward ...chapters of Genesis, whieh were taken l'rom it.

5947. On the influx of the Ward into Heaven ... 5606. There are l'am kinds of men there, just as _'_c. (Thus) there is n communication ta the whole

here. The first attend ta the uses in the Ward, seeillg Heaveu l'rom the Christian Heaven where the Ward is, indeed the other things, but paying no attention ta sa that the Ward is the source of wisdom and interior them ... Thus is it read by the celestia!. The seeand

, 1 joy ... are those who take out the 1 l(octrina thlllgs of t le Ward fl'Om it: thus do the spiritual apprehend it. 596 1. 'l'hase constitute the tail of the lh'agon who The third are those who are delighted merely with its merely read the Word, and place salvation in this, but holy external, without iutelligenee: these are thcy who are in no doctrine, saying thnt the Word in the letter are in the Ultimate Heaven. And the fourth are they is doctrine; but in this way they can del'end whatever who atteud solclY ta the !iteml seuse, and they who they please. l have spoken \Vith them ... and the)' attend solely ta the \Yards; as the crities, and those said that they take care that ail in their Society are who \lTite various th.ings ahout it; the former of these diligent in the reading of the Word; but l toM them are at t.he tlneshold al' Heaveu, and the latter are in that this does not save, but their liviug nccording ta the very extrellles. the Ward, aud that no one can (do this) unless he is

in the doctrine of truth l'rom the Ward; (Ex.) and that 5607. The Ano"els have theil' wisdolll l'l'am the Ward, tl e d'nc" /' tl Ward' t 1 d h tl L dle l' al" a le lS no leU!' y le 01' •••

but pay no attention whatever ta the thiugs in the unless they are in the lil'e of tmth (which i8 impossible) sense of the letter, nor ta the thiugs that are in the unless they are in doctrine l'rom the Ward. (Ex.) thought of the Illau wheu he is rcading il.; but ta the Th 'd th t tl 1 cl l' l tl' " bey saI a ley la armer lelr opllllon ecauseiuteriors of the Ward, fr.)m the mal1.

they knew that everything of the Ward has conjunctiou 56°9, Il' the men who are reading, or thinking, 01' with Heaven; but it was rep!ied that the conjunctiou

pl'eachiug, l'ranI the Word, are wise, the Augels are is with the man who rends it, and the conjunctiou is unawal'e of it . . . such ,\S he is l'rom the Word, as they rnight kno\l' l'l'am

5618. On tlnee maideus who reall the Word claily. the fact tilat the Ward [as it li~s] upon a table has no (Sec Rl,AV, here.) Theil' Ward \l'as acconling ta the eonjullction, thus ueither is there auy with the reaùer interior 'sense, which is intermerliate hetween tl,e otherwise thau as he is in the understanding of it, aud natural aud the spiritual sense. Tt \l'as historie aud in affection of life l'l'am it. prophetie; but instead al' the names al' persans, places, 5964. Some Societies in Heaven have the Ward and numhers, there were Things. written according ta the spiritual sense as ta nH\llY

5619°. The Jews read the Ward in the Original things, where, instead of the uames of persans, Lal1guage ... They have been tolerated sa long fol' kingdoms, and l'laces, there are words which only the the sake of the Ward, through which there might be wiser of thern uuderstand, for these words involve man)' some communication with Heaven. arcana of the subject signified by the nBme . " 5965,

562 [. From this it is el'idel1t that the Ward is Further ex. Divine ... not only in the \l'ords, but also in the 6030. Otbel's know how ta excite Societies by syllables, or lctters . . . sayings l'rom the Word.

5666. The maidens there have the written Ward, 6073. One who in his youth hnd read the Ward and Psalmodies, and they take them with thern ta the diligently, but afterwards rejected it because he did preachings. They aIsa read them; and if they clo not not understand it. Des. rend them, either sorne garment is taken away, or their 6077. See TARTAlty, here.

little garden vanishes. 6107. Moses seen... He has with hirn Ids live 5670. On enlightenment through the Ward, and on books, and also the ancient Ward. l asked him abont

the Intelleetnal of man as ta the Word. Ex. the book of Jasher; and he said that he had seen it, 5709. On the two foundations of truth-the Ward, and told me that that Ward still exists amollg the

and nature. ancieuts of his lime, and is read. Abo that he knows

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about the subsequent Word of tho present ùuy, but does not read it. (Continuoù under MOSES.)

€Mi~ 4561c. (Panl) rejeds tho interior thiu,((s of 1

tl~because they are contrary ta worldly glory, 1 and [self] merit.

1. 1'0 believe what another says is sorvile ; but ta bolie\'e what we omselves thiuk l'rom the Ward is

l'reedom. Sig. 200". If it is acceptcù as a doctriue ... that the

Lord is oue with the Father, and that His Hllman is 4697. On a certain Geutile who was much moved by 1 Dil'ine l'rom the Divine in Himself, light will be seen

the Word.

JeT 1 W d b cl t d 1 b• l I.,.enee t le or can e Il n' ers 00 on y y

on ~ 1"110 is enlightened . . . 62 TI L d 1 H' If 1 1 . tl W d

3 ,] le lor rehvea. s Im[se sa e y III le or, and t lere on y by t e mterna sense.

. 43· 'The Word' (John i.)= the DÏI·ine trnth that is III the Hcal'ens, and l'rom whlCh are ail thmgs there. (= the Lord as ta the Human, anel therefore Divine truth. 15 1'. 852•. I07I'.) (=Divine truth. 196. 726., 850", 9073,) (=the Lord as ta Divine truth. 29416,) (= the Divine truth proceeding frolll the Lord, th us the LOI'd as to His existen, I069".) (= the Divine good and Di l'ine truth. I0703,) (= the proceeding Divine, I093')

50. AlI about whom and through wholll the Word was written, were led ta plaeüs that had a significa­tian, , .

62, It is usual in the Ward ta mention fJrst the things that are ta happen las t, becanse these include the intermediate thinus.

o 71•. For the Word ta be Div,inc, ~nd ta be for bOYI

Heaven ~nd earth at tl~e s,.~e tllllC, It mnst necessanly he lIatUlat 111 the lettel. Ex.

112. Those within the Chu"ch who want ta under­stand the Ward, and ,la not as yet understanel it. " Sig, and Ex.

II7 2• Theil' anxiety when they reaù the Word, and

ùo not well understanel it. , . Sig. and Ex, I22,Sig.

1 in e\'erything of the Word ... (otherwise) nothing ,'will be seen inlight in the Ward. Ex . " . 1 233· There are two states of fUlth and the denvatlve 1 life ... one l'rom doetl'Îne, and the other l'rom the

Ward or l'rom preaching l'rom the Ward. Ex. __2. ,

2602. Sa that if the Word in the letter also were spiritual, it would have no basis, and would be like a house without a founùation.

Il TI W d l' J li' h D" t tl 275.,' le or a eloval =t e IVille ru 1

proceedlllg l'rom the Lorù, 2883, The reason thc heaveuly marriage is in every­

thing of the Word, is that the Di vine whieh proeeeds l'rom the Lord is Di vine truth united ta Divine goad . , .

351. It is said 'the Chmch where the Word is,' because the Lord's Chmeh is in the whole world, bnt, in special, where the Ward is anù the Lorel is kuown thereby, . , The presence of the Lord and thence of the Angels of Heaven with the mell of this Ruth is throngh the Word, bceause it has been written by mere corresponùences. , •

1 --". The liuht of Heaven .. , is frolll the Lord throngh the W;rd, fl'om this the light is propagated as l'rom the middle inta the circumferenccs on el'ery side, thus ta .. , the gentiles who are ontside our Chureh; but this propagation of light is ell'cctecl in Heaven by t.he Lord; and (thus) inf10ws into the minds of men ...

35514• The Lord is calleel 'the Ward,' beeause 'the Word'=thc Divine trnth proeeeding l'rom Him.

176', (In this way) mali can be in some natural 1 3562, That no one can understand the Word with­enlightenment whell he reads the Word. For the ont doctrine. Ex, Word in the letter is not undel'Stooel without en-, --, But he who reacls the Word l'rom doctrine sees lightenment, and enlightenment is cither n,\tural or 11.11 things that confirlIl , .. spiritual. Ex. --', That doctrine cannat he procured 1'1'0111 any

1772• Thereforc they who rcael thc Word solely for , other sonree thall the Word ... the reput~ of cl'lldition, (~r other snch ends) neve,' sec anel percelvc tl'llths, but falsttles. Ex.

__3, But they who read the Word l'rom the spiritual affection of truth . , , see trutlts thercin, anù rejoice at heart wheu the)' see them.

[go. :F'o)' when these read the Word, they do not see it l'rom the doctrine of the Church in whieh they werc barn, but as if they were sepamted l'rom it. '. Snch are enlightened .. ,and it is gl':lIJtet\ thcm ta formuJate doctrine, , , __2, Dut the)' who rearl the Word l'rom doctrine

t.hat is l'rom others, eauuot see truths l'rom tlJe light of their o\\"n spirit ... Sneh cannat be enlightened .. , and this is why they rcmain natmal , .. for ta become spiritual is to imhue one's spirit with truths l'rom the Word , , .

195'. Why man becomes spiritual through Know. ledges of the Word (applied ta life), ami not through any other Knowledges. Ex.

365, The Ward not unde~'stoo,~ (becanse therc is no goocl) whellcc comc dissenSions III the Chlll'eh. Sig, and Ex.

__2, Thcrerorc if good is not preseut with a man who is rcading the Ward, tl'llth also tloes Ilot appcar. --'. In the Ward are all the truths of, H,eaven

and the Church, and evell a11 the arcana 01 wlsdom possessed by the Angels of, Heaven, but ,no one sees thern exeept those who are III the good ot, love to the

1Lord, allClln the good of love to\\"ards thc nelghbour ... 3662, That the nnderstandingi of the Ward is de­

stl"Oyed \l'hen therc is 110 good with the man, that is, no love to the Lord anù chal'ity to\\"ards the neighbour. Ex.

369", The Word has been writteu l'l'am sueh things as were seen and heard in the uitimates of Heaven, thus l'rom mere correspondenees ...

3732, In itself the Word is Divine truth itself, but the nnderstanding of it is aecording ta the state of the

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man who reads it: a man who is not in good apper­ceives nothing of good therein, and a man who is Ilot in truths sees nothing of trnth. thcrein; so thltt the cause is Ilot in the Ward, hut in the reader.

[E.] 382. For the Ward appeal's to everyone accorùing ta his quality ...

3927. That the Ward is thc Lord, is beeause 'the Word' = the Divine trnth, and ail Divine tl'l1th proceeds from the Lord ...

4104. The Ward is writtcn in many places accorùing ta appearances in the Spiritual Warld that are un­known ta man, but known to Spirits anù Angels, from which it is evident tl.at the Ward is written fol' them also.

41123. Ta loak at the Word from without, and not from withiu ... is to sec it not from doctrine, but solely from the: letter, whence they wander in every direetion ... and are snre of nothing, whence come emlless adnlterations ... Sncll are lhey who study the Word for the sake of glory and hononr; and, as sneh, "'hen stnùying the Ward, regard themselves in every­thing, they are outside the Ward; whereas they who love truth and the derivative gooù are within lhe Ward; for they regard it from the Lord, and nat fram self. Tl'.

__24. The Ward is calleù 'a t1re,' and 'a hammer' (Jer.xxiii.29) because these=the good af love and the trnth of faith.

419'4. 'He senùeth out His Ward' (Ps.cxlvii.18)= the Divine gaad united ta Divine trnth.

4333. That 'Jndah' = the Ward also, is becanse the Lorù is the Word; and He ,\ssllIlled the Hnman in that tribe that He might he the Ward as ta the Hnnll\n also.

435'. In every partieular of the Ward there is an illmost or eelestial sense, an internaI or spiritual sense, and an external sense, which are for the tlnee Heavens respectivcly ...

438". 'Thy shoe iron and bmss'=that the ultimate of the Ward is natnral trutll and gooù.

449 10• The blessing of the tribes by ~[oses describes

the Ward.

4662. As the Ward has been given man for the sake of the eonjunctioll of the Lord with the Angels and with men, truth conjoineel with goad, anel goad with truth, are in it cverywhere; 1'01' there are ... two expressions, one of which relatcs to Divine tmth, anll the other to Divine gooc1 . . .

473. Rence the Ward, cven that spoken by Angels, is Divine.

50 413. (That) the Word is Divine truth itself united to Divine good, fol' there is everywhcre in it the marriage of good ami t\'llth. Rep.

5172• Ail in the love of self falsify the truths of the

Ward if they stndy it. Ex.

51826• That allhongh the Church perishes ... still the Ward will not perish. Sig.

5202. For there is a marriage af gooù and trnth in

good in the truths of the Ward on the part of him who perceives them, the truths are without (heir consort, and may be applied to anyevil eupidities and false principles whate\'er, and may thus become falsities of evil.

5353. That thase who falsify the truths of the Ward hy illterpretations to confirm evils of life, avcrt them· selves from Heaven, and convert themselvcs to Hel!, is because the conjunction of Heaven with man is thraugh the Ward. For Heaven is in the spiritual sense of the Ward, and man is in its natural sense ... This is wh)' thoso who apply the Ward to evils of life, and to false principles that are froll1 their Owu intelli· gence, caunot be conjoiued with Heaven ... But those who apply the Ward to ~nch falsities as do not disagree with the gaod of life have their falsities api'lied by the Lord to goorl .

5452. Fol' ho who eleuics the Ward to he Divine in the wholo sense of the letter, breaks the conuection with Heaven. (Continued under 8ENsE OF LWl'TJm.)

56916. That spiritual things are not to be investigated through the scientifies of the natural mau, nor the derivative reasonings, but throngh the Ward ... Sig.

__21. The praphet's 'book' = in special, that WOl'd which was in that book; but in geueral, the \Vhole Word .. _

5792. When the Diviue things of the Ward are con· joined \Vith (the loves of self and of the \Vorlel) ail things therein are adulterated and falsified; for the Divine things of the Ward can never be conjained \Vith anything but heavenly lo\'e ...

5853. Of the Divine merey ... media l,ave been giveu by which man can be removed l'rom his 1'1'0­

prium; thcse mcdia have been given in the Ward ...

593. '1 saw another strong Angel coming down l'rom Heaven' = the LOI'd as to the Ward; here, as to ils nltimate sense ... because oit is (rom this sense that the Lord is called 'strong' ...

__2. The Word, whieh is Divine truth, desceuds from the Lard, through the Heavens, into the world ; and therefore it is adapted to the wisc10m of the Angels who are in the three Heavens, and also to men who are in the natlll'al world. Hence it is lhat the Word, in its IÜ'st origiu of ail, is wholly Divinc, is afterwards celestial, then spiritual, aud fillally natural ... This is wh)' the Ward exists with the Angels of each Heaven, but with a ditl'erence acconling ta the degrees af their wisùom, intelligence, and kno\V· ledge; and although it differs in its sense in eaeh Heaven, still it is the same Ward. Ex.

5942. As the Ward, which is Divine tmth, \Vas rc­presented (at the transfiguration) ~loses and Elijah were seen ...

__3. Since the giving of the Ward, the Lorù manifests Himself solely throngh it; for the Ward, whieh is Divine truth, is the Lard Himsclf in Heavcn

and thc Church ; and from this it is evident that the manifestation here foretold (concerning the sccond ad· vent)=His manifestation in the Word; and (this) has been efl'ected by His having opened and rcvealed the

ever~,thing of the Ward, and therefore if therc is not 1 intornal sense. 612.

Word (of the Lord) 701 Word (of the Lord)

595. 'A rainbow abovc his head' = the interiors of the Word. Ex.

596. The Divine trnth which in Heaycn and the Chnrch is the Word.

612. For the Word is the doctrine of Divine truth, (and) cverything of r!octrine must bc l'rom the Word.

614. Examination of thc men of the Chureh as to what understanding of thc Word yet remained with them. Sig, and Ex,

__2. (Sueh) may indced he delighted with the reading of the Word, but Ilot with the truth itself whieh is of its intel'ior sense ... and thereforc the Word as ta the sense of the letter may indeed be loved, but on!y beeause it ean be drawu to confinn f,t1sities ...

615. 'A 1ittle book open' = the Word manifested by the Lord ta Heaven and thc Church.

616. The faeulty of perceiving l'rom the Lord the quality of the Word. Sig. and Ex... The Lord gives this faeu1ty to everyollc; but still no one pcrceivcs it, unless, as l'rom himself, he. wills to perceil'e it. Ex.

617. That he should read, perceive, and examine the Word as to its 'luality within aud withollt. Sig. and Ex.

__17. As the Word is Divine trnth, beforc the Lord it is, in image, like a Divine man; so that its ultimate scnse ... corresponds to the heel; and the perversion of the Word ... by the application of the sense of the letter ta Falsities ... is signified by 'ta lift up the heel upon the Lord.'

__lB. Ta read thc Word, and ta be inBtrueted l'l'am it, effects nothing for sa1v>l.tion, uni css we at the same time live according to it. Sig.

6182. When the extcriors of the Word ... are falsi. fier] and adulterated, the interior t\'llths of thc Ward are falsified and adnltcrated; and therefore wheu a man applies the Word in the sense of the letter ta the evi1s of earth1y loves, it is made undelightful to the Angels, who are in the intern'al sense. Sig.

619. That the external of the Word was 'sweet as honey,' that is, delightful, was beeanse it is such that it can be applied ta any love and any dcril'ative prin. ciple . .. 621.

624. A Divine command that (up to the end of the Chllrch) the Word is still ta be taught. Sig. and Ex... The reason was tllat it was found that the Ward was still delightful as ta the sense of the letter. Ex. 62 5. __a.

6276. The degr!:~..Qf Divine trllth in their order as they are ii11lW Word. Enum.

630. That the extemal of the Word ... is not to be examine'!. Sig. anl\ ].;X. 631. 6322.

641'. When the end of the Church is at hand, the interiOl's of the Word ... are revealed and taught, in order that the good ma)' be separated l'rom the el'il . . . Morcover, the interiors of the Word, which are rel'caled at the end of the Church, serve tlte new Chllrch, then being established, for doctrine and life. (Thus) when the end of the .Jcwish Church was at hand, the Lord Himself opened and tanght the in· teriors of the Word ... So has it been done at this

day ... whiclt revelation is meant b)' the ael vent of the Lord in Matt.xxiv. .. 6702.

64413• 'Sa shan ,),Iy Word be that gocth forth out of

:My mouth' (Is.lv.II). 'The Word' = the Divine truth proceeding l'rom the Lord, which, with us, inflo\\'s through tlte Word.

65219. 'Garners full of food' = doctrinal things l'rom the Word, thus the Ward where are ail tl'Uths of doctrine, l'rom which is spiritual instruction and llutri· tion.

6537• 'The Word of Jehovah' (ls.i.IO)=the Divine good; 'the law of onr God' =the Divine truth.

668. Everything that proceeds l'rom the Lord is callcd, in general, Divine truth, and with us in thc worlel, the Word.

684"6. 'KilOW therefore and percei l'e l'rom the going forth of the Word' (Dan,ix.25)=t'rom tlte end of the Word of the Old Testament, because titis is ta he fnlfiIT....ed1ù""'the Lord ;~ in the supreme scnse, ail things of the Ward of the Old Testament tl'eat of the Lord, and of the glorification of His Human, and thns of His dominion ol'er ail things of Heaven and the world.

701 11 • That the proceeding Divine, which is the Divine trnth, thus the Word, is 'a eovenant,' uecause it conjoins. Ill.

7109. 'Blessed are they who hear the Word of Gad, and keep it' (Luke xi.28)=to learn trnths l'rom tiIe Ward and ta live according to them.

71410. They who love tl'llth because it is tl'nth ... arc elevated from their proprium while theyare read· ing the Word, even into the light of Heavcn, and are enlightencd ...

__H. They wlto study the Word without doctrine, and are at the same time in the love of self, constitute the externals of the draconic body. Ex.

7152. Ali spiritual trut.hs are l'rom the Word, and make a one with the goad of love and of charity.

718. The falsification and adulteration of ail the Truths of the Word. Sig. and Ex. 719.

734. Theil' warfarc is not against the Word, for this they cali holy and Divine; but it is against the genuine trnths of the Word. .. 775. --'. 'The Word of Jehol'ah' (Is.ii.3)=tl'llth l'rom

the good of love.

747. That they dispnte with them continually fl'Qln the Word. Sig. and Ex.

7482. Hall' the Word is falsified, if regarded only exteriorly, and not at the same time interiorly.

754. '1'0 live l'rom the Word, is to lil'c fl'om the Lord; fol' the Lord is in the Word; nay, is the Word.

76823. The Word is sair! to be falsified when its truths are pervel'te<l, and adulterated when its goods, and also when its trnths, are applied to loves of self.

778'. How the Word is ulasphemed hy the falsifica­tion of it. Examp.

__3. The 'sin and blasphemy against thc Holy Spirit' is ta deny the Word, and also ta adulterate its

very goods and falsify its very truths. But 'ta speak

Ward (of the Lord) 702 Ward (of the Lord)

a ward against the Son of Man' is ta interlJret the natural sense of the Word ... accorrling to appear­ances. Ex.

[E. 778]<. 'l'hat to deny the Word is a sin that can­not he forgi,'en ... ta eternity ... is because those who deny the Word, deny God, deny the Lord, deny Hea"cn and Hell, and deny the Chureh and all things of it.

__6. For the Word in ultimates is like a man clad in a gl1rment, whose face and hands, however, are bare; and, where the Ward is thus hare, its goods and trulhs appear thera bare as theyare in Heaven, thus such as tbey are in the spiritual sense. (Continued under St:NSE Ot· Lt:TTER.)

783". Some infernal Spirits acquire power thl'Ough the Word; for they kno\\' some passages, and pro­nOllnce them, by which communication is etfected with the simple good ... aud they prcvl\il over others accorrlingly as they al'e in this conjllllction ; the reasou of which is that all things of the Ward are tl'Uths, and there is al! power in trnths, antl the simple good are in trnths . . .

785. The disagreement of their doctrinals with the Word, where love, life, and works are so frequently mentioned. Sig. and Ex.

790<. Therefore it is necessal'Y for thc spiritual mind to be opened and fOl'merl throngh thing,; that are in the Word, where ail things are spiritual, because Divine. Ex.

__6. 'l'he sccond reason is that the Word is from the Lord, alld hence the LOI'd is in the Word, illso­llIuch that He is the Word; for t.hc Word is Divine tmth, which is aIl from the Lord; from which it follows, that he who abstains from doiog evils because they are contrary ta the Divine prccepts in the Word, abstains from them from thc Lord.

__8. Thc spiritualmind is formed from the things which arc in the man's memory from the Word. Ex. --. This spiritual affection of tmth ... is gil'en

t.hrongh thc Ward, becanse the Lord in the Church is the Ward.

__e. Man has no lleed 1.0 'work,'. fnrthcr than ta leam tl'uths from the Ward, and ltve accordlllg ta them.

truth everywhere in the Word ... so that when goal! is taken away, the truth that remains is faIsified ...

--<. In (love 1.0 the Lord and towards the neigli, bour) are all Lhose who do goods from the Word ...

800'. On those who although in Churehes where faith alone is acknowledged, still tlo not, falsify the Word. Fullyex,

803". In order for a man ta be in enlightenment . let him read the Word every day, one chapter, or two .. ,

81 5. For the Word can never eonfirm a false dogllla nnless it is falsified; for all things of the Word are truths, and therefore all truths cau be confirmed from the Word, and by no meaus falsities.

816", The reason (any heresy can be eonfirmed frolll the Word) is that the sellse of the letter is accordiug ta the apprehension of the simplc, and therefore eon­sists in great part of appearances of truth ... In the sense of the letter of t.he Ward there are naked truths as weIl as truths clothed, and these latter are appear, anc<'s of trnth (which) can he un<1erstood only frolll passages where naked t1'uths are visible, {rom which doctrine can bc former! by the LOl'd with one who is enlightelled, and all the other things explained ac, cOI'ding ta il.. This is why those who l'ead the Word without doctrine are lerl into manifold errors. The reason the Word has been written in this way is tllat there might be conjunction of Heaven with man; and there is this conjunction because every word in il., and in some passages evcry lettcr, con tains ,\ spiritual sonse, in which the Angels arc, so that when a man perceives the Ward according to its appearanccs of truth, the Angels who encompass the man understand il spiritually... If the Word had been written differ­ent1y, no conjunction of Heaven with man wOllld

have becn possiblc. __3. As the Ward in the letter is of such a

eharader, it is as it werc a support for Heaven; fol' aIl the wisc10m of the Angels ... as to the thillgS of the Chlll'ch, is terminatcd ill the sense of the lcttcr of the Ward as in its basis ... Hence it is that the sense of the letter of the Word is most holy, and is even marc powerfnl thau its spiritual sellse. (This is shawn by the fact that) whcll Spirits brillg forward

797. That the Word is ,the Lord .because from .the 1any passagc according ta the scnse of the letter, they Lord, is because the Word IS the Dl\,tIle truth, ~wllleh) 1 al. ouce excite SOIllC hcavenly Society ta conjllncLioll proceeds from the Lord as a Snu, and that whlch pro- with them. (This shows that) e,'erything of thc ceerIs is His from wh am il. proceeds, uay, is Himself; doctrine of the Chnrch mlist bc confirmed from the and thcrefore thc Di"ine tl'uth, from which both 1 sense of the lettcr of the Word for therc ta ue any ~ngcls and men have aIl ~beir ~visdom and intelligence, 18 the Lord tIl Heaven. That It IS aIsa the Word snch as il. is with us in the world, is hecause the Word is the Divine truth in the ultimate of arder, and contains a spiritual sense, which is the Divine truth such as

it is in Heaven. '. __o. 011 those who sa falslfy the Word that they

completely close Heavcn agaillst themsel\'Cs. ' 'd' tl W d h t

798. Vif hen (1 Illgs saI III le or a ou1. le th') fI 'fi d 11 th' f th

works deecl 1 l are a Si e , a mgs a es, ane 'olllg Word' are falsifie,l; for al! thc other tbings of the Word which are caller! its truths, live from those

holiness or powe~' in it, an,d this ~r?m those book~ of thc Word III wluch there IS a srmLual sense. (lhls also shows) how nangcrons it is ta sa falsify the Word as 1.0 destroy the Divine tl'l1th that is in its spirit.ual sense; for by sa doing Heavcn is closed 1.0 man, 832~,

1 " See FALsIFY here. __e. 8883 etc.8 9· , , 825. For that which is confirmed from t~le Word, is

confirmed from Heaven, lint when falslty IS confirmed . ' . . '1·· H b

from the Word, II. IS not confilmeCl 10m eaven, utb

ollly appcars (to e sa). 826. 'Vhen reasonings (from the natural man) are

thing~ ... llIorcoycr, therc is a marriage of good and '. confirmed from the Word, they become etfectual, the

Ward (of the Lord) 703 Ward (of the Lord)

reason of which is that the Word is Divine, aud in the sense of the letter consists of appearanees of truth ...

832. Fol' cach and ail things of the Word comtnuni­cate with the Hea\'ens, f"om which there inflows what is holy into one who is speaking or preaching it ...

__3. Ali love hecomes spiritual throllgh truths from the Word in propol·tion a~ the lIlan acknowledges them, and sees them in his understauding, and aftel'­wards lo,:es, that is, does them from the will.

8462. III ol'<ler that man ma)' from enlightenment see and pereeive the gennine Truths of the Word, the three degree~ of the understanding, natura!, rational, and spiritual, mnst be together. Ex.

888". Fol' the Word in the whole complex regards the life of man, th us works; fol' the Lord says that the law and the prophets hang upon these (two great) comJl1:lndments.

9[43• ~'or when the Word i~ cxplained in favonr of earthly loves, and to confirm falsities of doctrine, the Ohm'ch is laid waste; but not when the Word is understood in simplieity aeeorrling to the sense of the let tel' ...

937". Fol' conversation with the Lord is throngh the Word.

9412. When the spiritual internai has been opened . . . the man is enlightened, especially wh en he is reading the Word, becanse the Lord is in the \\Tord, and the Word is the Divine truth, (which) is light to the Angels.

9482. The Word interiorly revcaled, before the Church had heen completely devastated. TI'. and Ex. 956.

96o'". 'The name of God' (which is not to be taken in vain) = ... the Divine truth, and, with us, the Word.

__15. There are two things by whieh Heaven is elo~ed against the men of the Ohureh; one is the denial of the Divillity of the Lord, and the other is tlte denial of the holiness of the Word. Ex.

974. This is why an internaI holiness from the Angels inflows into the external thought of the man who holds the Word to he holy, although he is unaware of it.

983. Fol' they who remove a life aecording to the LOI'd's commaudments, annihilate ail things of the Word; for aIl things of the Word are precepts of life ; the l'recept~ of faith which are the truths of the Word, teaeh life.

985". As the members of generation ... correspond to the Societies of the Thini Hcaven, and as the love between m3-rried partners corresponds to the love he­tween good and tl'1lth, thereforc those merubers and this love correspond to the Word, the reason of which is that the Word is the Di\'inc trnth united to Divine good that proeeeds from the Lord; and henee it is that the Lord is called the Word; and from this also it is that in everything of thc Word there is the mar­riage of good and truth. --. This also is why adnlterers make Di\'ine truths,

and consequently the Word, of 110 account ...

988". The Reformed emerged into some light by the reading of the Word .

10063• They who have studied the Word solely for the sake of glory ... breathe forth adulteries as of a father with a daughter-iu-Iaw.

10243. For the Word is Divine trut.h itself, thus Divine wisdom, proceeding from the Lord as a Sun, and appearing in the Heavens as light. The Divine truth is that Divine which is calicd 'the Holy Spirit' ...

1028. That the Word has been falsified even to the ,Iestruetion of aIl genuine tl'llth. Sig.

1033. (That religiosity) dOlllinating over ail things of the Word. Sig. and Ex.

__3. For the genuine tl'llths'of the Word are like a man; and the appearances of truth of whieh the sense of the letter consists, arc likc his garmcnts ...

10382. How the Divine Word can be signilied by 'a beast.' Ex.

1054. That the Word was at first rcceived in the Chnrch and read, and was af'terwards takcn away from the peOple and not read. Sig. and Ex. 1058.

1055. That the Word is rejected by t.hem. Sig. and Ex. 1056.

1062. The goods of the Word adulteratcd and pro­faned by thcm. Sig. aud Ex.

1063. The tl'llths of tbc Word falsified and profancd by tbem. Sig. and Ex.

10643. The fifth killtl of profanation ... consists in jesting l'rom the Word, 311<1 abont. thc Word. Ex.

10653. On the WOl'd and ils holincss. Seriatim articles. 1066:', etc.

10663• Thc four senses of the \Vord. Enl1m. and Ex.

10673. That the Word is Divine trutb itself, which give;; wisdom to Angels, and enlightcns men. ·Ex.

__o. Hence it is that the mau who reads the Word from the affection of truth, has enlightcnlllent through Heavcn from the Lord.

10692. That the Lord is the Word. Ex. 1070. Those (of thern) who havc ascribed Di\'iue

holiuess to the Word, and not to the decrees of the Pope. Sig. and Ex. 1071. 1°72.

1 1073". That the Word is sueh, is because in its origin it is the Divine itself proeeeding l'rom the Lord,

1 which is called Divine tl'llth, and when this was sent down to men in the world, it passed throl1gh the Heayens in their order and in each Hcaven it was written accolllmodatcdly to tbe wisdolll and intelli· gence of the Angels the rein from which it is evident that aIl the wisdom of the Angels in the tlll'ee Hea\'ens has becn implanted hy the Lord in onr Word ... and, as the Divine trutll is the Lord in the Heavens, the Lord Him~elf i8 present in eaeh and al! things of His Word, as He is in His Heavens, and may be said to dwell in them.

lO74". As the Diviue truth ... has heen written in each Heaven, and made the Word, the Word is the union of the Heavens with eaeh otlier, and also the union of the Heavens with the Ohureh in the worlel; for the Sllmc Ward is everywhere, and differs only in the perfection of glory and wisdom, aecording to the dCfrrees in which the Ueavcns are. (Continueel uuder R:AD.) 1082".

Word (of the Lord) 704 Word (of the Lord)

[E.] 10772. The Word of the Lord is wonderful in this: that in every particular of it there is a reciproeal unition of-good a~ truth, whieh testifies lat the Word is the Divine that pl~oeeeds from the Lord, whieh

( is Divine good an.l Divine truth reeiproeall united; aud testifies also that there is in tllL or--.J)teJUaITÛlge

.Jo of the Lord with He~v~and the Cbmch, which also is 1\ rceiproeal. Ex. and Ill.

1079'. Eaeh least partieular of the Word con tains senses more and more interiOl', (sueh as exist in the three Heavens in order). These senses are in the sen. e of the lettel', one within another, and t le)' are evolved tlïfëiÇQjû, one artel' another, eaeh from its own Heaven, wheu t·he Word is read b a man who is led by the Lorù... (This shows) how the Word has been inspired by the Divine, and that it is written from an inspiration to whieh nothing else. in the world can be eompareù. The areana of wisdom of the tlll'ee Heavens which arc in it, arc the mystieal things of which man)' have spoken.

10802. Thel'e is a Word in eaeh Heaven, and these Words are in 0111' Word in lheir order, and thus make one by influx and the del'il·ative cOl'l'espondences. Ex, 1081 2•

1083'. As there is a trine of one thing within another in every Jeast thing of the Word, and as this trine is like elrect, canse, and end, it follows that there arc tlHee senses in the Word. Ex. anù Examps. 1084',Ex.

10842. How a man, from the Word in the letter, caUs forth a natural sense, a spiritual Angel a spiritual sense, and a eelestial Angel a eelestial sense, and this in an instant, whenee cornes eonjunetion and eommuuieation. Ill. by corn parisons.

10853. (This shows) what a profanation it is to falsif)' the truths and adulterate the goods of the Word; and how infel'l1al it is to deny or invalidate its holiness. As soon as this is done, Heaven is closed against that mau of the Ch11l·eh. The hlasphemy against the Holy Spirit ... is the blaspheming of the Word by those who den)' ils holiness. As the Word is the basis of the Heavens, and as it had been wholly falsified and adulter­a.ted by the Jewish nation ... therefore, lest the Heavens should be endangered, and the wisdom of the Angels there should beeome foolishness, it pleased the Lord to descend from Heaven, and ... beeome the Word ...

10865• As ((Il higher things place themselves in the lowest ones in simultaneous orde,', it folloll's that in the u1timates of the Word ... are ail things of Divine tl'Uth and Divine good even from their primes ... (thus) the power of Divine truth is there, and the omnipotence of the Lord in saving man. Ex.

10892. That no one ean understand the Word ll'ithout doctrine. Ex.

__3. Yet doctrine can be acquired solely from the Word. Ex.

__e. He who loves truth beeause it is truth, can as it were interrogate the Lord in doubtfut malters of faith, and reecive answers l'rom Him; but nowhere eise than in the Word, for the reason that the Lord is thc Word.

1106. Fol' ail things that man .lraws from the Word are' a "oice from Hcaven.'

11302. For the Ward nevel' eonfirms evil (unless it is falsined).

11732• That the Lord does not teaeh man truths im·mediately. , . but mediately through the Word ... l<:x.

1177. In~ate revelation is not given, exeept that whieh has been given in the Word ... which is sueh that everyone may be taught aeeording to the a{fection~ \ of hi~ love, amI the derivativc thoughts of his under) standmg ... Ex.

--'. (Th us) the Lord teaehes the man of the Church immediately through th Wo.rd, aeeording to the 10l'e of his will whieh he has ùy his life, and a.eeording ta the light of his understanding whieh he has by his knowledge; and nothing else is possible, because this is the Divine order of influx.

__3. Even those ontside the Christian world, and who have not the Word, are taught in no other ll'a)', Ex. 11792•

1228. Thus has the Word been writte b the Lord)\,hJ': the media of .A.n"els. Ex. "1

~.) 261. The Word in (the Hebrew) letter has a IllOI' Immediate communication \Vith Heaven.

~v~ Title. On the Hol)' Seripture, or Word of e Lor , from Experience.

2. That the Word is interior!y alive. Ex.

4. On the WOl'd: that it is holy as to the letters and al'exes. Ex.

6. On the Word and natmal theology ... Ex. --, On the excellent style in the Word.

9. That the)' who have (worldly ends) see nothing of gennine truth in the Word. Ex.'

II. That the wisdolll of the Angels ~'ee

~s is l'rom the Lord hr~lgh~ord ... Ex.

12. On enlightenment throngh the Word.

13. How greatly the mediate re\'elation e{fee\&d tllI'OU h the Wor surpasses the revelation whieh is etfeeted through Spirits.

Ex.

whieh is)\ immediate Ex.

14. On the Word in the Heavens. Gen.art. --. Without the Word there would be no

Heaven ... --- The Word in the Spiritual Kingdom. Ex. 24. __3. The Word in the Celestia! Kingdolll. Ex. 24. -_•. How the spiritual Word, and the eelestia.l

Word, ditfer in their writing. Ex. __ 5. The ditference between the three Words, the

na.lural, the s.piritual, and the eelestial, shown by au examp,

7 (This sho\\'s) the nature of the Word in ils bosom. --. In OUi' natural Word, thel'efore, are ainec1

both the spiritual W2!-d, a_lI(\ the celestial Word; bllt in (these) is no eontailled the natmal Word; and there­fore the Word . 'or is the most fi 'vine)) w' 'dom, and so is more hol)' than the Words of the Heavens,

15, On the old Word whieh is lost. __3. The religions of ma.ny nations were deril'cd .. from this (old) Word.

Word-vox 705 Word-vox

16. On the nations and peoples outside the Church, with whom there is not the Word. Gcn.art.

1 Î 22. It is better for man 1.0 understand the Ward , \. accordin<T to~tter, in very many places. ExaiiÎps..

D. Wi . xi. 2a. They who are in the love of truth arc ac ually in the light of Heaven, and are therefore in enlightenment, and in the perception of truth when they are reading the Ward. Ail others are only in the confirnl,l:Ltion of their own principles. Ex.

Dicta Probantia. The Ward, through which the Churc wou d revive. Sig. (in Dan.iv.15).

ln 24. The Reformation taok place for the sole I·~~t the Word, which had Iain buried, mlg 1. retnrn into the world. Ex.

55. II. pleased the Lord 1.0 prcpare me (Swedenborg) l'rom my earlicst youth 1.0 perceive the Word ...

~ 234. "'hen Heaven was opened ta me, 1 had first to learn t.he Hebrew language, as weU as the correspondences accoLding.JQ...}\'hiclLthlL\vhole Bible is com osed, Wlliêh led me 1.0 read over the Ward of Gad maliy times; and as God's Ward is the source whencc ail theology must be derived, 1 was enabled thereby 1.0 receive instruction l'l'Dm the Lord, who is the Word.

Word. Vox. ce VOIGE::;;;;X; and under EXPRRSSIOK, and SPEAK.

@2e• Whatever ward in the Ward does not involve th Lord, is not Divine.

4e. There is not the least of Il ward whieh is not representative ...

41. Every ward, etc. of an Angelic Spirit is alive. Ex.

64. The Angels do not know even the proximate meaning of a single word (of. the letter)... They have only the idea of the Things signified by the words and names.

241. He who fixes his attention on the sense of the words, hears the words, but as il. wcre does not hear them ... but he who attends ta the words (only) apprehends little of the sense ... and sometimes forms a judgment of ail that is said t'rom a single ward, D'· grammatical fonn.

607. The lIIost Ancients did not spcak sa llIuch by words ...

608. With external respiratioH came the speech of words, thal. is, of articu!ate soullCIs, into which werc deterlUined the ideas of thought.

621. In the 'Word, one ward is Hever used instead of another.

771. Every ward in the Word is l'rom the Lord. Ex.

793. The.y who are in the inte1'l1a.l sense can know ... l'l'Dm a single ward what is the subject treated of . . . When a difrerent subject is treated of, the words arc at oncc different, or the same words stand in a different connection. The reason is that there are words peculiar ta spiritual things, and words pecnIiar 1.0 celestial things ... Examps... In the Hebrew they are very often distinguishable by the sound. Ex.

1007". Therefore such mild words are here used. VOL. VI.

1118. Not like the speech of words, of am time... 1120.

__2. Than by articnlate sound s, or sonorons words ... --. There is nothillg in any word that is Ilot

direcœd by applications of the breathing.

1388. The C)uality of Spirits known l'rom every ward. Ex. 16402. D.3064, Ex.

1391. Spirits can represent morc by one idea than they can uttcr by a thonsand words.

16372. The language of Spirits is not of words ... Wheu with mau, their ideas pess into the words that arc in the man; and ... they suppose the words 1.0 be their own.

1638. The words they speak ... are weil chosen and clenr, full of meaning, and distinctly pronounced ... They choose the words bctter and more promptly than the man himself ... for the ideas of their language intlow only into words that are fitting; almost as when a man speaks, and thinks nothing about the words ... for then the thonght l'ails readily ami spontaneously into the words: il. is the internai meaning thal. b"ings forth the words.

1639. Thc speech of WOl'ds is that proper 1.0 man, in fact 1.0 his corporeallllemory.

__2. Every ward con tains an idea of great possible extensiou ...

1641. Ideas the primitives of words.

1648. In chairs thp.y havc no thought about the words, 01' ideas ... The words follow spontaneously l'rom the meaning.

1756. The series ... cannat ap1'ear when each thing is explained according ta the signification of the words ... As with one who hcars another ... and pays attention ta the words.

__2. The most ancient mode of writing represented subjects ... by words that \Vere understood C)uite differently.

1757. The speech of Spirits among themselves is effected by ideas, the originaries of words. 1876,Ex.

1759. The speech of celestial Spirits cannot easily infiow into the articulate sounds, or words, with man; for il. cannot be fitted ta a ward in which there is any­thing that sounds harshly ...

17632. Others spoke by a belching of words, as l'rom the belly.

1870. Each of the words (in the Word) presents in forlll its 0\\'11 i.lea; fol' a word is nothing but an idea so presenteù in fonTl thal. the sense may be perceived.

__2. The Ward is inspircd, not only as ta cach word, but as 1.0 the letters ...

18762. No part of a ward of the Word can l'ass 1.0 Spirits ...

19253. How the speaking (of the 'Word) came 1.0 man by words ot' artieulate sound. Ex.

19362. Thcre are inexhaustible thi11gS in cvery ward of thc Word ...

, 19552. Angelic ideas do not [ail into the words, but only in ta the sense of the words ...

2Y

Ward-vox 706 Ward-vox

rA.] 2157. They who perceive the Wonl as to the words, that is, by idens formed into words by means affection, pa)" no attention to the words . . . of such things as are of the world alld its light.

22092. SonJs speak together most distinctly, yet 5287. Sa far as thought and speech are determined without the speech of words. ta ... words, they become less universal ...

2236. (The intel'llal sense is here) not so evi<1ent __2. (Thus) in sa far as the thou~ht reg~rds the from the signification of the words . . . 1 words of a speaker, it does not regard Ills meanlllg. , 56144. The interiOl' mind ... does not think from2303. Angelic speech, not distinct in words.

the words of any language ...23 1I. Ali the words have a spiritual sense. dl56482. 'l'hase in tbe other life ... nnderstan nO 2333'· The internaI seuse does not come into view, human words, but only the sense of the words ; llnd

nnless the words are explained one by oue according to this not aecording to the man's natur",1 thonghts, but their constant significatioll. according ta his thoughts that are spiritual.

23432• The series cannot appear fully in the explana- 5757°. Why one word sometimes means many

tion 01' the seveml words . . . thiugs.

2470°. The ideas belong ta the Angels and Spirits, 63 19'. Man thinks in a moment more than he elln the words into which they inflow, to the man. utter in half nn hour, becanse he thinks abstractedly

2472. Men cannat speak together except by langnages from the words of language. distingnished into articulate sonmis, that is, into words 63432. There are words whieh constantly = good ; . , , becllnse (they speak) l'l'am the exterior memory, words which constantly = trnth; and words which

2643°. These are Divine things whieh clion be ex- constantly= bath .. , 8314. 8330. 102543, S.800, pressed by no forms or 1'0l'1nulae of words. 6516°. In (spiritual writings) al! the words, and even

33422. Wh en (speech that is heard) ascends towards the syllables, inyolve sncb t.bings as are of that Wodd, tbo interiOJ's, it passes into ideas not ull!ike those of thus spiritual thillgs, and theyare porceived from the sigbt, and fl'om these into intellectnal ideas, and thns aspiration, and l'rom the affection that resnlts fronl becomes a perception of the sense of the words. their ntteranee, thus from a milder or a harsher morli­

3343. The ideas (of the interior Heaven) are not fication, expressible in words . . . 6621. The thought was then as il. were kept il)

3952. Why this has been explained for the most prison; for it was determined solely ta the words, by part only as ta the signification of the words . , . withdrawing the mind from the senSe. D.1950.

396914. There are words in the ''lord that express 66222. Sa, innnmerable things coneur ta one ward, spiritual things, and words that express celestial things, as foldings of the !ips, etc. and this constantly. Examp. 6623. The Angels cao know, from a single ward that

4043'. Ail hnlUan words. , . as they involve natnral cames forth from the thollght, the qnality of a Spirit, things, arc inauequate ta express these things. or man.

4136<. There is lIOt a sillgle ward used in the Ward 6624. Ideas of thought arc the words of Spirits;. and ideas of thonght still more interior are the wordsthat does not invoive a heavenly arcannIn. of Angels. Ideas, bcing the words of speech, are

44°2', The Word is inspired as tu al! the words . .. sonorous (there) ; so that the taeit thougllt of man is 44°6°. As man's spirit is in the light of Heaven .. , audible ta Spirits and Angels, when the Lord sa pleases.

many things that are interiOl' have fallen into words 7745. (that are nsed correspondentially). 681 4. (The Spirits of Mercury) are averse ta the

44934. Like one who. , , takes in the scnse, and speech of words, ùecause it is materia! , , . does not attend ta the words. 5165~· 6924°. Affec.tations of elegance . , , hide Things, and --. Like one who is intellt upon the words . , present words, which are the materia! forms of Things,

45282 . The speech of AlIgels is efl'ected by means of 6974•. In the Ward, where truth is expressed hy ils spiritu.al and-celestial ideas, which ta them arc the words, goad is also expressed by its words .. , forms of words ...

69872. It appears as if the words of speech \Vere in 4585'. There is no other way thll.n ta use these the thollght, but it is a fallaoy ...

words; for \Vithout words adapted ta the suhject, __. When the spoech of the spirit" infiows into the nothing eau bc described. correspondcntorgans of the body, it presents the speech

46092, The things which then appear, , . do not of words . , , fall into words; for human words Il.re from ideas 1 --. Yet, the words of spiritual speech are not formed frol11 things that are in the light of the world. sneh words as man uses in the body, uut are ideas , ..

, (Philosophica! things) aro mostly bare 1 7°89°, FOI' spiritnal speech is not one of material words. . . words, bnt of spiritual words, which are ideas modified

5°752, TIre interiOl' significati"es of words originate into words in the spiritnal aura, . , for the most pal·t 1'1'0111 the interior man. . . 8022. The speech (of the Angels of Jnpiter) was not

5212, Lowest truths.,. being in the external effected (with me) ùy words, bnt by ideas, .. Sa do memory . , . Clion be represented ta others by forms of they speak with the men of their Earth, Ex,

49664

Word-vox 707 Word-vox

82498. The Most Ancients could not have the speech of words, uecause the words of language werc not ponred in immediately, but had to ue invellted alld applied ta Things, which conld not be donc except in course of time.

82502, The dissidencc is clearly perceived iu every word, and in thc tone of e\-ery ward, , .

8314'l, In the .,"0ni the"e are words that belollg ta the spiritnal class, and words that belollg ta the celestial class ... There are also words that arc pre· dicated of bath (tmth and good).

8420, The spiritual signification is seen ill the very word 'walk,' as in many others,

84432. Trnth Divine in the fil'th degrce is such as is in the First Heayell . , . and is snch that a great part of it cali IlOt be utterad in human words.

8733· In order to kllOw the thouglJt (of thc spiritual) it must be collectcd l'rom their words; but with the celestial it is IlOt sa , . ,

8990·. For the intcrior sense of very lllany words has f10wed l'rom the Spiritual 'Vodd l'rom corre­spondences. Examps.

90942. When let down again into the light of the natul'al man, l could not express in words the things l had heard ...

9258. For words adapt themselves ta their sub· ject ...

106042. The initialllents of the thoughts are devoid of words of speech ...

10708. The quasi articulate speech (in thc Fourth Earth) is not by words, but by ideas .. ,

10709". The speech of words is rela.tiyely ma.terial.

J. There is an internai scnse ... not only as ta the sense of many words, but also as ta every wOl·d.

235. Angelic speech is equally distinguished iuto words as is human speech ... and the Angels utter their words by means of the respiration ...

236. The articulatious of sound, which are words, conespoud (there) ta the ideas of thought ...

237. The angelie language has nothing in conllnon \Vith hllman langnages, except some words, \\'hich soulld l'rom some affection; yet not with the words thernselves, bllt \Vith their sound. --. The Angels-eannot uttel' OIlC word of hnlllllll

langullge ; it has bcen trieci ...

239. (The Angels) can express by one word what lIlan cunllot by a t.housand words. --'. The iùeas of thought of tho Angels, from

which are their words, are modilicatiolls of the light of Heaveu ; and the affections, fr(lll) which is the sound of the words, are variations of its hcat ...

240. ily a few words, the Angels can present what has been wdtIen on many pages.

__2. The ideas of thought of the Angels, and the words of their speech, thus make a one ... and this is why every word comprohenùs in it so many things.

2412. From the words of the Word in the Hebrew, it may in some measure he known whcthcr they belong

ta the celestial or the spiritual class , .. those which involve good partake mueh of u and 0, and somewhat of a; and those which involve truth, of e and i. .. In human discolll'se alsa, when great snbjects are treated of ... those words are preferred that con tain the vowels u and o.

262. (In the writings in Hoaven) the haml does not hesitate in the choiee of any word, bccause the words they speak, as weil as those they write, correspond to the ideas of their thought ...

269. The ([uality of tho wisdom of the Angels cannat be ùescribed in words ... The Angels can express in one word what a luan cannat in a thousand words; moreover in onu angelic word there are in­numerable things that cannot be eX'pressed in the worda of human language ... What the Angels do not fully express by the words of their speech, they supply in the tone ... They ean utter in a few words ail the thillgs written in a volume ... and insert into cvery word sueh things as clevate to interior wisdom ; for ... every word is consonan t to theil' iùeas; and the words are varied iu inlinite modes accordiug t.o t.he series of the Things ...

__2. The intel"Ïol' Angcls are able to know the entire lifo of a speaker l'rom the tonc and some words, ..

284". 1 can describe the peace of Heaven, but not in words, such as it is in itself, because human words are not adequate, but only in words such as it is eomp'lI'atively ...

U. 23". A speaker who draws attention more ta Ills words than to the mCllning of his words, affects tho hearing o(anothel~ïanhis~

1..;;1412. No word can be wanting without the series of Things in the Î1iternal sense suffcring a conscquent change.

S 18. That it is l'rom the spiritual sense that the \\ ord is ... holy in every word. Ex.

@'J280. From the sonnd thc Angels know a man's love, frOtn the articulation of the sound, his wisdom, and l'l'am the sense of the words, his knowledge. They say that thesc throc are in overy word, because u word is as a oonclusion ; for the sound, the articulation, and the sense arC in it... From ovory word of one who is speaking in a scrics, the celcstial Angels l'erceive tlle general state of his lower mimI, ami some of the l'arti­culaI' states also. <,Vhat there is in overy word of the Ward. Ex.)

281. This is why it is said ... that a mau shaH rondel' an "ccouut of his words. D.2661.

295. Thcre was no word of spiritnal spcoch that was like any word of uatural speech ...

306. (This) cannat hc described othenviso Ily words I!owing l'rom natlll'ai ideas; but it can by words Ilowing l'rom spidtual ideas, because these are apart l'rom space (and which thereforc) do l',ot fall into any words of natural language.

0258. Place Salvation in certain words. .. 2643. 279'·

M. 326•. (Thc words of spiritual language arc not

Word-1Io;t' 708 Word-vox

understood by Spirits themselves when thc Spirits are 1 certain words l'rom my collection to insert them in with men. Shown.) what l was writing, and l took a single word ...

D TI d fl' that was not in my memory, there occurred a change . 1147· le wor .s are oWlIlg... 1 of Spirits ... The rcason was that Spirits succeeded

1394. The words 01 speech are ail l'rom naturai things who indnlge in words, or the materials of speech, but .. but the sense is spiritual. the former only in thoughts: thus l learned l'rom ex· 1645. The cclestiallove soft words . . . perience that these two kinds of Spirits cannot he

1735. If one word is uttered-as ail word8 are ideas togcther ... ·-that word is as it were put on (by the Spirits). . . 4342. When Spirits are speaking together, they cau­

2002. There is a certain nnivcrsal sphere of the n.ot bring forth ... a word of human language. (Con­thonghts which mIes. , . so that ail the words or tmucd under SPEAK.) idcas f10w fitly . . . 47842. For many of these(ideas) make one idea of

21 38. ,\Then these (spiritual ideas) inflow into the speech, or one word. memory of a man, they excite corresponding words . . . 4866. Examps. of the articnlate words of spiritual

__o. Spirits excite the ideas, conseqnently the langnage. 6063. 6090. J.(Post·)324· KI07"· words, which are in agrcement with their nature. 4871. Not a single word of the (infernaJs) can he

2142. Spirits speak hy ideas the primitives of words; uttered by the Angels ... for in cvery word there is sorne inea, and in every 5112. 'l'he words of the spiritnal Angels ... ha.ve composition of words, a composite idea . . . an affinity with the vowels e and i ... but the words

__2. When (theü' speech) entcred my intel'lla! of the celestial Angels, with a, 0, and Il ••• Therefore sense, [it fell] into distinct words . . . when a man is speaking with the latter, he is divertcd

2251. l have spoken with Spirits by ideas onJy, l'rom words that contain e and i, to words that contain withont words, and they have nnderstood as weil as a, 0, and u. with words. . . 5114. Hence, in the Hebrew language, and, in

2285. Particulars are thc words of every lan. general, in the most ancient language, there \l'ere gnage. . . words proper to the celestial class, and to the spiritual

2301. Nay, the ideas of the words ... are ma- cJass; and sorne cornmon to both. terial. . . 5561. The words (in the writing of the spiritnal

2370. He who inheres in words, inheres in material Heaven) are aeeording to their natnral ideas.

and eorporeal things . . . 5579. In the Spiritual Kingdom (the writing) is 2380. On thosc who inhere solely in the words of the made by words written in a Iike diction to that (here);

'\Tord. . . bnt the words therc are l'rom their natura! or universal 24 10• The Angels ean then know how many times l language ... l have oft~n seen snch words in Roman

have l'earl these words . . . letters, but wh en l was lU the natural sphere l ullder·

2472. Each word is as it werc a vessel . stood n.othing whateverof the.m . . . .. . __o. But the wntlllg of the celestlal IS qmte

2631. Nature of the Hcbrew words. different ... They express, by one snch (infleeted) 2961. They who are high ovel' head perceive the form, more than can be expressed by very many words

sense without being clisturbed by the words. in the spiritual language ...

2969. Fitting words then follow . . . 5585. The speech of Spirits ... is l'rom their interior 3043. That an idea remains attache,1 to a word. llIemory, the ideas fro~l which become wor~s, but such __o. Therefore snch words shonld be constant1y as a~c.ol:d wlth the ThlllgS themselves; wluch also are

used as have hacl an idea once impressecl Oll thelll. the lllltlamellts of natural words. 5587· The celestial do not speak anything l'rom their

3050". For evcry word has an iclea whieh is of greatextensioll . . . interior, because this cloes not l'ail into words.

3210. That the qnality of a man is sometimes Known 5588. The :deas of the speaking thought, with man, l'rom a single word. Ex. are devoid of words ...

3278•. Theil' thonght cloes not fall into words, but 5589. Every subjeet has its own conformity ... amI into motions of the Iips. these eonformed ideas fall, with Spirits, into words,

which are distinctly enunciated, and are distinctly and 3423. Spirits and Angels use familial' words, and no 1sonorous y heard ...

word is introdneed that multiplies the sense, or diverts __2. (Thus, spiritual) speech is one of words, but it; (they avoid) an artful elegance and combination of words. . . of entirely dilferent words, being fOlomed according to

the natUl'e of the Thillg [spoken of], and articnlated 3637. A speech of words (in which attention is paid by the sound ...

ollly) to the sense of the words. Des. 5589a. How mueh the words of the language of 3812. (Sueh) anslVer the same purpose as certain Spirits differ l'rom the words of that of men. Ex.

words ... as connectives. 5594. l could express even mate-ria! things without 4J43· On the materials of words.-When l took 1 words .•.

1

Work 709 Work

5606. The fourth class ... attend solely ta the words (of the Word) ...

5964. In (that 'Word) there are words whieh only the wiser (Angels) understand ...

5965. (Thus) the writings in Heaven (eontain) words that eontain more than those who read them are aware of ...

6062. Not like the inspiration of a prophet, to whol11 ail the several words werc dietated.

6~One I.~ttcr (therc) means an entire word.

~: Min) 4617. How much' 1110rc perfeet are ideas than woros of speech. Ex.Il (Q~t.) 324. Thc Spirits and Angels wcrc told ta

spca ords ... in their spiritual state, and to retain thcm when with Ille in a lIatural state, and then not any word was similar, nor did they nnderstand allY of th il' own words. Examp.

<PilV~o. 33• lt was gmnted ta some Angels of thc

Mid c cavcn ta speak with some of the Third Heavcn, and ta retain in the mernory what they had said, and afterwards ta return illto their own Heavell, and they toltl me that they could not express allY idea or any word of the previons state.

__7. 1 have retained the words (uttcred by thc Angels) and have aftenvarùs examined ta scc whethcr any word coincide~' with any word ... of men, and thcre has not been one.

26. The spiritual Angels uttel' the words of their speech according ta correspondences. ExaJ1ll'.

__3. They have correspondellces in the words of their speech which prcvionsly they had not known... Thcir words arc aU formed l'l'am correspolldenees. Examps.

Work. Opera. A. 6393. That still he labours with cvcr)' exertion.

Sig. and Ex. 8976. A state of contirmed trnth without his exer­

tion. Sig. and Ex.

R. 956. Without thcir exertion. Sig. and Ex.

M. 2072. '~TC have heanl that in Heaven there are .. wonderful handicrafts. __3. In Heaven therc are ... also lllechanicai arts

ami handicrafts. __6. They were then brought ta the wonrlerful

handicrafts that are performed in a spiritual manner by the artificers

T. 71 2. Man must puri l'y himself l'rom sins by his own exertion and power. __3.

D. 6088'. In the Hells, ail are driven ta their works . . Thus are they driven ta their labonrs. E.12263•

E. 11913. All the inhabitants (of Hcaven) love uses, -and perform them by varions kinds of work.

1226'. The uses they pcrform ill the Heayells, allù the works they do in the Relis, are in part like those done (hOl'e); but most of the uses arc spiritual ...

J. (Post.) 230. In Rcll (such) rcrnaill under the super­vision of a ,iudge, who imposes tasks on then! which they must do daily, (otherwise) no food, garment, or

bed is given them; and if they do them negligcntly thcy a.re severely punished. Thus by tasks adapted ta them they are withdrawn from the rlelights of their will. D.Love xv2•

D. Wis. vii. 53. The ma.nual employments (or handi­erafts-operae manlla1'iae of the Angels), whieh arc innnmerable, and the duties of their callings, ditl'er in the same way l'rom the employments (or crafts) and duties of Ilaturai men in the \l'orld; and therefore cannot be deseribed in words of human language.

xi.4. That nse is to diseharge ouc's office, and do onc's work rightly, faithflllly, sincerely, and ,iustly. Ex. --. (Then) everyone ... is rloing uses daily ... a

workruan by his craft.

Work. Opus. See nnder ACT, Do, and USE.

A. 63. Therefore the regenerate lllan is ea.lled in the Prophets, 'the work of the fingers of God.'

84. 'On the seven th Jay God finished His work .. .' (Gen.ii.2)=the celestial man ...

88. 'Vhen the spiritnal man beeomes celestia!, he is ealled 'the work of Gad,' because the Lord alone has fongh t fol', createc1, formed, and made him ... Ill.

348. 'The fruit of the ground' = works of l'ai th with· out charity ... for (sneh) are works of no l'ai th, und, in themselves, arc dead, Leing of the extemal man only.

53!. 'He shall comfort us for our work .. .' (Gen.v. 29)=t!oetrine, by whieh what has been peryerted shollld be restored... By 'work' is signified tbat they would not be able ta perceive what truth is without labour and distress... There is work and labour of our hands, when men have ta seek what is truc, and do what is good, l'rom thel1lselves, or from what is their Own.

8483. When he rcReets about thc goods of charÎt.y, or, as they are ealled, good worka ...

8803• Man's NatUl'al is what does a wor). of charity . .. Lut, in itself, this work is dead, and lives ouly l'rom what is spiritual that is in the work, and what is spiritual does Ilot live except l'rom what is celestial, whidl lives from the Lord; aud from this it is called a good work ...

__3. (Th us) in every work of charity, the work itself is only somethiug materia1.

1110. On those who have plaeed merit and righteous­lIess in good works. III!.

__0. These are vastatcd , hecause they have performed good works .

1679". With one who believes in meritiug salvation by works, and confirms hilllself in it ...

__0. Oue who believes that piety of life is impos­sible without merit being placcd in works ...

1873- It was said that good works are the fruit of faith iu the external sense ... but that these goad works have no life unless they procecd from charity.

__0. For thus iu the goot! work there is charity; in this love to the Lord; and in tbis the Lord Himself.

2039". The eelestial things of love are (here) deseribed by the warks of charity. Enum.

Sense (bodily) 693 Sense, Abstract

... The 10\Tc of nOlll'ishing oue's self from the love of imbuing oue's self with goods and truths, has the sense of taste... The love of Knowing objects, from the love of being circumspect and of guarding one's self, has the sense of touch ... and the reason the love of conjoining one's self \\·ith a mate, from the love of uniting good and truth, has the sense of touch, is that this sense is the eommon sense of ail the senses ...

1. 8. That ... lo\'e and "'isdom ... inflow conjointly into the soul; through this into the mind, its all'ections and thoughts; and from these into the senses, speech, and actions of the hody. Gen. art.

T. 3356• Through their brains, the Spiritual Worlel iuflows illlmediately iuto the senses of the hody (of animaIs).

5773• Thel'e is sueh a co-operation in el'el'Y sense ...

763. What is sense without l'elation ... to opposites 1

775· It is aecording to Divine arder that there he generals and particulars, and tha t hoth be together in every single thing... So it is with el'ery sense of the body: with the sight, hearing, smell, tas te, and touch; and sa it is with a1l the internaI senses, whieh are of the mind.

D. 399. That evil Spirits can, permissil'ely, induce almost any sense, as it were heavenly ...

899. There are two ways into the human under· standing; tluough the senses-through this way is born the understanding-and through Heaven ...

904, 905· Hearing and sight belong to provinces of spiritual, and the rest of the senses, to provinces of celestial things.

1343. On sense, and representations (there).

1415. On the Spirits (of bIereury) who constitute those things in m3.n whieh are called the inlel'llal sense. 1418. 142 5. 1428. 1454· 1455· 3258.

1442. On the interior sense of man. 1445. 1448.

1718. Without sense there is no life, either corporeal or spiritual; and ail sense relates to toueh, even the more interiOl' and inmost senses, as may he known to everyone even from the sense of sight and of hearing. 17 19.

2191. Corresl'oudence of the Heayens as to degrees with the senses in the body.

2209. That if man were in order he would still enjoy every sense which brutes do.-Some brutes possess a sense of knowing the way home ... which sense is a general one in those who live aecordiug to order ...

2386. Man (even here) has not the sense of touch, and the l'est of the senses, from the body; but from the spirit which is in it ...

__Co This is the cause of the corporeal touches which come forth only \Vith those \\'ho have come recently into the other life. More subtle senses succeed, ail of whieh must be referreel to the sensation of touch, in arder for them to be senses.

2930. There are very many such in the world as rejeet spiritual things, because they do not apprehend them with the senses ...

3320. Every sense of the body has its own reslliration, nay, its own place of respiration. Ex.

3471. As the whole brain is the Organic of the internai senses ...

3567. Spirits have every sense except taste ... 3860. On the general natural sense. Gen. art. (See

A·4325· 4329.) 3900. Such become Spirits almost devoid of sense.

3963. Spirits have been with me ... also as to sense ...

4235. (Solifidians) are those who constitute the more general sense of Spirits ...

4834. On the Hell of those who take away ail sense of civil, moral, and Christian truth and good.

E. 14. There are two senses given ta man which serve as meaus for receiving the things through which the Rational is formed, and also the things through which man is reformed, namely, the sense of sight, aud the sense of hearing: the l'est of the senses are for other uses ...

3494• Noue of the senses of man, namely, sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, are in mau ; but they are excited and produced from influx. In mau there are only the organic forms which are the recipients, which havc no sense until something adapted 1I0ws in from without. It is the like with the internai sensories, which are of thought and affection, and which receive influx from the spiritual world, as \Vith the external sensories, which receive influx from the natnral world.

D. Wis. vii. 42• "\Vithout correspondence and re· ciprocation, there is no life in sense ...

x. 4. The will acts the fi l'st part in producing motions, and the understanding in presenting senses ...

__e. That the lungs aet the first part in the senses, and the hcart the second ... (for) ail the organs of the senses correspond to such things as are of the under­standing. Enum.

Sense, A bstract. See ABSTRACT SENSE.

Sense, CelestiaI. See CELESTIAL SENSE.

Sense, Common. See COMMON SENSE.

Sense, ExternaI. See EXTERNAL SENSE.

Sense, HistoricaI. See HrSTORICAL SENSE.

Sense, Inmost. See INMOST SENSE.

Sense, InternaI. See INTERNAL SENSE.

Sense of Letter. Sel1S7tS lt'terae. sèiiSé, Litera;[ ~;U;literaÎis. Lëttër. Litera. Sense, Ultimate. Sensus ultÙllltS. See under BEAR-UrS'ltS, INTERXAL SENSE, LInTER,

NATURAL SENSE, and WORD. ltÂ\ 1. This no mortal apprehends from the letter, or ~~ of the letter .. , 4. 37. 64.

3. Without sneh Iife, thc Word as to the letter is dead. Ex... The 'Vord as to the letter alone is like a body without a soul. 755".

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[A.] 49". 'Clond'=the literaI sense of the Word. (See under CLOUD.)

64. The Angels knolV nothing Ilot ail of what is of the letter, not even the proximate rneaning of a single word; still less the names of the eountries, cities, rivers, and persons . .. 1143.

65. Certain Spirits when taken up to Heaven under­stood nothing of the letter. 3474.

735. So ail who remain in the sense of the letter, where it speaks according to the apprehension of man, conseqnently according to the fallaeies of his senses: if they, in simplicity, have faith in these things, beeause it is the Word of the Lord ... they easily suffer them· selves to be instructed. Examp. 1408e.

11432. If the man of the nIost Ancient Church were alive now, he \l'ould not inhere a whit in the sense of the letter, but \l'OU Id be as if he did not sec it ... 15402.

1405. Unless the sense of the letter as it were vauishes . .. 1408.

14082. The corporeal things of the Word are those whieh are of the sense of the letter; and, when the mind is kept in them, the internai things are not seen . . . But still the thiugs of the sense of th'e letter are like those which are with man in his body ... which are general vessels ...

__e. Ail the books of the Ancients had a sense different from that in the letter.

1807". He who is in Divine things never looks Ilot the Word from the letter; but looks Ilot the letter anù the litera.I sense as re resentative ... of celeSIiaIllnd spiritual things. To bim the Il era sense is 011 y as a.n instr.ume!!ial means for thinking about them. Such was the Lord's sight.

18322. The things of the iiteral sense ... are r~­sentatives ... and thus are not in themselves trutbs; so e are even falsities, which, however, can serve as vessels . . . Examp.

1866. Thus the letter vanishes, anù its historical sense. .. 1874". 20152.

1871. In the literai sense there is searcelyanything which does not appear devoid of order; but, when it is being read ... it becomes more beautiful as it ascends ...

1872.... The bhwk dress (represented) the Word in the ~

1888. That the sense of the letter is l'epresentative of Divine arcana; and that it is the receptacle and thus the reposit~ of the Lord's celestial and spiritual things. (Illustrated by two examps.)

1984e. Still, the sense of the letter rePJ:es~nths,

and presents appearances of truth, in which man ean be, while not in the light of truth.

2069. The sense of the letter merely furnishes objects 2275· 2953·

21625• That they saw only ... the literai sense. Sig.

2225. What is necessary for salvation is the same in the letter . .• 2609.

22423. Thus the sense of the letter is according to

appearances ... Therefore the Wonl as to the letter is for man. . . s

23II. The literai sense is like a body ...

2335e. The qnality of the ,Vord in the letter.

23952• The sense of the letter not hurtful to the simple.

__e. When these things are read ... the sense of the letter is rejected ...

25313. In the literai sense are truths which are accommodated to the apprehension of those in extemal worship ...

2760,Pref. Everyone confirms his dogma from the literaI sense ...

27602. 'C\.Q.t;lllld in a vesture dyed in blood'=the Word in the letter.

33732• Why interior truths rarely appear in the sense of the letter of the üId Testament.

3382". The sense of the letter, in its ascent towards Heaveu, is put oll' .

3393. The Lonl is the Word ... as to the literai sense also.

3424. 'A \~ of living weters'=the "\-Vonl aSJo the literai seWle-;ïïï which is the internaI sense. Ex. 3427.

3425•. The things in the literai sense appear opposed to those in the interna.! sense; yet are never oppo.;cd, but cOITe pond eompletely. Sig. and Examps.

343~moval to ... lower or more exterior truths slwh as are extant in the literai sense. Sig.

3432. 'He dng another ~l, and for that they sh'ove not' = the literai sense ... which they do not deny. --. The literai sense ... is threefold: historien1,)

prophetical, and doctrinal, aIl of which ean bCi'j)pre. hëmIedby those ine-xternals.

3436. The doctrine of faith, here signified by 'Beer· sheba,' is the literaI sense itself . .. 3445.

__2. He who is in simple good, and believes the Word in simplicity according to its literai sense, is gifted with the faculty of perceiving trnths when instructed in the other life; anèr""intile mean time the feIV truths with him are vivified by charity and inno., cence, and then the falsities are not hurtfnl . . . )

3438. 'Jehovah appeared nuto him in thet night' ... By this obscurity is signified the literaI sense ... ~

__2. How the case is \Vith the literaI sense. (::Jee INTERNAL SENSE, he,·e.)

3439. That the Divine was also in the literai sense. Sig. and Ex.

3440. 1'hat there is an increase of gooet and tl'uth with man fl'om the literai sense also, is because in this sense also each and ail things are Divine; and becanse in the literai sense the internai sense is open in many places. Examps.

3451. The agreement of the literaI sense with the internai sense, consequently thIlot of the doetrinals of faith ... from the literai sense, therewith. Tl'. --. For the Word as to the literaI sense is the )1

Lord's Kingdom itself on earth. 'J __2. As the Church has its doctrinals from the

literai sense, it cannot but be various ...

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_3. For the literaI 'sense, in many places, appears opposed ta itself: tbe reason is that in this sense there are appearances of truth accommodated ta those who ... are also in worldly and corporealloves.

3452. That doctrinals of faith, regarded in themselves, are not ta be denied, sa far as they are from the literaI sense. Sig. and Ex... For they are accepted by the Lord, provided that he who is in them is in the life of charity •..

3454°. That the Ward is Divine, .. is denied by those who acknowledge no other holiness in it than what appears in the letter ...

3464. 'Wc have found waters'= .... the interior truths which are in ail the doctrinals drawn from the literaI sense; for the literaI sense i~~ a weil in whiçh is water.

__2. When man is in the doctrinals which are from the literaI sense, and at the same time in a life accord· ing to them, he has correspondence in himself; for the Angels with him are in intel'Ïor truths, while he is in exterior, and thus he has communication with Heaven through the doctrinals, but according ta the goo<] of his life. Examp. 3469, Tl'.

3472. That each and ail things in the literaI sense are representative of the spiritual~elestialthings of the Lord's Kingdom. ­

3476. The literaI sense unites man with the First[ Heaven ...

3477. The arcana of wisdom manifest ta man from the literaI sense, are relatively (extremely) few.

36053. As it sa appeal's, it is sa said in the sense of the letter.

37122. Divine doctrine is also the Word in the literaI sense ... As the literaI sense con tains in it the internaI sense, and this the supreme -s1ïnSe ... the doctrine thercfrom is Divine. As Jacob represents the Divine Natural, he also l'epresents the Ward as ta the literaI sense... The Natural of the Word is circumstanced no otherwise than its literaI sense ...

3735. Ta the Angels such things as are in the sense of the letter are only abjects for thinking about heavenly and Divine things; for su~~h

a~ u1timate of oraef. Examp. __2. ArnaïlWhOreads the Ward holily, is by

such correspondences closely conjoined with Heaven · .. although he be in thought solelyabout the things · .. which are in the sense of the letter. Ex.

3765. The Ward is here called 'a weil' because it treats of the Natural, which ... apprehends the Word only at the literaI sense.

3769. 'A great stone was upon the well's mouth' ... The Ward is said to be closed, when understood only as ta the sense of the letter, and when everything therein is taken for doctrine. Ex.

38192. In the literaI sense there are general truths. Ex.

3909. The things extant in the sense of the letter · .. are relatively harsh ... but become ml1d and gentle as they are elevated ... The literaI sense is such because

it has been accornmodated ta the apprehension of the natl1l'al man . .. 4002.

41042. Thus, although the literaI sense is natura], still in every single thing it contains spiritual things, 42 79. ----­

42792. Tho lowest or literaI sense is for man while he lives in the world.

4358. Interrogations in the sense of the letter are not interrogations in the supreme sense. Ex.

4373". Thus the literaI sense by ascent becomes spiritual, ~even ta the~ ere it is Divine. ~

43912. 'Thick darkness under His feet' ... The literaI sense is such. Ill. ~065.

4480. The Spiritual of the Word does not appear in the letter; for in the letter there is what is \\'orldly . .. But, when read by man, wbat lS worldly therein ) becomes Spiritual ... with the Angels ...

4768. The subject treated of (in the history of Joseph's coat) ... is the confirmation of falsity by appearances which are presented by reasonings from the sense of the letter. 4769, 4783.

4783. For the sense of the letter has generals, which are like ves~els, which can be infilled with truths, and also \Vith falsitie~, anel thus be explicated in favolU [of either] ; and, as they are generals, they are relatively obscure, and have no light except from the internaI sense. (Continued under INTERNAL SENSE.) Examps.

4861. 'Gate'=external truths, ",hich are of the sense of the letter, and which afford an entrance.

50086. Ail Divine truths can be confirmed from the literaI sense. Ex.

52476. 'Hairiness,' and 'a leathern girdlc'=the literaI sense ... as to truths, and as to goods; for the literai sense is the natural sense. 562012. 5687.

562012. 'Wild honey'=the delight which is in the li teral sense as ta good.

__13. Fol' Divine truth ... in the literaI sense is delightful, because it suffers itself ta be explicated in cach one's favour.

5945. Doctl'inals of scientifics are eloctrinals from the literaI sense; and are especially serviceable to those who are first being inaugurateel into the interior truths of the Church.

6071. The scientifics of the Church at this day are the things which are of the literaI sense; and unle~s

truths from the internaI sense are insinuated into thcse scientifics, the min,l can be ieel away into every heresy ... Examps.

6221". In its elescent, the Ward ... at last clothed itself with a form adapted ta the apprehension of man, which is the literaI sense.

62222. A man can confirm any dogma from the literaI sense. The rcason is that the things of the literaI sense are ~..Lyessels, which receive tru~hs, and the qualityof these vessels does not appear untI1 they have received truths ...

6619°. With those in whom the thought has been closed, nothing more appears therein than the sense of the letter, or that nearest the words. 6620.

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[A.] 6774. 'A well'=the WOI'd as ta the literai sense .. Moses dwelt 'near a weil' ... heeanse the literai

sense is the tirst with those being regenerated ... And those i.!!--the trnths of simple gooù care only for the li teral sense.

6775. Those are said ta he in simple good who ... in simplicity helie\'e the Ward as ta its literaI sense, everyouc according ta his own apprehension ...

67892. Unless the internai of the Ward inllows with those who ... remain in the literai sense, therc is not effected the eonjunction of the truth from the Ward with good. It infiows when the man holds the IVord to he holy; and he does this when he is in good.

6832. The scientific truth of the Ohurch is nothing hut the Worù in the sense of the letter . .. 90252.

6839. (Thus) the things whieh are in the sense of the letter are such as accommodate themselves ta the apprehension of the simple, who do not believe nnless la thing] is as it appears. 6997". 87052.

7089. By doctrine (which Aaron represents) is meant the Word sueh as it is in its literaI sense ...

78402. The men of the External Chureh are those who have qnalified their good hy exterior trnths, snch as are those of the literaI sense.

84432. Truth Divine in the sixth degree is such as is \Vith man, aecommodated to his perception; thus is the sense of the letter.

85814. The great errors into which those fall who strictly adhere ta the sense of the letter. Exarup. 102768.

87812• The Ward in the lctter, espeeially the pro­phetie Ward, is nothing else (than the density of a cloud) relatively ta its internai sense.

88913. The Angels do not see the sense of the Ward aeeordiug ta the letter, but according to the things therein ...

8916. Truth Divine, or the Word ... in the external form, is its external or literai sense. That this sense is called 'a cloud,' and 'smoke.' Refs.

89202• Truth Divine in the world, is snch as is its sense in the Ietter .

89432• The literai Bense does not vanish, or die, through the internai scnse ... but lives through it.

90252. The literai sense is fol' the simple; for those being initiated into the interior truths of faith; and for those who do not apprehcnd interior thiugs; for it is aceording to the appearancc hefore the sensuons man, thus is according to the apprehension. Hence it is that dissirnilar and eontradictory things often appear there. Examp. --. Henee it is that the doctrines of the OhUl'ch in

very many things reeede from the literai sense. __3. Those who learn and teach the literai sense

alone, without doctrine, ... cornprehend only tbose things which are of the external man ... Thc reason is that the Word in the external or literaI sense is naturaI.

9026. The agreement of the truths of faith with those which are of the literaI sense; and that the things whieh are of the literaI sense cannat be extinguished; for they are truths in the uItimate of arder. Tl'.

The things of the literaI sense can indeed be weakened, bnt cannot he extinguished : and, aCter they have been weakened, they ean be scparated, and then be restored by means of explication. Sig.

9°31. For the things in the literaI sense, if looked at interiorly, ail agree together. Sig. and Ex.

__2. So with every tmth of the litera.I sense; fol', in natural light ... this appears as said in the Word; for the literaI sense is natural, and for the sensuons man; but when the same is presented in the light of Rea\-en, it appears accorùiug ta the internai sense.

9°32. Spiritual truth ... weakened by ... that of the literai sense. T,'. It is commonly believed that the truth of doctrine ... is the same as the truth of the literaI sense. Exam p.

9033. It now tJ'eats of the weakening of ... the literai sense by spiritual truth. Examp.

__Co This is at!.ributed to the Lord in the sense of the letter, hecause i t appears so; and therefore, being an apparent truth, it is not ta be denied, that is, extinguished; for thus faith in the Word wonld he extinguished ... Refs.

9°34'. 'A man-servant' = the trnth of the litera.I sense ... For this is of service ta spiritual truth. Ex.

__4. How the trnths of the literaI sense serve for the formation of spiri tuai twths; in gencral, for the formation of faith and charity. Ex.

9035. For the truths of the literaI sense, stored up in man's natural mernory, forlU there as it \Vere a field -campu?it-for the mental view of the internai man ... and from this field the internai man chooses such things as agree with the goad in him.

9036. The punishment of spiritual death. Sig. Fol' the trnth of the literaI sense is extinguished, and with it, faith in the Ward.

9093". Truths in t.he external form are such as those of the Ward in the li teral sense.

91276. 'IVater'=external truth Divine, snch as is the W ord in the letter.

91634. Truths ultirnate in order arc those of the sense of the letter, in which are the tJ'uths of the internai sense, and upon which these l'est, like columns on their pedestals.

9166". 'His foot-stool'=truth Divine below Heaw'lI sueh as is the Worù in the literaI sense; for on this rests truth Divine in Heaven ...

9348. The literaI sense perversely applied then chiefly prevails.

9349. The literaI sense is therehy not annihilated, but rather confirmed. Ex.

9360. The (people) of our earth relate to the external and corporeal seuse, in whieh the interior things of life cease ... It is the like with truth Divine in the letter, which is calied the Ward; for which reason it was given in this Earth ...

93723. 'A reed'=truth in the ultimate, such as is the Ward in the Ietter.

93822. Those thus iIIuminatcd ... make for them­selves doctrine from the Word, to which they apply the

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sense of the letter ... Most of these make for them- those who are in the external sense, and at the samc sel ves no doctrine, bnt remain in the sense of the letter, time in the internai ... and in another way with those which they apply ta favour falsities . . . who are in the external sense separated from the

939112. 'Ground ta powder' = falsity thenee eonfirmed interna!. from the sense of the letter. 'A brook from Mouut 9422. 'To sit beneath the mount'=to remain in the Sinai' = truth Divine, thus the 'Vord in the letter; for external sense. Ex. this deseenùs thenee. 9424. The doctrine of truth from the external sense

--'". Ta pervert the seientifics of truth and good alone. Sig. and Ex. __4.

from the sense of the letter in favour of their eupidities, __9. A semblanee of truth induced from thé external and still ta .worship them a~ holy. Sig. sense alone. Sig. --. Tlungs from prOp1"ll1l11 ... are faIse, although 9425. That falsities were ta he removed (by) doctrine

outwardly they appear as truths, beeause taken from l' from the external sense. Si". and Ex. the sense of the letter. "

6 'Tl b J fI' . d' 1 9427°. The external (or literaI sense) eovering the 939 .. le ~O'? he. ~O\-enant =the ':'01' III t le internaI, and also Heaven. Sig.

letter, wlth whlCh IS eonJomed the 'Yord III Heaven. Ex. 9433e. 'B~'=~timates, sueh as are

those of the Ward in its literaI sense; henee it is said 9406. 'Under His feet'=the ultimate sense, whieh that it 'shall Dot be remo\'ed to eternity.'

is the sense of the letter itself. Ex. 94686--. The nltimate of truth Divine ... is sueh as . See SCAELET.

is the sense of the letter, whieh is natnral, beeause for 9642". Those in falsities which they confirm from the the natural man. The sense of the letter contains in sense of the letter wrongly explieated. Sig. itself the internaI sense. . . 9809°. Falsity in whieh is good ... is sueh as there

__4. 'We have found Him in the fields of the is \Vith ail who remain in the sense of the letter, and wood '=in the natural or literaI sense. in doctrine thence, but still have as the end the good

___6. Whentruth Divine ... istranslueentwith man oflife.

frol:l the very seDse of the letter, .this.sense is des,cribecl 98286. The 'garments' (of Elijah and John)=the by the feet of the resplendence of poltshed brass. Word in the external sense. whieh is natura!. L.158•

__7. 'A stone out of the rock erushing the iron, . clay, brass, silver, and gold'=that the Church as to 1 9917". The 'fringe'= Divinc truths in llitimates, sllch the reception of truth from the Ward perishes ",hen as are those of the Word in the sense of the letter; falsity and evil are confirmed through the sense of the which are said to 'fil! the temple,' ",hen they fill the letter. Church.

__Co In the most ancient times, nothing ",as seen 99957 • 'To grind meal'=to select such things from in the sense of the letter except what is heavenly, the sense of the letter as will serve ta confirm evils ... ahuost abstractedly fmlU the letter. 10028". When man is being p1ll'ified, he first of all

9407. See SAPPHIRE. leams such truths as can be apprehended by the sensuous --. (Thus) this sense, which is the ultimate one man, such as are in the sense of the letter ...

in ~E~h_ contains in itsell the sp1l'ltual and celestia! __e. Thus ail interior truths are together, in the sense, and,jll.lUOstly, the Dn'Ille ltself . . . truths of the seDse of the letter ...

. 3~rolll this cOlllpal:ison (with 11l~lllan speech) 10126c. Hence it is that the Ward in ultimates, that an. lde~ m.ay he had coneernlllg th.e Wo.rd lU the lettel:; is, in the sense of the letter, is representative ... and fOl tllls IS attended ta 11l Hea\en, .Iust as a lllan s thus serves as a basis and fonndation to the Heavens. thought is wont ta he as pl'esented in speech ... but _ ~ . the difl'erence is that the sense of the letter when 10217'· The truth of the Church fals1fied by the being read by l~an, is neither heard nor appe~ceived literaI sense of the Word applied to favour evils. Sig. in Heaven, but only the internaI sense. . . 102768. (Thus) the literaI sense is holy from its

. tl t lItcl intel'llal sense; but, separated from it, is not holy.9409. TIlOse III le ex erna sense a one, separa e from the internaI. Sig. and Ex. 9421 . 10300:. 'T.he waters of Jericho (healed)'=the trnths

__4. Hence the external sense, without doctrine of the \\'ord 111 the sense of the letter. Ex. . . . is bent wherever one pleases . . . 1°324. The Word in the letter cannat be apprehended

94 10• \Vith those in the external sense separated except by. m:ans of doctrine made from the Ward b.y from the internai there is no truth in its power one who IS ll!ustrated; for the sense of the letter lS Sig. and Ex. ' . accommodated to the apprehension even of simple men.

--. There is no communication \\'ith the Angels if 1°400. Doubt and denial that there is any Divine the Ward is apprehencled as ta the letter only, and not trnth except what is extant in the sense of the letter. at the sarne time according ta somethillg doctrinal. .. Sig. and Ex. which is the internaI of the Ward. 10402. The extraction of such things from the sense

9414. Instruction from the Lord for those in the of the letter as favour external loves. Sig. and Ex. external sense. Sig. and Ex. 10406. 10478.

9419. The external or literaI sense of the Word is 104312. Thusthe Ward as to the letter is accordingto presented representatively in Heaven, in one waywith the appearance with man.

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[A.] 10441. For the sense of the letter ... is for the 1 27. That the sense of the letter of the Word is the most simple, and for infants. . . "basisl containll-llt, and support of its spiritual and

10453. The two 'tables' here=the external of the celestial sense. Chapter. 1'.210. Word ... The external of the Word is the sense of 33. (Thus) the Word without the sense of the letter the letter. This sense is signified by 'tlle tables,' would be like a palace without a fo~n, etc. because it is like a table ... on which the internaI 35. The propbets thus represented the violence done sense has been written. ta the sense of the lett"r by the Jows. Ill.

__3. That thc two tables were broken ... involves ( the arcanum tbat the sense of the letter would have 36. The Word in its ultimate or na'tural sense, whith

been ditferent, if the Ward had been written \Vith is the sense of the letter, is signified by the wall of the holy Jeru alem ... by its foundations . :-:- andalSObyanother people. Ex. 10461. 10603,Sig. and Ex. ~ the gates ... 43,Gen.art..

10547•. ~ial an~iiual thinCfs intlow into natural and worldly ones, 8JIlL.cease in them, and fmm 37· That Divine truth in the sense of the letter is and constItute them .- .. ThfSïSt1ïe case with the in its fnlness, holiness, and power. Chapter. W.221, external sense of the Ward, which is called the sense Ex. ~ of the letter. --. For tlle two interior senses ... are togeth!;' in

the natmal sense, which is the sense of the letter.105823. lu such obscurity and falsity of faith are 38e. 65·

those who believe the \Vard sa e y as ta 1.h1 1 e sense a f 39. Thus the Word is the Ward itself in its sense ofthe letter, without doctrine made thence _ .. Sig.

the letter; for in this, within, it is snirit and life. Ex.105842•

fi The spi~se, and the celestial sense, are not the 10607· The external of the 'Nord, etc., are her, Ward ,,:rEhaut tb..EL.!laturaL~~_m0V11lch is the sense of

represented by Moses, and Mount Horeb, etc. 10609. the letter; for they are like. spirit and life without a 10614. 10689. 10691. body ... (B:)25ge. The natural sense of the Ward, which is 1.0 40. The tmths of the sense of the letter, in part, are

us the sense of the letter, is not in Heaven ... not naked truths, out are appearances of truth, amI are

30 7•. (Thus) the sense of the letter serves as a basis as similitudes and comparisons, taken from such things alliifoundation (for Heaven). 305· -=- as are in nature, thus such as are accommodated and

311•. But the sense of the letter unless genuine adapted ta the apprehension of the simple and of doctdne enlightens, distracts the mind . . . infants: but, as they are corres~lCes, the)" are

N. 262. (Refs. to passages on the sense of the receptacles ... of genUlne trut~ . -­letter, or external sense of the Ward.) W. H.13. 41. As the Ward in the sense of the letter is such,

J. I. For the Bense of the letter is natural, and in it follows that those who are in Divine truths ... while the uJti.m,a.tlL.Qf Divi!l~er ... and therefore he who reading the '.Yard in illustration [rom the Lord, scc comprehends the Ward solely aceording ta the Bense of Divine truths in naturallight; for the light of Heavcll, the letter may be carried away into various opinions. .. in which is the spiritual sense, inflows into the nlltural

Iight in which is the Bense of the letter, and iIIuminatcs 282

• \Vithout such a letter, the \Vord could not have the Intelleetual of the man, alHI causes him ta see ... heen • . . Divine trnths, where they are extant, and wherc they

e. J. 62e. The Lord's 'heel' which is 'the seed of are latent ... J~voman,' the Divine ultimates, Hence the Ward in its ultimate bosom, fro,m it,) t 1 is proeeeding in 42. which is the Ward in the sense of the letter. natural sense, in which are the two interiOl' senses, js ~ 12• The Ward in the letter 1.0 which violence like a ruby and a cHamond. Ex. has n done. Sig. 43. It is the Bense of the letter from which is doctrine,

7". It is the literal sense which is illustrated. Refs. and, through doctrine, the Chnrch. 8. The things which have bccome of faith l'rom thc 44. Thal. the truths and goods of the sense of the

literaI Bense are not ta be extinguished, except after letter are meant by the Drim and Thulllmim. Gen.art. a full view. Ref. 1 __'. The ephod represented Divine truth in its

102• The sense of the letter is transmuted into the' ultimate; thus the Word in the sense of the letter. spiritual sense in a moment with the Angels, without __4. Answers l'rom Heaven are given (solely from their hearing or knowledge of what is in the sense of the ultimate sense of the Word), because in this Bense the letter. Refs. is the proceeding Divine in its fulness. Sig. 48.,Sig.

cS) 5. The spiritual sense is not that which shines 45. That the truths of the sense of the letter arc fOi1rt from the sense of the letter when anyone examines meant by the precious stones in the garden of EdH'. and explicates the Word ta eonfirm any dogma. .. Gen.art. This sense is the literaI sense. 46. That the sense of the letter is signified by the

JO•• The' wall,' and its 'foundations' =doctrine from curtains and veils ofthe tabernacle. Gen.art. the literaI sense. 47. That the external things of the Temple reprc­

264• The sense of the letter, in which is the spiritual sented the external things of the Ward, which are it~

sense, seen represented by a pUl'se fllll of sil ver, lying sense of the letter. Ex. open, but guarded. --.----- 49. Combat against evils and falsities must be waged

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through truths from the sense of the letter. Through the truths with man also the Lord has the power of saving him; for man is reformed and J:egenerated_~~lgh

truth.s from the sense of the letter ... __a. The angels of bath Kingdoms, and men, are

[ogether in (the sense of the letter).

50. That the doctrine of the Church is ta be drawn from the sense of the letter, and ta be confirmeù thereby. Chapter. 53. 54. T.225· --. It follows that the Lord is thc most present

in the sense of the letter ; and that He teaches and illustratcs man from it.

SI. The 'Word in the sense of the letter consists of mere corresponuences ... Therefore in the sense of the letter, in some places, there are no naked truths, but clothed ones, which are caIJcd appcarances of truth; and there are man)' things accol11lllodated ta the

( apprehension of the simple ... and there are saille things which al'pear like contradictions ... As, there­fore the Ward in the sense of the letter is such, it is evident that it cannat be understood without doctrine. Examps.

53. For the Lord is present with Illan in the sense of theletter, a.Jl~se,and illustrates and teaohes him the tl'llths of thc Chureh. And the Lord neyer operates anything except in fulness; and the Worel in ale sentie of the ll!tter is i~fulness. Henee it is that eloctrine is ta be drawn l'rom the sense of the letter.

55. The doctrine of genuine trllth can be fully drawn from thc literaI sense; for the Word in this sense is like a man clothed, whose face and hauds arc naked: ail things which pertain to man's life, and thus ta his salvation, are naked there; the rest are clothed; and, in many places where they arc clothed, they show through, like a face throngh thin silk.

56". It is hetter, therefore, for man ta stuely the 'Word in the sense of the letter: from it alone is doctrine given.

57· Thatthegenuinetruth, which must he of doctrine, does not appear in the sense of the letter ta any others than those who are in illustration from thc Lorel. Gen.art.

58. The Lord infiows thl:Qugh these senses, anel through their: Iight, inta the natural sense, and into the light of this with man: hcnce man acknowle.elges

[ truth from interiorpeï:Ception, and afterwards sees it in his thought ...

62. That throu h the sense of the letter there is con~nction with the Lor ,au consocla IOn Wlt the Ange s. Chapter.

63. These senses are evolveel from the natural sense, which is the sense of the letter, when fi true man is in it. The evolution (ta the Angels) is instantaueous, and sa, consequeutly, is the consociation.

-64. 'When 1 have l'ead the Ward in its sense of the letter, communication has beeu effected with the Heavens, now with this Society of thern, uow with that; and those things which 1 understood aecording to the natura! sense, the spi~lal An~els u.nderstooel accorel~ng) ta the spiritual sense, and the celestlnl A,Egels accordmg to the celestial sense; and this in an instan t ... 96.

--". Sorne Spirits abuse this communication, by reciting some sayings from the sense of the letter ...

91. 'l'hat heresies can he taken up from the sense of the letter; hut ta confirm thern is hurtful. Chaptel'.

96. As each and ail things of the sense of the letter co~e with Heaven, anel onen i~ ... when a man applies this sense ta ~onfirm (evII) loves, the internaI of the Ward becomes false; and therefore, when its cx~ernal, which is the sense of the letter ... cam­municates with Heaven, Heaven is closed ...

96b. The man who is in truths, not from doctrine, but from the sense of the letter alone, is at the circumference (of the garden) . . .

97. The sense of the letter is a guarel for the genuiue truths which are hidden within, in this way: that this sense can be turned hither and thither, and he explicated accoreling ta the apprche!lsion, and yet the internalnot ) he injured thereby; for It eloes no harm for the sense of the letter ta be understood diiI'erently hy one than by anothcr; hl1t this does harm-if the Divine tnlths which lie hiddcn within are pervcrted . .. (See T.26o).

__3. The Lord does not speak \vith man except in what is full, and the Ward in the sense of the lettu is )) Diiine truth in fulngss. .

__4. ''1'0 ride,' and 'sit upon the cheruhs'=upoll the ultimate sense of the Ward.

P. 2313. The thinl kind of profanation is committed by those who apply the sense of the letter ta confirm evilloves and false principles. Ex. 23310•

313". Let him who wants ta do sa remain in the sense of the letter. .. R. 41". C~ 24. That the Lorel will reHal Himself in the sense o'tihe letter, and will open its spiritual sense, at the)) enel of the Church. Sig. and Ex.

47. T~ord's 'hairs'=the Divine good ... andJ\ Divine truth ... in the u1timates of the Worel, whlCh are contained in its sense of the letter.

--". 'Bald'=the \\Tord without the sense of the letter. 'Bears' = this sense separated from its internai sense.

__6. They who have despised the sense of the letter appear bald there; but tlley wh2~v~ loved the sense III of the letter appear with becoming hair.

148. 'He shall rule them with an i~d'=through

truths from the sense of the letter ...

200·. 'The he<Yinning of the handiwol'k of Gael' = the) Worel such as if is in ~he .sens? of the .l~tter; for this sense is the campIex of Its IIlterlOr sanctJtJes.

231~. For ail the precious stones in Heaven derive their origin from the ultimatesof the Ward ... (which) are the truths and goods of its sense of the letter. T. 209"· 217. E.717'·

238. A new Heaven from Christians who were in general truths from the sense of the letter. Sig. and Ex.

246. The Divine wisdom in its natural sense from its s il'Ïtual and celestial sense. Sig. and Ex.

256. 'The Book wl'Ïtten on the hack side'=the ex­terior sense which is Natural.

367. 'Palms'=Diviuc truth in ultimates, which is the Divine trri'fifof thesense of the tetter: ­

Sense of Letter 700 Sense of Latter

[.R.]5 13. Conjunctionwith the Lord in Heaven through the Divine truth of thc 'Nord in its sense of the letter.

Sig. 7540. '.Diade~ls,' or preeious stones, =the truths of the

( 1\ ord; III special, the truths of the sense of the letter; hero, falsified and profaned. Ex. E·7 17.

.544. That (the doctrine of the New Chureh) will con­- vmce through truths l'rom the sense of the letter. ..

Sig. and Ex. 828,Sig.

573. 'His l'cet as of a bear' = full of fallacies l'rom the sense of the letter, read, but not understood. Ex. 574.

6422. That, when He cornes to Jlldgment, He will appcar in the sense of the letter. Sig. and Ex.

672. Those truths and goods by whiclt the evils and falsities of the Church are disclosed, taken l'rom the sense of the letter. Sig. and Ex. --. Naked goods and truths cannot inflow; for

these are not rocoived ; but clothod truths, such as are in the sense of the letter. Moreover the Lord always operates l'rom inmosts through ultimates, that is, in what is full. Sig.

736. 'Here is thc mind which has wisdom' = that this ,interpretation is in the natural sense; hut is for those who are in the spiritual sense l'rom the Lord... The reason the interpretation was macle by the Angel in the natural sense ... is that the natural sense is the hasis,

I(containant, and support, of its spiritual and celestial sense; and therefore êTSewhere also in the ·Word, inter­pretations have been given in the natnral sense. E. 1061.

825. Divine truth in the ultimate sense, or thc Ward in the letter, ta whieh violence has been offered. Sig. and Ex.

859. 'Gog and Magog' ... =those solely in the sense of the letter, and thence in worship.

898. 'Having a wall great and high'=the Word in the sense of the letter, l'rom which is the doctrine of the New Church. Ex.

__0. For the doctrine of the New Church is l'rom the sense of the letter only.

902. 'The wall of the city had twelve foundations' = that the Ward in the sense of the letter contains ail things of the doctrine of the New Church. Ex-:-­

911. That every Divine truth in the sense of the ({ letter. with the men of the New Chureh, is translncent

from the Divine truth in the spiritual~se. Sig. andEx. ­

__0. The Word in the sense of the letter is such. that the more a man is iIlustrated by the influx of the light of Heaven, the more he sees trnths l'rom theil' connection and derivative forro; and, the more he thn5 s~es them, the more interiorly is his Rational opened.

915. All things of this doctrine l'rom the sense of the letter in their order with those who approach the Lord immediately. and live aceording to His precepts ... Sig. and Ex.

959. (How.it is that the natural sense contains the er senses within it. See 'NORD. here.) -=­

M'! 24. (The preachel' in that Heaven showed that)~t le wisdom whieh is the Lord in the Ward lies stored ~~ the sense of the letter, and is not opened ~t

l' to those who are in truths of doctrine, and at the same time in goods of life.

d. 207. WI1ile these (Divine trnths of the spiritual 1 sense) are in man, the sense of the letter cannot be

perverted. For the sense of the letter can bo bent 1 hither and thither; but if it is bont to what is l'aIse, its ~nternal holi~es:~ p.erishes. and its e~tel'11al holiness ~vith It; whereas If Jt IS bent to what IS truc, that holmess remains.

212°. Thus in its sense of the letter, which is natural. there is an interior sense ...

,238. TholVordintheletteridikeacabinetcontaining precions stones arranged in order ...

2412. (Thus) the Word in Heaven, as to the literai sense. is similar to our Word. and at the same time corresponds to it ...

258. When a luan in falsities applies the sense of the letter to thern, then the falsities are in it, and the truths are dissipated, which is effecteù on the way l'rom the man ta Heaven. (Shawn by comparisons).

287. The decalogue. in the sense of the letter, con­tains the !reneral precepts of doctrine and of life ...

~

Gen.art. 291. 5082. The sworù vibrating in his hand=that the

sense of the letter can he turned hither or thither, 'provided it is donc in application ta sorne Truth.

704. In the natural sense, the Lord's 'flesh and blood' = the passion of the cross.<S -- ­

D. 1335. (On those who make light of the sense of~ the letter.)

1624. (Etreet of sticking solely in the literai sense.) '1736. 2391. 4759a. 5lSoo. 5606.

1736. Thosewhoremainintheliteralsenseeonstitute the filthy outermost skin ...

1737. Sorne remain in the literaI sense, but admit an interior sense (when it snits them). Des.

(Thus) the sense of the letter .is mnch more penetrative when the mind does not inhere in that sense ... as with critics.

2356. On the literaI sense of the Word.

2056.

2 694. That the literaI sense is to be treated cautionsly. Sig. 2695.

4 12 1. The things contained in the literaI sense are

4122most general vessels. Ex. . 4343. Thus perish all things which are of the eense

of the letter ... 4413.0ntheliteralsenseoftheWord,andhypoerites.

Paul.

4760. He twisted the literaI sense ... having a mind to destroy it, and the internai sense by the literaI senee.

5370. 'The dragon' = those who want no doctrine, but d lIt Donly the Wor in t le e ter. cs. 5422.

5951. See ENGLAND, here.

609628• They who are in the senee of the letter alone, and study it mCl'e!y for the sake of honour, are in adultcry as of a father wit1J his daughter.in.law.

Sense of Letter 701 Sense of Letter

fR' 64. The Lord's garments which they divided = the ~d in the letter . . .

71". Therefore when man thinks spiritually from natural things which are in the sense of the letter, he is~ with Reaven, and in no ot~y,

985. For the sense of the letter consists solely of ex.) temal thillgs which are in nature ... for otherwise the Word would not be communicative with the Angels. 71". 1752• z6o~. 3295.

1752• The natura! sense of the Ward, which is its sense of the letter, is together with (the things proper ta nature), and the sense WliïCllis together with them serves as a blLSis for the sense which is devoid of them; for ail thiilgS in nature are ultimates of Divine l'der, and the Divine does not snbsist in the middle, but f10ws down ta its llltimates, and so s~s. Renee it is that the ·Word is such in the letter ; and, ullless it were such, it \Vould not serve as a basis for the wisdom of the Angels, who are spiritual. 2602•

237G, 'Ta plaster with uutemperec1 mortar'=falsity assumed as a principle, and made ta appear as tl'llth. by the applicatioD of t'he sense of the letter.

294. In the sense of the letter are mentioned only mediates which ill\'Qlve em!s.

31615. The perversion of the ,Yard as ta its sense of the letter. Sig.

3256. The sense of the letter consists of secondaries. . .

35531. This trnth is such as is contained in the sense of the letter: they who remain in this alone . . .

3566. That ail things of doctrine are ta be confirmed by the sense of the letter. Ex... 'Nhen a man thinks any truth, and confirms it by the sense of the letter, it is perceivcd in Reaven;' but not if he does not confirm it; for the sense of the letter is the basis, in which the

spiritual idelLS, which the Angels have, ~e, almost as words are the basis into which the senseOIthought falls and. js co~.e.d.Joanother. ___ ­

37.52• Therefore they who remain in the sense of the

remain truths, they must be applied to confirm the goods of life, and the principles of truc religion. If they are drawn away from this application as the end, they are truths no longer, because thcre is not any perception of truth in them. Ex.

53717

• The 'old rags,' etc. with whieh they drew Jeremiah up, = the ,vindication and restitution of the truth of doctrine by sneh goods and truths of the sense of the letter as have not been perceived and understood, and therefore ha\'e been neglected and rejected.

5406. The things of the sense of the letter are signified by' brass, tin, iron, and lead,' because by these are signified the goods and truths of the natural man, for which man are those things of the Word which are con­taincd in its sense of the letter.

5453. It is provided by the Lord that no harm be done ta anything in the seDse of the letter, by denying it to be true and living, that is, Divine, although one confirms his own falsities by the sense of the letter; for so long as he does not deny the Divine in the Word, he reads or hears it, and is thereby in sorne conjnnction with Reaven. Sig.

5792• For when ~ man thinks solely from fallacies, he

thinks sole!)' from those things which are extant at first sigh t in the sense of the letter; and not from anyinterior literaI sense. Des.

593·' A mighty Angel descending from Reaven' = the Lord as to the ,Vord; here, as ta its ultimate sense which is called the sense of tlie letter ... because the

ord is called 'm'" 'from this sense; for all the) st~l and a the power of Divine truth come forth) an consist in its ultimate, consequently, in the sense of the letter. Ex. __"

_4. Rence ail the doctrine of the Chnrch ought ta be formed and confirl1led from the literaI sense.

597. By Divine truth in ultimates is meant the Ward in the sense of11le1ëtfer ; ancf,'as this sense is natural, and the Natural is the llltimate of Divine arder, it therefore supports Divine truth spmtual an~al,

letter, and make doctrine for themsclves thence, and 1 exactly as pil1ars èîô!ï h2!J.se, and as Ûle fecrâO the live according ta it, are in ultimate goods and truths. These ... are in Reaven, but in the ultimate one; for the goods and truths whichttrey have dmwn from the sense of the letter ... have in them the interior goods and truths which are of the spiritual sense. Examps.

384. For the sense of the letter is such that they who are in good see truths there, and they who are in evil sec falsities there ; for the sense of the letter is aceording ta the apprellensionof infants, etc., and is thel'efore according ta the appearance; but still in that sense

body -; -[or-;\\;i1hout the natural sense of thc Word,the interior things would dbsolve ... and therefore each and all things whièTï!ïi'Cin the natural seuse ... are rerpetnal correspondellCes ...

__.2. That the Word in the .ultimate or natural))

sense lS full of the gooù of love. SIg. 600. 'Ris l'ight foot on the sea, and his left on the

land' = the sense of the letter which is natural, i~h )1 are all things of Reaven and the Church. Ex.

614. That the Ward in the sens-;' of the letter was truth~ li~ hidden which are seen by no others than those . delightful, but in the interna! S9nse ... undelightful. who are III good. . . 1 Sig. 619,Ex. __3, Ex.

449 °. ~n' (in the blessing by l'ioses)=the 6' 7'7• 'To lift up the hee] against Rim'=to pervert'Ward in ils ultimate sense, which is natural. the sense of the letter even to the dcnial of the Lord,

4~3'2. 'Ta gather together the waters of the lower and the falsification of ail trnth. (( ~

sh 001' - ta colIect many things Irom the sense of the 6245. For the sense of the letter, however falsified, letter, and from the natural l11an. has power.

5032. For the sense of the letter is for the greatest 627G. By ultimate tl'Uth, is meant sensuous truth'J part f~e a1)pearances in the Spiritual World. such as is the trnth in the sense oIfu61etrei'-Witl111i'Ose

5202. For the truths of the sense of the letter to 1 \~O are merely sensuous. Ex.

Sense of Letter 702 Sense of Letter

[E. 627]6. Divine truth in the ultimate degree is such as is the Divine truth in the sense of the letter for infants and the m~_!!.t simp.k-)yho are sensuous. It is this Divine truth which is sigllified ~.' And as explorations with aIl are effected b.y this ultimate Divine truth . " the measurings and weighings \Vere donc with reeds. Ill.

65032. 'The stump of the l'Oots left in the earth'=the Word Ilndcrstood as to the letter only . . .

7 [73, For the truths of the sense of the letter shine,

wherever they are; both \Vith the evil and with the good. Ex. (See STONE, here.)

720. For the sense of the letter is sllch that if it is not interiorly comprehended, it can be explicated in different ways; and, if this sense is not looked at from gennine truths, it is believed according to the letter, and is falsified.

72718. That they will receive the truths of the literaI sense withjoy. Sig.

73013. The sense of the letter is calIed 'a desert'{ when understood only naturally . . . .

739fi. It does no harm for these things to be believed according to the historical 1etter ...

" .'" _ .. . . '. 739 . TJ:~e---.t.ru.t.lLi<~e~,

whic~JlS, .is the s_ense of the letter. ~llJS IS ( perverted and fal§lfied br the sensuous man, and lS thus

8883• Therefore the sense of the letter, with a man who falsifies it, is perceived in Heaveu in two ways: as ge,nuine truth, and at the same time as this destroyed ...

9143• There are within the Church those who explicate the sense of the letter even to the destruction of Divine truth in Heaven; and there are those who do not ex. plicate it to this extent. The latter do not devastate the CllUrch \Vith thcmselves ... The sense of the letter, nn~erstood in simplicity, does no harm to any spiritual truth \VI,ich is in Heaven ; but the sense of the letter explicated accOl'ding to falsities of doctrine, and according to evils of loves, does harm. For the sense of the letter is Divine truth natural ... ànd, when Divine truth natural is explicated even to the destruction of Divine trnth spiritual, it can no longer make a one with it by correspondence with it; but the falsity according to which the Divine truth natural i, explicated destroys the Divine trnth spiritual; and this is the falsification of the Word, and the devastation of the Church by the falsifica tions.

9162. For the truth in the sense of the letter is like a face shining through a veil ...

__3. (Thus) a seusnons man ... may think and belie,'e these things according to the sense .of the letter ... but an aelult man who wants to be WIse, must not explicate them ... according to the sense of the letter, and confirm them by reasonings ...

'bruised'~1 7t6~~'e sense of the letter is guarùed lest the ~ 931. 'The seo.' = truths in general ... or general Lord b~ a I)~'oached except by appearaAleeS of t;'uth . .. truths, (whieh are) such as are the 'truths il1; the sense

'pl '\. S'a 1088" of the letter; and the sense of the letter IS natural,by those 111 eVI '.. 1". . d . 1 . 1 1 f "t 1 6 T'" " an e,'erythll1g natura IS a, genera ~e 0 Spll"1 ua

. 778 ..For the:' or.d III u.ltnnates IS hke a man elotheù Iithings ... for the Natm'al has been fOl'med from the III a garment, \\ ho IS naked as to the fae~ and hands Spiritual as an effect from its effecting cause; and, as a

, anel therefore ... the doctnne of gemune good and thousand things which are spiritual, effect and form one truth can be seen from the sense of the letter by those Sueh

who are illustrated b'y the Lord, a~d can he confir~ed also is the or III t e sense of the letter re atively to by those who are not Il\ustrated. The teasoI! the "ord the Word in the spiritual sense ... is such in the sense of the letter is that it may be a hasis. for the spiritual sense ... And, as the Divine 934· For those who live the life of charity. , . remain truths in the sens~ of the letter are mostlyappearances 1 permanent~y in the tru~hs of the se.nse of the. Ietter, and of truth, a.nd the SImple cannot be ele\'ated aboye them,

( it is not sin .and blasphemy for the .Word ~o ~e inter· preted accorellllg to appearances, provlded pnnclples are not formeel from them, and confirrned to the destruction of the Di\'ine truth in its genuine sense. Examp.

7979• If the sense of the letter is falsified even to the destruction (of the Divine trnth of the spiritual sense) Heaven is closed. Ex.

815. 'The beast rising out of the earth' = confirmations from the sense of the letter in favour of faith ~FlI.l':u.ed

.fum.!.Ji[e, and the consequent falsifications of the trnth of the Chllrch. Ex. 819. 821. 826.

832'. The reason the litCl'al sense communicates \Vith Heayen, is that each and ail things therein Cl11li!!in the spiritual sense within them; anel the spiritual sense is perceived in the Heavens, when the natural sense ... is understood by man... Soriïe have recited \Vords from t e sense.o tlle1etter, and l have perceived that there was at once effected with them.a communication with some Society of Heaven; for the spiritual sense had penetrated to that Society which was in the words recited from the sense of the letter . , .

do not penert and falslfy them. Sig. and Ex.

950. But Divine truth on carth is such as is the 'Von! in the sense of the letter, in \l'hich are few aennine truths, sueh as are in Heaven; but there are ~ppear. ances of trnth. The naturalman receives no other.

10333. The IVord as to its sense of the letter is sneh that it can be drawn to confirm every heresy ...

,~ (A series of important staternents concerning the-séIlse of the letter).

1079'. The Word in the sense of the letter appears very simple; yet in it is stored up the wisdom of the three Heavens. Ex.

1084". As from the sense of the letter are drawn and called forth purer senses. (Shown hy comparisons.)

10852• As there are t).u:ee senses in the IVQrd ... and as the natural sense, wllië1lTiï the sense of the letter, is the c.Ql!.tl!iMnt of the two (others) ; it follows that the sense oTtlië1etter is the basis of them. And as the Angels of the three Heavens receive their wisdom ... through the IVorel, and .ilicir Word. makeJ!. one with our Word by corresponelences, it follows that the sense

1

Sense, Proximate' 703 Sense, Relative 9

of the letter of our Ward is the basis, ~ and ~_ort of the wisdom of the Angels. FOrthe Reavens~st nl'0n the humaD.-J.:l!&e as a l!ouse does on its founda· t.ùlJl.. Rence the-'visdoHl of the Angels of Reaven in like manner su~s upon the knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom of men l'rom the sense of the let ter ; for,

{;( through the sense of the letter, there is cffected cam·

e

l [ nmllieation and COlljll!).Çtion with the Reavens. -­__3. Rence it is that, of the Divine Providellce, the

Word as to the sense of the letter has not been mutil· atcd l'rom its. first revelation, not even as to a word or lette!1 in the Original Text ...

C

. 1086Gsali higher things store themselves in lowest ones in simultaneoJls ~, it fo11ows that in the ulti· mates of the-wOra, which are of its sense of the letter, are. all things of Divine truth aud Divine good even l'rom their primes. And as ail things of Divine kUnl and Divine good are together in their ultimate, \l'hich is the sense of the letter;ïflshldent that the power of Divine truth is thcre, na», the Lord's omnipotence in saving man. or, when the Lord operates,1'Iëëroes not operateTrom primes through mediates, into ultimates; but l'rom J2rimes through nlti~tes, and thus into m~teS:--:-:-Rep. ------- .

__6. The p~' of the Ward in the sense of the letter is thEUlJl~ven... and it is the power of fighting against e\-i!s and falsities ... The man who is in genu{]le truths l'rom the sêuse of the letter, can cast down and disperse in a mom~n the whole\ diabolical crew, ancraIt their ar~y a mere look, and byan effort of will. In a ward, in 1lié Spirrtllal \Vorld, nothing can resist genuille trnths confirmed l'rom the sense of the letter.

10872. As, in the u-lt~se of the Word, which is caUed the sense of the letter, Jl!'U1Lth~t:.e!:.ior

t~s whieh are in the Wordsof the three &a\~s,

together and these are encom assed and enclosed in sliëhthings as come forth in t le . ure 01 am world ; [thereroreJ l'rom both the latter and the former is the sense of the letter of our Worc!. (Th us) Divine truth in the sense of the letter of onr Word is in its fnlness. Ex... As the Word in ultimates is such it ~\'s th~~l nntil ~l its nl.!imate, .thl1~1 nntil it is in the senseDnlle1ettel·. If notîiîthis, the \Vord woulel be like a t~.l~J~~r . .. .t~le L~eI~operaçes c~e.pt in ~ess. Ex.

10882

• Divinëti:uth .~ot holy until it is in its ultimate, which is the Word in the sense of the letter.EX:-­

__4. Natural truths, which are those of the sense of the letter, are not the very truths of Rea l'cn, but are appearances of them; and apl'earances of trnth 'W-' comp;!ss, enclose, and .1lontilin the trnths of Heavell, anù cause then110 be in ~etion and arder, an,l ta co­here... ­

J 147. The rational draw l'rom the sense of the letter snch things as are of doctrine; the sensllolls remain in the letter only. AA~o, On the sense of the letter. Gen.art. ~. l . 19. 20.

Sense, Proximate. See l'ROXIMATE

SENSE.

Sense, Relative. See RELATIVE SENSE.

Sense, Representative. See REPRE­

SENTATIVE SENSE.

Sense, Spiritual. See SPIRITUAL SENSE.

Sense, Supreme. See SUPREME SENSE.

Sense, Universal. See UNIVERSAL SENSE.

Sensible. Sensibilis.� Sensibility. Sensibilitas.�

See under SEKMTIOK. A. 1504e. This sphere ... is presented sensible.

1505. 1514. 9466.

46872. From the sensible things in the external man.

D. 2252. (Spirits) are more prompt and sensible.

43482. Sensibility, occnrs.

Sensitive. Smsitivus. A. 321. .A Spirit has lllllCh more excellent sensitive

facllities. 322.

2621~. The Sensitive, or COl'poreal, is man's cristere.

3528. Everything sensitive relates to the sense of touch... Fol' the Sensitive is nothing else than an external Perceptive; and the Perceptive is nothing else than an intel'11al Sensitive. Ex.

4249°. Re believes l'rom this Sensitive, and· not l'rom dor;trine ...

4622". Ali that Sensitive which appears in the body is properly of its spirit ...

__4. The Sensitive of llIan immediately al'ter death. Ex.

4623. The sensitive lire of Spirits is twofolù: real, and not real. Ex.

_._2. They would have no sensitive life.

7691. Thatall the ~ensitive of truth wonld be obliter· ated. Sig. and Ex.

9050"' Renee man has ... a sensitive perception of good.

W.406. The love in i.ts sensitive life: and in its activc life. Ex. 407.

P Ail tl e Perceptive and Sensitive is dcrived l' . (24i t' ) 1 rom re a lOn .

Sensory. Sensorius. A. 4324. The cOITespondence with mau's external

sensories : namel)', with the sensory of sight, etc.

4407. The eye communicates with the understanding more imlllédiately than the l'est of the sensory organs ... Rence sight penetrates to the internai sensory which is in the brain bya shorter and more inter'ior way. Ex.

5°17. The ear ... reccives speech, and hears it to the cam mon sensory ...

5552. Correspond to those Societies ... whieh have the greatest life and happiness, such as are those to which eorrespond the cxternal and the internai sensories.

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naturallove in which are the Angels of the First Heaven. This love is what is properly called charity towards the neighbour. (Continued under FIRST HEAVEX.)

Spiritual Sens Semus spiritualis. See INTEû;:u:-EN8E, throughout.

~ 2276". The spiritual sense mentioneù. 2686:1. ~·e. 2937.

231 I. AU the words have a spiritual sense. 41373.

3482. With the Ancîents, because they had inter­course with Spirits and Augels ... there was a spiritual Bense in every (ward of their speech).

51475. The Angels with the man nnderstand these things according to the spiritual sense.

563ge. Hence the internai sense of the Wonl is eaUed the spiritual sense (and not the celestial sense).

5648'. In ta this spiritual sense is the natural sense at once transmuted.

6212:l . The chariot in whieh was a man = the spiritual .sense which was in the prophetical things.

6884. The sense of the letter, at the first threshold of Heaven, is turned into the spiritual sense.

69963. The literai sense is significative of the Things in the spiritual sense, while this sense is not perceptible to man, except only in sa far as it cau be presented and set forth by means of sueh things as are of the worlLl and of nature; and still less the angelic sense.

8420. In the very word 'walk' is the signification of the spiritual sense.

8943. For within ail the several things of the Ward .there is a spiritual sense which treats of the Lord's Kingdom; and within this sense there is what is -Divine; for the Ward in its inmost sense treats of the Lord alone.

9093e. And truths in the internai forlll are such as are those of the Ward in the spiritual sense.

92803. He is not aware that the W ord is Divine l'rom the spiritual sense, which does not appear in the letter; but still is in the letter; and that this sense is pre­sented in Heaven ",hile a man is reading the Ward JlOlily; and that in this sense it treats of the Lord and His Kingdom.

94°7". If he were tolel that in the sense of the letter there is a spiritual sense, whieh is of truth, and in this a celestial sense which is of good; and that these senses shine forth l'rom the literai sense, hc would be as­tounded ...

9841". For the Ward in its sph-itual sense treats only .of such things as belong to the Lorll and the neighbour ... Hence the Ward is alive.

10217. For the spiritual sense is the in terior sense of wards, and is very frequently within the words of languages, especially of the oriental ones.

1022710• Without the spixitual sense the Ward cannat he called holy, and in very many places cannat even he apprehended. S.16, Examps.

w~ 114'. If man were in the knowledge of conesponLl. enc:S, he would understand the Ward as ta its spiritual

.sense ...

' ~ 7. 'l'his doctrine is l'rom Heaven, because it is frolU the spiritual sense of the 'Vord ; and the spiritual sense of the Ward is the same as the doctrine which is in Heaven.

258. That in the Word there is a spiritual sense, which is called the internai sense. (Refs. ta passages.)

«j~ 1. They who have not known the spiritual sense of the 'Word, have not understood that ...

282, By these words is meant that the Lord, when it is the end of the Chmch, will open the spiritual sense of the 'Yard, and thus Divine truth such as it is in itsclf; thus that this is the sign that the Last J udgment is at hand.

40. It treats everywhere in the spiritual sense of the "IVord of the Spiritual World, that is, of the state of the Church bath in the Heavens and on the earth. Hence is the Ward spiritual and Divine ...

57 2• There was then given them the Ward which is in Heaven, in which there is not the natural but the spirit. ual sense.

73e. As spiritual freedom has been restored ta man, the spiritual sense of the Ward has now been discloserl, and thereby interiOl' Divine truths have been revealed ; for in his previous srote Illan would Dot have nnderstaod these j and he who would have understood them \Vould have profaned them.

@". fi' 1. The Ward as ta its spiritual sense, or interna sense, is described in the account of the 'white horse' (Rev.xix. 11-16).

(i) 166• That the. Jews. ~ad dispersed ~Il the truths of t~ord, but not!ts splntual sense. Sig. The Lord's 'vesture' = this of the 'Vord.

e5:1 5• That in the Ward there is a spiritual sense, hi'rl':'erto unknown. Gen.art. T.193. --. What the spiritual sense is. The spiritual

sense is not that sense which shines forth l'rom the sense of the letter when anyone scrutinizes and explicates the Ward ta confirm some dogma of the Church. This sense is the literai sense of the Ward. But the spiritual sense does not appear in the sensc of the letter: it is within it, as the soul is in the body, as thought is in the eyes, and affection in the face, which act as a one, as do cause and effect. This sense especially causes the "IVonl ta be spiritual, not only fol' men, but also for the Angcls; and thereforc the Ward, through this sense, eommunicates with the Heavens.

9. That the spiritual sense is in each and ail things of the Ward. Examps.

__e. That the spiritual sense is ta be opened at the end of the Chm'ch, is signified not only by the things saiel of the 'white horse' and him that sat on him, but also hy 'the great sul'pel' .. .'

134• It is ta be knowll that in the spiritual sense ail things cohere in a eontinuous connection ... and thera­fore if a syllable is taken away, the connection is broken ..•

1 18. That it is l'rom the spiritual sense that the Ward is Divinely inspired, and is holy in ever)' ward. Ex. T.200. --. As the holiness of the 'Word does not appear

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from the letter alone ... it has now pleased the Lord to which is the sense of the letter, and illuminates the revea.l the spiritnal sense. . . Intellectual of ·the man ... and causes him to see and

20. That the spiritnal sense of the Word has been acknowledge Divine truths, where they stand forth, and hitherto unknown. Ex. T.20r. where they lie hidden. These Divine trnths, together

.. 1 f h W ct 1 with the light of Hea,·en, inflow with some; sometimes 25· The reason the splrItua sense 0 t <: . or las even when they are nnaware of it.

been Ilot this day disclosed by the Lord, IS that the noctrine of genuine truth has now been revealed; and 42. See CELESTIAL SEXSE, here. 63. 64. 80, and ail this doctrine accords with the spiritual sense of the 1 the l'est of the extracts. W ord, and no othel" This sense is also signified by 56. It may be believed that the doctrine of gennine the 'appearing of the Lord in the clouds of heaven truth can be procured throngh the spiritual sense of with glory and power' (Matt.xxi\'.30,3/), in which the Word, which is givcn throngh the knowledge of chapter it trp.ats of the consummation of the age. .. correspondences; but doctrine is not procured thereby, The opening of the ·Word as to its spiritual sense has but is only iIlnstrated and eOlTohorated; for no one also been promised in the Apocalypse; and it is there cornes into the spiritual sense of the Word throngh meant by 'the white horse,' and by 'the great. snpper,' correspondences unless he is previonsly in gennine truths to which a11 are invited. from doctrine ...

__2. That the spiritual sense will not be acknow- __2. Besidcs, the spiritual sense is not given to ledged for a long time; and that this will be solely anyone except by the Lord alone, and it is guarded by owing to those who are in falsities of doctrine, especially Him, as He guards Heaven ; for Heaven is in it. concerning the Lord, and who therefore do not admit 58. The reason the ·Word shines and is translucent trutbs, is mcant by 'the beast,' and by 'the kings of with these is that in eaeh thin<t of the Word there is a the earth,' who would 'make war with him thIlot sat on spiritual ~nd eelestial sense' al~l these senses are in the the white horse.' By 'the beast' are meant the Papists; li<tht of Heaven . and theref~re the Lord throt1"h these and by 'the kings of the earth,' the Reformed who are seonses. and thr;u<Yh the liaht of them i~f1ows lnto the in falsities of ùoetrine. natur~1 sense ... ° ° ,

26. That the. spiritual sense of the "'.ord will. n?t 63. The Angels of the Spiritual Kingdom are in the henceforth be glVen to anyonc except to hlm who IS III spiritual sense. .. 64. 67. genuine truths from the Lord. Ex. T.20S. '" , .

__. The reason is that no one can see the spiritual 80. The tlllngs 111 the SPlrI!,u,al sense relate chtefly to sense except from the Lord alone, and nnless he is in the Church ... and ta the DIVIne truth ... genuine truths from Him ; for the spiritual sense of the /12. Therefore it has now pleased the Lore! to reveul Word treats of the Lord alone and of His Kingdom ; and the spiritual sense of the Wore!; ane! to manifest that this sense is that in which are His Angels in Heaven; the \Yord, in this sense, and, from it, in the natural for it is His Divine tmth there. A man can violate sense, treats of the Lord and the Church, and of these this if he is in the knowledge of correspondences, and alone. through it \Va.nts to e~plor~ the spiritual sense of the @ 264. (Why thc spiritual sense has hecn hitherto \Vord from hts Own 1I1telhgence; for, from somc cor- t~nown.) Gen.art. respondences known ta hilll, he can pervert its sense, __2. That if the sphitual sense hat! been revealed and draw it into the confirmation of what is false, and previously, the Church would have profaned it, and this would be to do violence to Divine truth, and also thereby the holiness itself of the \Yord. Ex. ta Heaven ; and therefore if anyone wants ta open this __'. That neither were genuille truths, in whieh is sense from himself, and not from the Lore!, Heaven is the spiritual sense of the 'Nord, rCI.ealed by the Lord closcd, and then the man either sees nothing, or is until after the Last Judgment ... and the New Chnreh spiritually insane. Ex, 56. \Vas about to be instaurated. Ex.

__2. Lest, therefore, anyone shonld enter into the __". (Thus) the spiritual sense of the Wonl was to spiritual sense of the Word, or should pel·vert the be revealed for the New Church ... genuine truth which is of this sense, guards have bcen __6. (Thus) it is of the Divine Providence that the placed by the Lord, which are meant by 'the cherubs.' spiritual sense has bcen hidden from the world until (Represented to me by purses of silver Iying open, but the present age, and meanwhile has been reserved in gllarded.) Heaven with the Angels, who derive their wisdom from

39. The spiritual sense is 'the spirit' of the Word; it. This sense was known among the Ancients, and and the celestial sense is its 'life.' was carefully studied. But becanse their descendants --. The spiritual sense and the celestial sense are turned the correspondences ... into idolatry, and magic,

not the \Yord without the natural sense, which is the it was closed; first \Vith the sons of Israel, and after­sense of the letter; for they are then like spirit and life wards with Christians ... and it is no\\' opencd for the without a body; and like a palace without a founda- Lord's Ncw Chnreh.

tion. ~ 1. 'Yhat the spiritual sense is, has been hitherto 40. The naked truths themselves ... are in the 1~I~own. It is in cvery thing of the Word; anù,

spiritual sense of the Word ; and the naked goods are withou! it, the Word in many places call1lot he under­in its celestial sense. stood. This sense does not appear in the sense of the

412. For the light of Heaven, iu whieh is the spirit- letter; for it is in it as the soul is in the body. Ex. ual sense of the 'Yard, inflows into the naturallight in __2. But as the Spiritual does not appear in the

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sense of the letter ... the spiritual sense has been hitherto unknown. Nol' coule! it be made known until genlline trnths hae! been revealee! by the Lord; for in th ese is this sense.

[R]. 24. Tha.t the Lord woule! open the spiritual sense at the end of the Chnrch. Sig. anrl Ex. --. 'Thc glory,' in which they should see Him, =

the Word in the spiritual sense.

26, 'Blood and watcr' (Johu xix. 14)= Divine truth spiritual and natmal; thus the ,yore! in the spiritual sense andnatuml seuse,

96-. As the spiritual sense is ahstractee! l'rom persons.

2312. Al!l'recious stones in Heaven derive their origin fr()m the ultima tcs of the ,Yore! ; ane! their transparency l'rom the spiritual sense of the ultimates.

246. The Dil'ine wisdom in the Word in the natmal sense l'rom its spil"itual sense and celestial seuse. Sig. and Ex.

256. (The' Book writteu within' = the spil"itual sense.)

414. Divine truth in the spiritual sense of the ,Vord is like the light of the sun in the daytime; and Divine truth ln the natural sense is like the light of the moon and stars at night. Moreover, the spiritual sense in­flows iuto the natmal sense as the sun with its light inflows into the moon, and presents the light of thc sun Illediately. Sa also does the spiritual sense enlighten men-even those who rlo not know anything about this sense-whilc theyarc reading the Ward in the natural sense; a spiritual man, as the light of the sun does his eye; and a natnral man, as the light l'rom the moon and stars does his cye. EYeryone is enlightened accord­ing ta the spiritual affection of truth and good, and at the same time according to the genuine truths, throngh which he has opcned his Rational.

658. Bnt' anger,' etc. are uot attributed to Gad in the spiritual sense; fol' in this sense there is not appcarancc and correspondence; but Truth in its light.

7683. They wanted to know whcther thcre is this spiritual sense in these \\'ordg (about Peter anù the keys): whereupon the ,Yord which is in Heaven was given thern., in whieh there is not the natural sense, but the spiritual sense ... and, when thcy read it, they sa\\" that 'Peter' was not mentioned thcre; but instead 'Tt'ulhf"oin good ",hich is l'rom thc Lord.'

803, Pref. Thc opening of the'Word as to the spiritual sense for the New Church (is treatee! ofin Rev.xix. 11-16).

8042. This (obstruction of the Lord's influx by the Bab,ylonians and Reformed in the World of Spirits) is likewise thc cause, that not until al'ter the Last Judg­ment was the spiritual sense of thc Wordrevealed ... 825. E·1094·

820. '1 sa", heaven opened, and, behold, a white horse'=the spiritual sense of the ,Vard revealed by thc Lord, and, through this, the interior understanding of the Word disclosed, which is the Advent of the Lord. --. That this is the advent of the Lord, is because

through this sense it manifestly appears that the Lord is the Word; and that the Word treats of Him alone ; and that He is the God of Heaven and earth; and that the Ncw Chl1reh cornes fol'th l'rom Him alonc.

824. That the (Iuaiity of the Word in its spiritual sense and celestial sense no one sees except the Lord, and he ta ",hom Re reveals it. Sig. and Ex.

897.. Raving the glory of Gad ... '= that in the New Chureh will be the ,Yord understood, beeause translucent l'rom its spiritual sense. --. With these, the Word as it were shines when

read: it shines from the Lord by means of the spil"itual sense; because the Lord is the ,Vord ; and t!le spiritual sense is in the light of Heaven w!Jich proceeds l'rom the Lord as a Sun. .. 91 I.

932.• A pnre river of the water of life ... ' = the Apocalypse nowopen and cxplicated as ta its spiritual sense, wherein Divine truths in abundance have becn revealed by the Lorel for those who will be in His New Church. Ex.

@ 532. The Lord has revealed arcaua ... I. That in the Ward, in each and al! things of it, there is a spiritual sense corresponding to the natural sense, and that through this sense there is conjunction of the men of the Church with the Lord, and consociation with the Angels; and that the holiness of the "rord resides in it.Œ852, Rence there is in thc Ward a spiritual sense in which Divine trnth is in light; and a natnral sense in which Divine truth is in shade.

192. Every man who is unaware that there is a certain spiritüal sense in the Ward, as the soul is in the body, cannot judge about the ,Yord except l'rom the sense of the letter; whcn yet this is like a case which contains precious things, which are ita spiritual sense. Ex.

193. The Word in its bosom is spiritnal, beeanse it has descended l'rom Jehovah the Lord, and has passed through the angelic Heavens; and the Divine-which in itself is ineffable and imperceptible-was in the descent adapted ta the perception of the Angels, and fiually to that of men. Renee is the spiritual sense, which is within the natural sense, as the soul is in man, the thought of the undcrstanding in speech, and the affection of thc will in action. (Other more external comparîsons used.)

206. The reason the knowledge of correspondences­through which is given the spiritual sense of the Worel -has not been disclosed sinee th08e Ancient timcs, is that the Christians in the primitive Chnrch "'ere very simple men ... Anel after thcir times, darkness spread over 0.11 the Christian world ... and as ail things of the Ward have been applied to eonfirm this erroneons faith, the spiritual sense conld not be disclosed; for, if it had been, they would have applied this sense also ta that faith, and thereby would have profaned the holiness itself of the "rord, and thus would have completely closed Heaven against themselves, and would have rCIllovecl the Lord l'rom the Chnrch.

207. Thc reason thc knowledge of correspondenees­through which is given the spiritual sense of the Ward -has been revealed at this elay, is that now the Divine truths of the Church are coming forth into the light, and of these thc spiritual sense of the Wonl consists ; and, while these are in a man, the sense of thc letter cannot be pen'ertcd.

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209. Wonderful (phenomena stcn in the Spiritual 1

"Vorlt!) frol11 the spiritnal sense. Dcs. and Ex. 244. But the thinga iu the spiritual sense lie hidden,

and do not appear except to those who love truths be­cause they are truths, anù do goods because they are goods. Béfore these is manifested the treasure which ia covered and guarded by the literai sense; and these are the things which essentially make the Church.

258. For the spiritual sense is openel! \l'hile passing l'rom man to Heaven ; and ail thillgs of the spiritual sense are genuine truths; aud therefore \l'hen a man is in falsities, and applies the seuse of the letter to them, (it causes) truths to be dissipated.

294· (The spiritualsense ofthc eommandmentsgiven;� as distinguished l'rom the celestial sense of them.) 298.� 302, etc.�

667. That withollt lCnowlcdge of the sphitualsense of the '.Vonl, no one can kllow ,,"hat the two Sacraments involve ami effect. Ex. 669,

668. The spiritual sense has been revealed at this day, because thc Christian Church, such as it is in itself, is now first commencing, .. 700.

669· The spiritual sense has been disclosed at this day for the New Chnrch, for thc sake of its use in the worship of the Lord.

698. Therefore he who kno\\'s corrcspondences can kno\V the spiritual sense.

780. In order that the Lord llIay be constantly present,� He has disclosed to me the spiritual sense of His Word,� in which Divine truth is in its light, and in t!lis light� He is continually present. For His presence in the� Word is solely through the spiritual sense. Through� the light of this, He passes into the shade in which is� the sense of the letter . . .�

@23. The spiritual sense mentioned. 27. 289,Ex.� SOS Ex.� ,.D.1 5964. Many Societies in Heaven have the 'Word

w~ten as to many things according to the spiritual sense; where, instead of the names of persans, 'kingdoms, and places, there are words which only their wi el' ones nnderstand. Ex. ~ 16. If (our Word) were written according to the spIritual sense, it would not be nnderstood by the Angels; for thcy perceive ail things of the Word accord. ing to correspondences.

II72• The spiritual sense itself does not intlo\\' l'rom Heaven with man; but it intlows into his affection; and, throngh this, into the Knowledges \Vhich are with him ; and thus enkindles his clesire; aud then,' in pro. portion as he l'an see l'rom the literai sense, in the same proportion he receives the genuine truths of the Church.

195" Ail things in the Worel are Divine through their having in them a spiritua.l sense, and through this sense communic!lting with Heaven . , •

8283 . ''1'0 walk upon the wings of the wind'=the spiritual sense which is in the literaI.

294· Ends are what are meant in the spiritual sense.� 3763. Why the spiritual sense has not been disclosed�

to Christians. Ex.� VOL. v.�

Henceforth no one will he admitted into the spiritual sense, unless he is in genuine fruths l'rom good; and no one is in (these) unless at heart he acknowleclges the Lord alone as the God of Heaven and earth. --. Why the spiritual sense is no\\' published with

safety. Ex. 543". The spiritual sense of the Book of Job. Ex.

697. That which the Angels think, is the spiritual sense of the Word; for the spiritual sense is for the Angels, and also for men who are spiritual.

653'0. The abstract sense is the genuinespiritual seme. 768". 1077. .

7783. 'The Holy Spirit' = ... the Word such as it is in the spiritual sense; for this is the Divinc truth in Heaven.

__4. In the spiritual sense are genuine goods and genuine trnths. , •

7908. Truths elevated into the spiritual mind are not in a natural form, hut in a spiritual onc. Truths in a spiritual form are such as are in the spiritual sense of the '.Vord , ..

8310. The spiritual Angcls know nothing of the sense of the letter, but its spiritual sense, in which sense is the Word which is read by everyoue there ...

9 16'. Truth in the spiritual sense as compared \Vith that in the letter.

9502. The reasons why the spiritual sense has no\\' been clisclosed are, I. That the Churches have falsified ail the sense of the letter ... whereby Heavcn has been closed; and, in order that Heaven may be opened, it has pleased the Lord to reveal the spiritual sense, in which sense is Divine truth such as there is in Heaven . .. 2. That the falsities which have inundated the

Church ... cannot be dispelled except through gennine truth opened in the Word •.. 3. That the Ne'" Chmch is conJ'oined \Vith Heaven through the Divine truths of the Word which are in its spiritual sense.

De Verbo S. On the spiritual sense of the Word. Gen.ar. 7,Gen.art.

__e. The doctrine of the Church is not to be con· firmed by the purely spiritual sense ; for by this sense thcre is no conjunction with Heaven and through Hcaven with the Lord; bnt by the sense of the letter; for the Divine intlux of the Lord throngh the Word is

l'rom primes throl1gh ultilllates. 72• The spiritual or internai sense is nothing else than

the sense of the letter evolved according to correspond. ences ...

__7. For to interpret the Word as to its spiritual sense l'rom falsities of doctrine, closes Hea,'en ... Bnt t.o interpret the spiritual sense l'rom truths of doctrinl' opens Heaven ; because this sense is that in which are the Ano-els; and therefore a man through tbis sense thinks together with the Angels; and thus conjoins them \Vith himself in his intellectual mind. Whereas

if fi. man is in falsities of doctrine, anq. wants to explore the spiritual sense l'rom some knowledge of corrcspond. ences he falsifies it. It is otherwise ifa man is previously in� ge~uine truths: tbis sense accords with truths, and

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appears from truths, becallse this sense is in the light of Heaven ... The spiritual sense of the '.Yord is' meant by the Lord's 'vestnre,' which was without seam, and which the soldiers were not a110wed to divide .••

[De Verbo]82. As there is a marriage in the 'Vord, .there are in it a spiritual sense, and a celestial sense; a spiritual sense for those in the Lord's Spiritual KingdOlll, who con­stitute al! the lower Heavens ; and a cel'estial sense for those in the Lord's Celestial Kingdom, who constitllte : ail the higher Heavens. The Angels of the Spiritual Kingdom are in the truths of the Word; and the Angels of the Celestial Kingdom are in its goods ; and therefore ~vhen a man is reading the Word holily, tlie spiritual Angel s, accorùing to the correspondences, perceive. the trnths therein, and the celestial Angels the goods; but the celestial Angels do' not perceive the goods therein imnlediately from the man, but mediately through the spiritual Angels. Ex. . --. The marriage of the Lord with the Church also

comes forth in the Heavens through' thè Word; for, in the spiritual sense, the Word treats of the Churc'h, and in the celestial sense of the Lord; and therefore the spiritual Angels apply all things to the Church, and the celestial Angels to the Lord ...

18". The spiritual sense without the natural sense accompanying it cloes not communicate with Heaven. The reason is that the Lord inflows l'rom primes througli ultimates; thus l'rom Himself into the natural sense of the W ord, and thellce calls l'orth or evolves its spiritual and cclestial sense; and thns illustrating them He teaches andleads the Angels; and therefore the Lord is ca11eel 'the First and the Last.' .

19. On the qualityof the natural sense without the spiritual and celestial sense; and conversely. --~. See NATuRAL SENRE, here.

202. In the spiritual sense without the sense of the letter there is no power; but in the sense of the letter in which is the spiritual sense; anel therefore when Spirits bring anything forth l'rom the sense of the letter, it efl'ccts manifest communication with Heaven ; but not if they bring anything forth 1'1'0111 the spiritual sense without the sense of the letter. "

21, No one cau see the spiritual sense except l'rom the doctrine of genuine truth. From this the spiritual sense can be seen when there is some knowledge of correspondences. He who is in the doctrinc of what is l'aIse cannot see anything of the spiritual sense: he draws the corresponc\ences which he secs to the falsities of his doctl'Îne ; and therefore he is able still l'urther to falsify the Word. And thereforc the truly spiritual sense of the Word is l'rom the Lord alone. This is why no one in the natural or the Spiritual World is 'allowed to investigate the spiritual sensé of the Word Crom the sense ofïts letter unloss he is entirely iu the doctrine of Divine trnth, and in illustration l'rom the Lord. And therefore the spiritual sense can he 'seen from the doctrine of Divine truth. confirmec1 l'rom the sense' of the letter; but doctrine cari never bé first seen l'rom the spiritual sense. He thinks l'alsities who says to himsel{, 1 know many correspondences, t am able to Imo,," the tl'lle doctrine of the Diviue Word; the spiritual sense will teach it me. This cannot bedorie; Rut let him say

to himself, 1 know the doctrine of Divine truth; 1 now can see the spiritual sense, provideJ 1 know correspond· enees; but even he must be in iIInstration from the Lord, because the spiritual sense is the Divine truth itse!f in its light, and is meant by 'glory.' (C~ li. In place of miracles there has been revealed the lritual sense of the Word ...

Inv. vii. Thc New Chlll'ch has not been in5taurated and established by mirae1es, but by the rcvelation of the spiritual sense, and also by ...

44. The spiritual sense of the Word has been disclosed by the Lord throngh me, which was never revealed bofore since the Word was written with the sons of Israel; and this is the 'very Sanctuary of the Word : the Lord Himself is in it with His Divine; and He is in the natnral sense with His Human. Of this, Ilot one jot ean be opened except by the Lord alone. This surpasses 0.11 the revelations \Vhich have existed hitherto since the creation of the \Vorld. Throngh this rovelation thore is an open communication of men with the AI]gels of Heaven ; and a conjunction of the two worlds has been effected; for, when man is in the natnral sense, the Angels are in the spiritual sense.

~~o~ 238. The rnlers of the Church who flock into t la orld aCter death, are first tanght concerning the Sacred S<.:riptllre, that it contains. a spiritual sense, which in the worlel was IInknown to them ; and they also told, that the Angels of Heaven are in that sense, while man is in the sense of "the letter; and further, that a translation or change of the latter sense into the formel' is effected with man, while he reads the Word in a state of holiness: that there is then a kind of unfold­ing or unswathing, likethe breaking of the shell enclosing an almond; whereupon the she11 is dispersed, and the naked almond passes into Heaven, artd is received by the Angels ...

Spiritual Truth. Verttm spiritua!e. A.425. 'Silver'=spiritual truth.

15512. 'For iron silver'=for natural truth spiritual truth.

1876e. Spiritual truths and celestial goods (ajonc re­main with angelic Spirits).

1911. Intellectual 01' spiritual truth. 2507.

20693. See CELESTIAL Tl:UTH, here. 58979.

2507. 'Sarah his wife' =spiritual truth eonjoined with the Celestial. 2517.

2553. That they would have no respect fol' spiritual truth in that state. Sig. and Ex. 2554,Ex.

2557. That the Rational is l'rom celestial good as a father, but not l'rom spiritual truth as a mother. Sig. and Ex. . '-''-'". For if spiritual truth were to inflow l'rom the interior, aS good cloes, man wonld he horn ÏJ1to the whole Rational and .Scientific. (Thus man in his present state) would aclulterate and l'alsify the truths which flowedin.

2558. That spiritual tru th has been conjoined with the Celestial by means of rationality.Sig. and Ex,

25742. That the Lord alone had perception l'rom spiritual truth. Sig. and Ex.

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Celestial Rational 547 Celestial Sense

influx from the miùdle or second Heaven, which is the SpirituliflIeaven ; and those are call celestial natural

-.l.. l who receive influx f!:Q!ILthlLtl!Ü:.d or inmost Heaven,

twhIèhis th;-Celestial Heaven. The'sPliitual natural and celestiBI natural angels are distinct from each other, bnt still constitute one Heaven, because t ey are( in one degree.

W. 2332• Before the assumption of the Human, the Divine inflnx into the natural degree was m~e

through the an~ic Heavens, but al'ter ita assùmption ( it was iiî!!llcilill.te !rom Ilimself; which is the reason whyall the Churches in the world before His Advent were representative of spiritual and celestial things, but al'ter His Ad vent were macle spiritual and celestial natural; and representative worship was abolished.

Celestial rational. Coelestis rationalis. A. 21802. Sacrifices l'rom the f1ock=celestial rational

things.

2184. 'Butter'=the Celestial of the Rational.

Celestial sense. Sensus coelestis. ~..te INMosT KNSE.-- - ­

~20153. This is the heavenlysense of the Word . ..

21578. (The celestial sense given.) 47354• 5331. 9198. 10265. R.882. '1'.295. 299. 303, etc.

2311. 'Vhen these names and expressions are unfolded in their heavenly sense ... there cornes forth the in-t~lse which is the angelic Word. ­

C 1U52• By the Lord's pivine Human in the celestial

sense is signified Divine love itself ...

~5· In the inmost Heaven, ail things of the Word are applied to the or 's Divine Human; 1'0 n els thcre think immediatel from the Lord, and perceive the

( wora ill..its.in~se, w lC is the celestial sense. ~§) There is a still more intarior sense in the Word, ~is called celestial ... but this sense can scarce y be unfolded.JQtiLdM!lRllt...fulls.OJl!.IlCh into the tlîought

) \of the understandillg, as i th affection of the will. The reason there is s. still more interior sense in the Word, which is called celestial, i"that l'rom the Lord there proceed Divine good and Divine truth; Divine ood

l'rom His Divine l ,and Divine truth l'rom His Divine wisdom; both are in the Word, for the Word is the Divine which proceeds.

27· The sense of the letter of the Word is the basis, the containant, and the support of ita spiritual and celestial sense. Gen.art.

39 The spiritual sense is the' sEiJ;.it· of the Word, and t \l...Cllles 'al sense is its 'li(p.' 'ms ~hat the Lord said (John vi.63) ... The spIritual sense and the celestIal sense are not the Word without the natural sense. . .

40. Naked truths themselves ... are in the spiritual sense of the Word, and naked "oods are in its celeBtial sense. .

and a diamond ; fr,o.m..the...c.el.~lWle..like-&.r.u and frum...the-spidtuaLlight-likEL&..diauwnd.

63. The Angels of the Spiritual Kingdom are in the spiritual sense of the Word, and the An els of t1).e C.lllllstial King in ita celestial sense. These senses arc evolvecl l'rom the natural sense of the Woru when a true man is in it. 64.

64. The things which 1 unrlerstood according to 'the natural sense, the Spiritual Angels understood aecording to the spiritual sense; and the Celestial An els accord- ) in to the celestial sense; an t lS in an instant. 67,Examp.

80. There are two senses in the Word which lie hidden in the sense of ita letter, the spiritual and the celestial; in the spiritual sense the things of the Word relate chiefly to the Church, and..iuJ;he celestial chiefl to he d ; also in the spiritual sense they relate chiefly to DiVine) truth, and..in..the-.eelestial Divine 0 • Henee it is that in the sense of the letter of the Word there is this marriage. Eut this does not appear to auyone except to him who l'rom tbe spiritual and celestial sense of the Word knmvs the significations of worus anù names, for sorne words anù names are predicated of good, and sorne of t~th, and some include both.

~) 221. There are three senses aecording to three degrees in the Word, the celestial sense, the spiritual 1 sense, and the natural sense. ~ R.I739°. In each and everything of the Word there

is a celestial sense and a spiritual sense, and in the celestial sense is Divine '00<1, and in the spiritual seuse Divine truth.

8302. Both Divine good and Divine truth are in the WOl'(l!; the Divine trnth of the Word is Ïn its spiritual

d rlsense, which is for the Angels of the mi dIe or secon Heaven, who al'e in intelligence from Divine truths; and the Divine ood of the Word is in its celestial ense, which is for the An"els of the highest or third Heaven, who are in wisdom l'rom Dlvineoods; out t'18 sense/If is ver dee 1 'dùen, eing perceptible only to those w 10 are in love to the Lord froJ;!l~rù.

959, In its first origill the Word is purel Divine; when this passed through the Heavens of the Lord's Celestial Kingdom it became Divine Celestial, and when it passed through the HeaveiiSOf the Lord's Spiritual

Kiugdom it became Divine S iritual, and when it came to man it became Divine Natnral; hence it is that the natural sense of the Word contains within it the s iritual~(! sen -and.- . the celestial sense, and bot a sense purel Divine, which is not open to any man, nor even to any Angel.(t. 212. As there are three Heavens, so there are also

three senses of the Word, celestial, sp~I, andJ 1 natural ... the first,being in the n~le, amr throllgh \ the middle in"t11ë ultima.te, just astli.e end is in the cause, and t roug 1 e cause in the effect. Hence it is

1 evident what is thc nature of the Word, namely, that -:;; As our Word in its bosom from its celeBtial 1 in the sense of its letter, whieh is natural, therc is an

5enB~, is like a flame WIll kind " n In 1 iJJ.tw'., int?rio~' sense ,;hich is spiritual, and in t . a . ost Il'1 III bosom, l'roUI its spiritual sense, is like a rIgnt .Jvhi.:h IS celestial . . • _ '

W llC} elllïgll ns; In itS"ûltimate bosom, or natural 287. In the sense of the letter, the Decalogue contains ) llense, in which a}'e the two interior ones, itislike a ruby : the general injunctions of doctrine and of life; and in

Celestial Spiritual 548 Celestial Spiritual

the spiritual and celestial sense all things uuiversal1y. Gen.art. ­

['l'.] 289. In each and aIl things orthe sense orits letter, or in general and in every part, the W ord keeps stored up t . .erior enses, one which is called spiritual, and the other ce~l, and in these s~s Divine truth is

1( in its light, and D' . e...g.oQduess in its heat. (Hence it is necessary) that the ten cornrnandments of the Deca­logue should be unfolded according to these three senses, whieh are caUed natural, spiritual, and celest~

~ 4671. Each and 8011 things therein treat of the 1J Lord i s h a sense eannot he ex ounded hecause it is

the celestial itself ...

E. 6302. In the Word thore are three distinct senses as ere are three Heavens i the inIDost sense which is caUed the celestial sense is for the inmost or third Heaven, the midllle sense which is caUed the spiritual sense is for the middle or second Heaven, and the ultimate sense which is ca1led the celestial and spiritual natul'&1 sense is for the ultimate or first Heaven. These th l'ce senses, besides the natural sense which is for the world, are in the ,Vord anù in everything therein.

10242. In each of the Comrnandments thcre are three intcrior senses, oue sense fol' each Heaven... The first sense iB the spiritual moral sense i this is for the first or ultimate Heaven; the seconù sense is the cJ1estial spiritual sense, whioh is for the second or middle Heaven; and the third seuse is the Divine celEBtial sense, \\'hich is for the third or illmost Heaven. There are these three int,ernal senses in everything of the Word ...

10663. As the Divine truth which is the ,Vord was let down into the world by the Lord, it passed throngh the tlll'ee Heavens, anù thus became jl.c.c.onUnoùa.tcd to each Reaven, and at last also to men in the world. Rence it is that thcre are four senses in the Word, one outside another from the hlghest Heavell down to the world, Or one within anothel' from the world up to the highest Heaven. These four senses are caUcd the

I{ celesti~l, the spiritual, the natural from the eelestial ( and spu'itual, and the m' natura1. The last is for ~

the wor1ù, the one mentioned oefore it is for the ultimate Heaven, the spiritual Sense is for the second Rcaven, and the celestial sense is for the third.

Celestial spiritual. Coelestis spiritualis. Celestial of the Spiritual. Coeleste

spiritualis. Sec ISRAEL, and JOSEJ.'H.

A. 91". Rational ami scientilic things from a celestial spiritual origin,sig.

143". The celestial, or the celestial spiritual man, is here trcated of.

161. This posterity of tho l\I ost Ancient Church was •.. still good, and as they desired ta live in the ex­tel'llal man, or in propriUlll, this was granted ta them by the Lord, but in mercy what was celestial spiritual was insinuated.

200. The inmost of the celestial man, 01' of the 1\lost ancient Ohm'ch, was 'the tree of lives,' which is love

and thence faith; but the middle of the garden or the inmost of this man, who may be called a celestial spiritual man, or that .of this posterity, was faith.

282. The lirst posterity of the most Ancient Church in which there was celestial spiritual good, treated of.

296". Whatever was in the ark, hahitation, tent i nay, whatever was upon Aaron ... signilied 'what is celestial spiritual.

297. Celestial good is that which is not clothed, because it is inmost, and is innocent; but celestial spiritual good is that which is first clothcd, and also natural good ; for they are more exterior, and are com­pared to garments, and are also ealled 'garments.' Ill.

3532• 'Fat' = Celestialspiritual good.

10012. The ceh,stial things which a l'egenerate spiritual man receives from the Lord arc celestial spiritual things.

__4. 'Fat' (Lev.iii.17)=celestial life; and 'blood.' celestial spiritua.l life. The Celestia.l Spiritual is the Spiritual which is from the Oelestial ; as with the Most Ancient Chureh, love to the Lord was thbir Celestial, because it was implanted in their will ; thbir Celestial Spiritual waS the faith thel1ee derived. But with the spiritual man there does not exist the Celestial, because charity is implanted in his inte1lectual part, but there exists the Celestial Spiritua.l

10423. 'The splendour of lire round about from the loins downward, like a bow in a cloud' (Ezek.i.27,28)= the Celes\.ia.l Spiritual ... Thus the Spiritua.l Heaven ... is repl'esen ted 'from the loins downward.'

1496'. Ali instruction is merely the opening of a way, and as the way is opened ... so do they inflow, in arder; from celestia.l spiritual things, rational things ; into these celestial spiritual things, and into these celestial things.

1577". When the Celestial Spiritual of the internai man inflows into the Natural of the external man, and causes thorn to act as one, the Natural also thus becomes celestial and spiritual, but a low'er celestial and spiritual ...

1588". The Rational of man is compared to 'a garden' from the representative which is presented in Heaven i it is the Rational of man, when what is celestial spiritual flows into it from the Lord, which sa appears ; (the ruagnificent paradises there) are an effect of the influx of celestial spirituallight from the Lord i nor is it the paradisiacal beautics which affect [the Angels], but the celestial spiritua.l things which live in them.

1824. 'A l'am' (Gen.xv.9)=those things which are representative of celestial spiritual things ... Exterior cclestial things are those of the extl'rnal !Dan; interior celestial tl.ings are those of the internai man i celestial spiritual things are those which are thence derivcd... The Celestial Spiritual is every affection of truth in which there is affectiou of good, or every affection of truth which is generated from affection of good; thus it is faith in which there is charity, or faith which is generated from charity.

19502. The case is almost the same with the Celestial Spiritual, that is, with truth from a celestial origin, or . with the truth which is from good; for this truth is

Inmost 678 InmostHeaven

[A.] 9773°, For the Lord is in the inmost; and From th e inmost proceed al! things . . .

9825. The inmost of the Spiritual Ringdom corn­municates with the Celestial Kingdom , .. The inmost of each Heaven communicates with the higher one, .. --. The' end must he the inmost; the cause the

mediate .•• --. The tunie (of Aaron) represented the inmost

there. 99902• The purification of his Internai itself, which

is his inmost, (was represented by the burnt·o!ferings and sacrifices) of lamhs.

9992. 'Unleavened bread' = the purification of the Celestial in the inmost man.

1001 I. The head is circumstanced as is the highest or inmost in the Heavens, which descends and inflolVs into the Heavens belo\\', and produces and derives them ... In a word, that which is inmost is the one only thing in the derivatives which essentiaHy lives. Hence, the Divine, being the Inmost of aH things . , . is the one only thing From whieh is the life of ail.

10044. As From the inmost proceed all things which are without The inmost with man is his will and understanding .

100480. There are in man externals, internais, and inmosts. AH these are disposed and ordinated simul· taneously and suecessively for the reception of sequents to eternity,

10181 3, In like manner in the man in whom is Heaven :-his inmost is in a more perfcct state than his mediate; and this than his ultimate; and they con­sociate solely by correspondences.

10184. 'Its roof'=the inmost. Ex. --. The inmost here signified ... is the inmost of

worshin. __2. For good is everywhere the inmost ...

10188°. For the Divine sphere whieh proceeds into the universe proceeds From the inmost; and the inmost is aH in aH things which thence succeed.

10259°. From the ultimate and the inmost there must be what is full; but From the mediates, as much as is correspondent. Sig.

H. 39. There is with cveryone ... an inmost or hirrhest degree, or an inmost or highest something, into which the Lord's Divine first inflows ... By this inmost or highest, man is man, and is distinguished l'rom brute animais. " 435. J.255•

__o. Wbat is disposed and provided by the Lord in this inmost ... is above tbe thought ...

285. There arc two inmost things of Hc:wen, -inno­cence and pcaee. They are caHed inmost tbings, becanse they proceed immediately From the Lord ... __C. That innocence is the inmost of good ...

297. The Lord Himself ... rnles man's nltimates from his inmosts, and at the same time his inmosts From his ultimates .. ,

J. 256• Those in Rell also have this inmost degree of life ...

P. 39°. The happinesses .. , begin fronl the Lord, thus From the inmost ...

119'. Recause thc Lord acts into the inmost of lIJall ; and, From the inmost, into the consequeuts ...

1244. That the Lord aets From inmosts and /'1'0111

ultimates simultaneously. Ex.

125. The inmost of man is his life's love, .. __2. These things which are in the inmosts or mali,

and in the successives l'rom the inmosts to the nltimate" are utterly unkno\\'ll to him ...

181. The mind ... actuates , .. the ultimatcs l'l'om the inmosts; and also the inmosts From the nltimates.

R. 933. That in the inmosts of the Truths ... is tl,,' Lord in His Divine love ... Sig, --. 'In the midst' = in the inmost; allli thellce in

aH things arouud. Refs. __Jo Because in spiritual things ail things arc, allll

all things procecd, l'rom the inmosts; as ...

D. 979. The Lord. , . acts thus, From thc inmosts.

1825. That al! things of faith are infi1led l'rom tlle inmosts.

2462. On the more interior and inmost things of the Worel.

2487. That the inmost and more interiOi' things of man eannot be injlll'ed; but only his interiors.

3474. The inmost and more iuterior mimIs arr !lot theirs, but the LOI·d's.

46273. The interiors of man ... thus succccll,-the Seusuous, the Natul'al, the Spiritual Natural. TheBe are of thc external man. Then come the Celcstial of the Spiritual, the Celestial, and the Inmost, which lacks a name, because it receives immediately the good and truth which proceed From thc Lord. These arc of the internaI man ...

E. 31314. For sucb as is the inmost, such is tl", whole; because a1l the other things are produce<1 aud llerivcd From the inmost ... The inmost of everythilll-( is what is ca1led its sou!. Examp. and Sig.

Inv. 49. Nothing is more common ... than fol' onc thin rr to bc within another,-thus, the inmost, t!", middle, and the outenl1ost,-and for these threl\ to commuuicate \\'ith cach othcr; and for the forcc or the mediate and of the outermost to bc l'rom thc inmost. Examps.

See THIRD HEAVEN.

. And in the inmost aml supreme sense there is the Divine marriage which is in the Lord; thug t.he Lord Himsclf.

8943. The Word in its inmost sense treats of the Lord alone.

89880. The Lord Rimself, who is the ail in all thing. of the Word in its inmost sense.

9389°. Therefore the 'INorel in its inmost and snpreme

Inn� 679 Innate

sense tI'eats of the Lord alone; and especially of the 1 he brought him ta those \\"ho arc instl'Ucted in the glorification of His Human. Hence cames ail the Roly of the Ward. 1037°.

106142. In the Ward there are the extel'llal sense, the internai sense, and the inmost sense... Thc Ward in its inm08t sense i~ celestial, being accommoclated ta the perception of the Angels in thc Lonl's Celestial Kingdom. 2802. ~ 1072• The doctrine of celestial goal! ... is C0n­

tained in the inmost sense of the 'Yard. 11..7258.

doctrine of the Chureh l'rom the Ward, " 444". 70612. It is saitl that this \\"as' done 'because tllero

\\"as no place in the inn' (Luke ii.7); for by 'an inn' is signified a place of instruction. This is signifiecl by 'an inn' in Luke x.34; xxii. II ; ~lark xiv.14; and it \\"as with the J6\\"S, who were then in mere falsities by the adulteratiou of the Ward. This, therefore, is what is signified by there being no place in the inn,

J. (Post.) 282. From theÏ!' corner, which is as it were (Vi. HI. IO~. The celestial Angels ... percûive the 1 their inn thcre, the i\Ioravisns go out by tm'ns ... \\~its inmost sense. Refs.

, S. 62•• In its u~ti~atc sense the ":onl is. natural ; in

lts mtenor sense It IS spiritual; and III its mmost sense it is celestial

.

~ . These are in the inmost sense, which treat.~5102a

o~e Lord. 5578. He toM me what cach thing signilied; not

what the sense of the letter, uor what the interiOl' or spiritual sense, but what the inmost sense whieh is cclestial. This he sali', not l'rom the words, but l'rom the letters 8ud their Aections aud curvings . . .

5604. The celcstials have [the Wonl] accol'ding ta the inmost sense.(!. 4354, In the inmost sense is the Lord aJonc; for it treats there about Him, the glorificatiùlI of His Hnman, the ordination of the Heavens, the sllbjllgation of the HeUs, and thc establishment of the Church by llim ; and tberefore, in the inmost sense, each of the tl'ibes=the Lord as ta sorne attribute and ",ork of His, --. The inmost or celestial sense is for the inlllost

or Third Heaven. ,

Inn. Diversoriltlll. See DIYJ':Rs\O:\s.

A. 5495. 'Ta gil'e fodder ta his ass iu the inn' (Geu,,' xlii.27)=when they rcfiected upou the scientifics in the exterior NatnraJ. . , 'An inn'=the extcl'ior Natnra1. That 'an inn' lIas this signification cannat be confirmed l'l'am pal'aUel passages ... but it can from the fact thnt scientifics are as it ",ere in thcir inn when they are in the exterior Katnral ... Bence this Natural is the inn, or place of l'est or of passing the night, fol' scientifics.

5656. "Nhen wc came ta the inn, and opened 0111'

sacks' (Gen.xliii.21)=introspection into the extel'Ïor Natnral. 'An inn'=the exterior Natural in generaI.

7041. 'It was in the ",ay in the inn' (Ex.iv.24)=the posterity of Jacob, that they were in externals withollt an internaI. --. 'The inn' = the external Natnral 01' Sensnous.

'fh Il h' 1 II 1 b ' R 86. 3· ey are co eges w lC 1 are ca ec y us 1 . 1 ù' tat' . 1 l' 6 mns, II' lcrc Ispn'. lOns are carne< on . . . .4 o. M. Id. The fourth saiù ... l ",as carrieù iuto an

inn� whore hcalth retnrncd ta me , '

D. 1189, Sa that (the higber region of tbe palate) is as it were an inn; and therefore the)' caUed their chamber, .. thcir inn.

l t T tnna e. .L Il1lil us. See E"CI1AYT, and bIPUl'TEJ)-in.,.itu-s,�

"� A. 2727. Alroost ail be"el'e that (marnage love) is

innate ...

3843°. The things which come forth-pTodeunt-from the interior memory appear as if they were innate, Examp. 79352.

6367. Innocence \\'ith innate forces. Sig. and Ex. --. Those of the :\lost Ancient Church ... wcre

born into thc goot! of love ... Heuce the forces are called innate.

7327. Falsificlttion becomes total ",hen falsity begins ta reign; fol' then the lllan lives accorùing ta evil [bath] innate and acquired ...

9918'. (Scientifics then) allllost vanish l'rom the ex­ternal mcmory, and al'pear as if they were innatc, becanse they are implante,l in the man's lifc.

H. 2702. Henee it is that ta the (celestial) Angels Divinc truths appear as if they were inscribed, or as if thcy were implanted and innate ...

1� 342'. Therefore he was let iuto the life ùf evils which

,

was innate to him.

343. Such a desire is innate with Spirits.

~66. As this love is innate ,,'ith bath (sexes).� .)�

Innocence. Illnocentia. Innocent. IWlOcens.

See under I~n'AN'l', Kw, LAMB, and NAKED.

A. 154". They who are in innocence appear there as infants variollgly adol'lleù ...

163, 'They were naket!, aud blushed not'=that they were innocent; ta \Vit, that the Lord had insinnated innocence into theü' proprinm, lest the latter shoulcJ he nngratefll1. 165.

164. Innocence as it "'cre abolishes evils and falsities ... Sa long as infantile innocence shines out with infants ... their evils and falsities ... are even pleasing.

__2. Hence ... no one can be admitted into Bcaven 1 1 1 h' l' . S' nn ess le las som et mg a Innocence. 19. , ,� , 1~5: Sl)l1'Its ... present t1~elllselves. naked, ta testIfy

then' mnocence. (And) the mnocent-In Heaven appear as naked infants, wrcathed with garlands according ta the species of their innocence; whereas they who have Dot sa mueh innocence appear clothed with garments ...

430. 'A little one'=innocence, and also charity'; for E. 37542• That 'he hrought him into an inn, and said 1 there is no trne innocence without charity, nor truc

that they ",cre to take care of him' (Lnke x.34)= that 1 charity ",ithout innocence.

Support· 107 Supposition

104412. Unless the IIcsh and bones were in the l'lace or bases or Supports, man eould not subsist. Ex.

S. 51. Every word (in the sense ot' the letter) is a eontainant ami Support. 1'.226. E. 10852. .

M. 332'. Unless the understanding ean support it by sorne rcason ...

T. 126. Fol' Gad was then most present in His inmosts, and supported Him.

D. 3605". Sa that places ane! lllateriai things are the Supports on whieh (the Spirits) stane!.

3980. '\Vhen good works were taken away, the Supports on whieh they were standing were taken a,,'a)'.

4690. Thus they would also take away t'rom Heaven it~ Support.

58 [5· They eould serve the infernal crew as a Support.

E. 2[94• 1'0 support by the tl'Uths upon which the

Chnrch is foundee!. Sig.

65439• S!!(fulcire, occms.

8[6'1. As the Ward in thc letter is such, it is as it "'cre a Support for Heaven ...

946. F!tlci?'c oeeurs.

De Verbo Il. The Word, ta which the sellse of its letter serves as a Support and basis. Ex.

5 M. ISe. Through this New ChUl'eh the Lore! ... supports Heaven.

Support. Suffragari. Suffrage. Suffragùtlll.

W. 72e. Merely natural lumen wonle! not support (this idea). Eut (the iclea) that the Divine infills (al! space) it does support ...

3422. These facts of experience support those who say ...

R. 121. Truths supporting and united to goo.!. Sig. --. The suffrages were collectee! by means of

stones. .. E. [47.

Supporter. Stator. M.90. The Creator aud Supporter of the llniversc ...

2382. 1.92.

Suppose. Autltlllare. A. 9812. As l suppose.

1661". The Lord eould then suppose no otherwise.

17173• He who supposes that ...

2625'. He ean suppose no otherwise.

4174. He supposes that it is ofhimself.

H. 340. :Many may suppose th-;;t ...

3522. They who in childhood had supposed .

482. Supposed they had been in faith.

T. 282. Who ean suppose that .

Suppose. Putare. A. 93°1'. Whatever he supposes himself to under,

stand of himself is l'aise.

D. 2969. They suppose Spirits to speak of thclll­sel ves.

2985. They suppose that they live l'rom themseh-es.

3025a. One who supposed that he eould do good ... t'rom himself.

3056. They supposed it to be a phanbsy that ...

Supposition. Suppost'tio. A. 322. Because of their suppositions about spirit.

D.17[9· 369c. Thus in the very supposition they extinguish

charity.

448c. El' their defillitions anù suppositions they deprive Spirits of every sense.

Supreme. See HIGHEST.

Supreme sense. SellStts suprelllus. ~ee bmo T ENSE.

((i;) 99. In the supreme sense, it= the Lord Himself. ~i'3.

2904. Ali things in the Worel, in the 6upreme sense, regard the Lord. 3393. 36600. 37122. 74 1 70.

31322. In the supreme sense, it= the Divine lllarriage.

32453. The internal sense conccming. the Lord is the supreme seDse.

3393. The intcmal sense is representative of the supreme sense.

3439. Thc Divine Itself is in the supreme sense of the '\'ord, becanse the Lord is there ...

3451. The Word as to the supreme sense is the Lord Himself ...

347 [. In the supreme seDse it treats of how the Lord made the Human with Himself Divine... 393ge. 39933

• 44°2. 37122. In so far as the Lord is the 'Word, 'it may be

said that ... the supreme seDse is represented by Abraham.

3863. The supreme sense, the intel'llal sense, and the external sense, given. 3869. 3875. 3880. 3921 • 3927. 3934. 3938. 3956. 3960. 3969. R·350. 351. 352. 354· 356. etc.

3954. In the supreme sense, it=the Divine love.

3966. In the supreme sense, it= Foresight.

4°71. The supreme sense, which treats of the Lord, is sueh that it appears divided in the sensc of the letter, but it is one in the supreme internai sense.

4212. In the supremesense, it,-"eonjnnetion through good and truth in the Lord's Natmal.

42792. The supreme sense of the Word, in which the Lord is treated of, is for the Third Hea"en . :. Man is snch that the interiOl', and also the internal, antl the supreme sense, can be communicated to him ; for man communieates with the three Heavens . .. .

4302. In the supreme seDse, in which the Lord is treated of ...

4402. As the things in the supreme sense are con­eerning the Lord, .\nd snrpass the ideas of man's

Sure lOS Surpass

thonght, for they are Divine, (we may illnstrate this by the regeneration of man). 6716'. 6827.

[A.] 4570e. For that which is represented, in the supreme sense, relates to "Him.

55764. In the snpreme sense, it=the Divine good of the Divine love for saving the hnman race.

5688'. The '.Vord eontains heavenly things, and, in the supreme sense, Di'l"ine ones.

6343'. In the inmost and supreme sense, there is the Divine marriage which is in the Lord, thns the Lord Himself.

6827. In the whole Word, in its inlllost or supreme sense, it treats of the Lord alone, and of the glorification of His Hnman ; but, as the inmost or supreme sense transcends the human lInderstallding, wc may explain the "Tord as to its internaI sense ...

7193e. Therefore the things which are nllderstood of the Lord in the supreme sense, are ullderstood of the faithful in the relative internal sense.

7823. In the supreme sense, by 'thc passover' is represented the damnation of the unfaithful, and the deliverance of the faithful by the Lord, when He had been glorified ...

8443. In the supreme sense it treats of the Lord Himself i:in which sense also there is the veriest Divine truth.

8665. In the supreme sense, where Divine good and truth Di\'ine are treated of, there is consociation as to a Divine celestial state.

8688. In the -supreme sense, where i t treats of the Lord, there are Foresight and Providence.

940711. Therefore in the supreme sense of the "Tord, it trcats of the Lord alone, of His love, Providence, His Kingdom in the Heavens and on earth, and especia1Jy of the glorification of His Human. 9503'.

10076. 'A r:J.m'=the good of innocence and charity in the internaI man; and, in the supreme sense, the same in thc internaI of the Lord's Hnman.

I0178e. For ail things which in the internai sense= snch things as are of the Chnreh and Heaven, in the suprerne sense= Divine things.

rœ. 2539. In the supreme se~se of the \\"orll thcre is t~ord Himself ...

Sure. See under CERTAIN.

Surface. Sttpeljicies.� Superflcial. Sttperftcialis.�

A. 76434. 'The boundary,' and 'the surface' = the extremes and the ultimates in which interior things are terminated. Ill. 7644. 7687.

w. 413". This something adhered to every love as a surface, and by i t the love shincs out of the surface.

M. 380. See SUN, here.

388. It is then Iike what is superficial, with nothing within.

E. 5952• This may be illustrated by the idea or a surface ...

Surpass. Superare. See EXCEEll.

A. 22493• They surpass al! apprehension.

Surpassing. Egregius. 1'.459\7.

Surround. See CO~IPAss-a11lbire.

Surround. CÙ·cumcitlgerc. H. 118. The Moon appears surrounded\\'ith a nUlllùer

of smal!er moons.

W. 158. Each and ail things (of the Earth) are sur· rounded \\'ith spiritual things ...

T. 475. The material body with which he is snI'· rounded.

Surround. Circltlllfimdcn. Surrounding, A. Circumfusio.

A. 73132. They who are in infestatiom arc surrounded by falsities ...

81373. A surrounding by waters as of the sea... fol' at His presence they arc surrounded by their own evils and falsities. 8188. 8223. 8299.

H. 17. There are spiritual spheres of life, whieh ... surround them ...

P. 296". As sonnd ... spreads itself around iu the air ...

Surround. Circumstipa1-e. A. 59'. l have been surrounded by evil Spirits, SOllle·

times by thousands of them.

4ï50. When sent to others (the celestial Angels) are surrounded by other Angels ...

H. 49(b). A spiritual sphere surrounds everyone. Refs. E.10763•

52. \Vheu the Lord appears in the midst of the Ange]s, He cloes not appear surrounded by many ...

W. 291'. The things ",hich emane from hilll sur· round him.

293. This is universal : that each thing is surrounded by something like that which is within it ...'

P. 303. Sec Dr;r,IGHT, here. M. 1712. This sphere surrounds a man ... thinly

behind, but densely on the brcast. 224·

Survey. See EXAMINE-lus/rare.

Survey. COIl/elllpiari. D. W is. vi i. 1.

Survey. Perfustrare. T.469z.

Susceptible. Susceptibilis. Susceptibility. Su,-ceptibilitas.

A. 15737• The Divine is not susceptible of evil.

8114. They ",ere susceptible of l:eeeiving a state of still mol'C interior happinéss.

M. 189. These fOl·ms ... arc vital, ancl thus suscep. tible.

D. 987. The susceptibility of this iclea is ,",Hiec] according to the facultics of the Spirit.

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or spiritual man. 'l'he external or natural mau is opened by means of sueh things as lIlan ùraws from the world ; but the internaI or spiritual man is opencd by means of sueh things as he ùraws from Heaven; for the externa! ... man has been formed for the reeeption of sueh things as are in the worlel, and the internai ... man for the reception of such things as are in Heaven ; the things which are in the world ... relate in general to a1l things which are of civil and moral life; whereas the things which are in Heavcn ... relate in general to ail things which are of love and faith.

[E. 150.]2. (Therefore) it is evident that unless the In­ternai is opened by its means, the man remains solely natural; and that then his Internai is closed. Bu!; those with whom the Internai is elosed are not men of the Church ...

156. Because the conj unction of the internaI man and the external man ... is effected by means of temptations.

1574• That the works are fullcr of love after the eon­junetion of the internaI man with the external. Sig. For the more the internaI man is eonjoined with the ex­ternal, the more of the internaI man there is in external things, consequently in the works. Ex.

1622• When a man thus wills truths, then the in .. ternal man .. , caUs forth and elevatcs the trnths from the natural man and its rnemory ... and conjoins them with the love which is of its will. Thus is opened the internaI spiritual man, whel'e is the interior and higher mind of man, and it is snceessfnlly infilled and per·· rceted. Where,\s, if the man suffers natural delight . . . to predominate, he sees ail things from this delight, and ... (thns) falsifies trnths. \Vhen this is done, the internaI spiritual man is elosed ... eontr<l.Cting like a fi bril when pricked; and then the love of self or the love of the world reigns, or both together; and form the external ... man in complete opposition to the internai man.

1632. For Heaven inflows through the spiritual or in­ternaI man into the natural or external man, and not into (the latter) immediately . .. 168.

164. It here treats of those with whom the spiritual or internai man is not so mueh elosed ...

1712• These delights, of the loves of self and of the world, are those whieh close the internai man, and open the external ...

177'. When the internaI ... man ... has been opened, then the Lord subdues the evils and disperses the falsities which are in the external ... man. Sig.

281 2• 13y the first ' eagle' is described the process of the regeneration of the natural or exterual man by means of ... Knowledges from the Word; and by the second 'eagle' is deseribeù the proccss of the regenera­tion of the spiritual or internaI man by means of truths rrom good •..

3654]. That there would no longer be any disagrec­ment between the internai ... man and the externa1. Sig.

4758• That the internai man is purifieù by the truths of faith, and the extcrnal man by a life aeeording to thern. Sig.

794". The spiritual mind is that whieh is called the internaI and the spiritual man; and the natural mind is that which is called the external and the natural man ... And as the InternaI is conjoined with Heaven, and the External with the world, it follows that whatever a man does from this InternaI through the External, he does from Heaven ... and that whatever he does by the External without the InternaI, he does from him­self, Sig.

C. 178. That charity itself is in the internaI man, and its sign in the externa1.

__e. The spirit which fights with the flesh is the internaI man, which is charity.

179. The internaI man cannot manifest its quality before the man exeept through the externat. It mani· fests itself when it fights with the external. Especially does it manifest itself when the man examines himself, sees his evils ... confesses them, thinks of repentance, resists his evils, and sets about living a new life.

180. If a man does not do these things, his internai man is evil ; but if he does them, his internaI man is good. The Lord operates through the internaI man into the external ; and as evil at that time resides in the external man, a combat takes place ...

181. Whatever the internai man produces, and pre­sents to be scen and felt in the external man, is called a sign ...

183. There is no InternaI without its sign ... If charity is in the internaI man, or in the spirit, and it does not fight with the extel'llal man •.. the charity perishes.

Conv. 6. The internaI man is not only to undel'· stand, think, and know ; but it is to will what it under· stands, thinks, and knows. Hence it may be seen what the internai man is when separated from the external, and what it is when not separated.

Cano Redemp. iii. 6. In the internaI man the will must dorninate, thus the principal love of the life; but in the exte1'llal man the understanding must ùominate, which either manifestly,; or prudently, or eunningly, favours the internai man. 7. 8.

InternaI sense. Sel/SUS internus. See SPIRITUAl. SËNSE-; and under GLORY, POWER­

virtu,s, and MOSES.o 14· The internaI sense. (Heading.) 8r. 137, etc.

49". 'Power and glory'= the internaI sense of the Word, which regards the Lord only, and His Kingdolll, in eaeh and ail things; in which sense there are conse· ql1ently power and glory.

64. This, then, is the internaI sense of the Word, its veriest life, which never is cvident from the sensc of the letter. But the arcana are SO many that voll1!nes wOlllù not snffice for the explication of them ; only a very feIV are told here ...

662• Quite different in the internaI sense ... __. Scarcely ever intelligible except in the internaI

sense ...

67. As ... it has been given to know the internaI sense of the Word ...

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}'or vel'y mauy things which are in the internai internai sense. 'Vhen this sense appears, the sense of senae of the Ward regard, mention, and involve the the letter is obliterated; as, on the other hand, wheu things in the other !ife . . • attention is paid solely to the historical sense or that of

2[7. Because the internaI sense of the Ward has the letter, the internaI sense is obliterated •.. perished. [854. In the internai sense these things do not signify

6[8. Such is the internaI sense that it takes no ac- what they do in the sense of the letter; in the internai eOllnt of times. sense are those things which are of the life aCter death

__0. The Original Language derives this from the '" whereas in the sense of the letter are those which internaI sense. are of life in the world ... Uonsequently, they who are

in the internaI sense, as are the Angels, when such [025'. They who are in the internaI sense, as is the

whole of Heaven . . . things occur, never abide in such things as are of death and burial .•.

1143· The Ward of the Lord lives from the internaI 186[14. Hence it is evident that unless the internai sense; it is like asoul, the body of which is the external sense of the Ward is known, how easily man may fall sense. . . . th'

__2. If the man of the Most Ancient Church were III a p antasles. alive at this day, and were ta read the Word, he would 1873. Spirits have spoken concerning the internaI ... see only the internaI sense abstractedly from the sense of the Word, (and they illustrated it by the ex­letter. •. 1540°. pression thefr-uit offaith in its various senses, onc within

__0. There is not a syllable which in the internaI the other). sense does not involve arcana . . . 1877. Among such are those who do not want to hear

13[8. The internaI sense of the Word is such that it about the internai sense of the Ward, but onlyabout continually regards the things which follow, and the thc literaI sense ... conclusion, although it does not appear sa in the literaI 1887°. The quality of the Ward in the Heavens is sense. known solely from the internai sense; for the internaI

1404. In the internaI sense they = things quite differ- sense is the Ward of the Lord in the Hcavcns. 1929. eut from what they do in the sense of the letter . . • 2094·

1405. The internaI sense is so circumstanced ... that 1963'. Nothing has been written in the Ward which each and aIl things are ta be understood abstractedly does' not pass into a spiritual and celestial sense when from the letter, and as if there IYere no letter; for in the it passes ta the Angels ..• internaI sense is the soul and life of the Word, which 1965. This, then, is the internaI sense of the thiugs does not appear unless the sense of the letter as it were in this chapter ... But how copious this sense is, or vanishes, Sa do the Angels perceive the Ward, from how indefinite are the things which it contains, may the Lord, when it is being read by man. 1408. appear from this ... that as each and ail things which

140!13. In the internai sense these things are contrary are in the Ward, in the internai sense regard the Lord (ta what they are in the letter). . .. they treat also, in the internaI sense, of the Lord's

Kingdom in the Heavens, and also of His Kingdom on 1492. The internaI sense is such that the affection earth ... and in like manner of evel'Y persan in whom

itself which lies concealed in the words ie that which is the Kingdom of the Lord; and, moreover, in general, constitutes the internaI sense; and the words of the of everything celestial and spiritual. Exalllp. let tel' are not attended ta , ..

1984. Few can believe that in the Word there is an 1540. At this day, when ... almost a11 do not believe internai sense which does not at aIl shine forth from

that thera is any internai sense. . . the letter, and this because it is as remote from the --. It is the internaI sense which causes it ta be sense of the letter as Heaven is from earth.

Divine. __. The sense of the letter in relation ta the inter­__2. That the internaI sense is the 'Vord itself. .. nai sense is as the body of a lllan is ta his soul. While 1659. These, like a11 the rest, in the internai sense a man is in the body ... he knows scarcely anythillg

store up most arcane things, which also follow in a con- about his soul ... Sa it is with the internais of the tinuous series. . . Word. In its internaIs is its soul, that is, its life.

1756. The internaI sense of the Ward in relation ta These internaIs regard nothing else than the Lord, His the external al' literaI sense is almost as is speech, the Kingdom, the Church, and the things which are of His words of which are scarcely heard, stilliess attended ta, Kingdom and Church with man ..• when the mind is kept solely in the sense of the things __0. From these few things it may now be evident signified by the words of the speech. what the interna.! sense of the 'Word is ; and also that

1769. (The glory of the internaI sense as seen by it is remote, and in sorne places very remote, from the Spirits when they are taken up on high.) 1770. 3474. sense of the letter. 2004· 201 5. D.2054. 1988. The quality of the internaI sense of the Ward

1776. The Angels better and more fully understand may be especially evident from numbers, as from the internaI sense of the Word when infant boys and names ..• girls are reading it than when adults are doing sa who 2027~. They hate the truths which are of the internaI are not in the faith of charity. Ex. 1 sense.

17832. These are the things which are contained in the 20943• These are the things which are containcd in the

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internaI sense; and the internaI sense is the Ward of 1 2310. The internaI sense of the Ward has often beeu the Lord in the Heavens. They who are in the Heaven;; , treated of before; but 1 know that few can believe that perceive it so. When a man is in truth, that is, in the there is such a sense in the several things of the 'Vord ; internaI sense, he can then make one as to thought with not only in the propheticals, but also in the historicals. those who are in Heaven, although the man is relatively That there is such a sense in the propheticals may be in a very gcneral and obscure idea. more easily believed ... but that it exists in like

[A. 2094]0. The spiritual who are in Heaven .•• are manner in the histOl'icals does not sa easily appear· ..• confirmed by such things as are in the internaI sense, __C. The Word is holy ... because there is in it and are thus perfected . . . an internaI sense, which is heavenly and Divine, and

2135. From this chapter it lllay be espccially evident whic~ cal:ses it. ta unite Heaven with earth; that .is, what is the quality of the internaI sense of the Word . .. angehc mlllds wlth humall ones, and thus the latter Wlth

__3. That there is sueh an internaI sense every- the Lord. where in the Ward, in \\'hieh it treats solely of the Lord, 2311. When these names and words are expoundcd in of His Kingdom in the Heavens, of Ris Church on earth the heavenly sense, according to their constant significa­and in particlliar with eve;'Y man, thus of the goods of tion in the whole Word, there COlllCS forth the itIternai love and the trllths of faith. Examps. . sense, which is the angelic Won!. This twofold sense

2157. The celestial Angels perceive the Ward such as of the Ward is circumstanced as are the body and the it is in the internaI sense, as to the affection; but the soul; the literai sense is like the body, and the internai spiritual Angels perceive it sueh as it is in the internaI sense is like the soul; and as the body lives through sense as to the subject-rem. Ex. the soul, so the literai sense lives through the internai

2 sense; through the latter the Lord's life infiows into the2161. It may be evident what these things signify

. h' former, according to the affection of him who is reaùing. III t e InternaI sense from the series. of the things ...

Hence it is evident ho\\' holy the Ward is ... 21627• By this 'Angel' , .. issiguified the Ward, such

as it is in the internaIll6nse; [that is,] by 'the rainbow 23332• From these things ... it is evident how l'cmote

the internaI sense is from the sense of the letter; and round about his head,' and by 'his face as the sun;' but conse'luently ho\\' invisible it is, especially in the his­the external sense, or that of the letter, by his 'feet.'

__8. Ali things which are of the internai sense of toricals of the Word; and that it ùoes not appear unless the Ward are !lere 'the Heavens,' and are called 'the the several words are explicated according to their con­Lord's throne.' stant signification in the Ward. Therefore, when the

ideas are kept in the sense of the letter, the internai 22092

• If the Rational is consulted, can it believe that sense appears no otherwise than as a something obscure thcre is an internai sense of the Word, and that it is and darksome; but, on the other hand, when the ideas sa remote from the literai sel1se as hasbeell shown . • • are kept in the interna.1 sense, the sense of the letter in

2225. The sense of the letter is here similar to the like manner appears obscure ... internaI sense, as elsewhere pas.9im, especially where it 23350. From the internaI sense alone it appears how treats of the essentials of faith, which, being necessary the case is with 'Jndgment.' to salvation, are stated in the letter such as they are in the internaI sense. Examp. 23424. These arcana can never appear nnless they arc

disclosed by means of the internai sense.2235. (The internaI sense distinguished from the

proximate sense.) 23432• The series itse1f ... cannot shine forth in the

22423. Therefore the Ward, while as to the letter it explication of the several words ... but \Vhen ail things is for man, as to the internai sense it is for the Angels, are regarded together .. '. as takes place with those who anù also for those men, to whom, by the Divine mercy are in the internaI S!lnse ..• there is presented ta view of the Lord, it has been given to be as Angels during in these words the entire process of the reformation and their liCe in the world. 'regeneration of (these persons).

2249. That so much shonld be sail! in this chapter, in 2395· For the explications of the Ward as to the in-the internaI sense, in description of the state of the ternal sense are nothing else than singulars which eluci­Lord's thought and perception, and ... sa mnch con- date a general idea. cerning the state of conjunction of the Lord's Hnman 2495. That in the Ward there is lI;n internaI senee with the Divine, may appear ... as matters of no great which does not.appear in the letter, has been statedlLud consequence. show.n before in many places; and the quality of it

__2, (But) before the Angels, to whom the internaI appeal'8 from the things which have been explicated ... sense is the Word, these things are presented ta the life Bnt as few of those who believe in the Word know that with their representatives in a most beantiful form, be- thore is such a sense, we may further confirmthe same. sides innnmerable things which are consequences. •. Examp.

22522. Rence it is evident what is the qnality of the 2520'. As the hnman Rational is snch, the Word has Ward in the interna.I sense. been expressed according ta man's apprehension.·.•

2256. These things, because they onght not tO'be Therefore it is that the internai sense of the Ward, is done, and also because ta think of thern excites horror, different from its literai sense ... al'e removed in the internaI sense. . . 25313. In the Worù of the Lord are trnths them·

22693• Thns beautifully do the several things follow in selves; but in its liieral sense are trnths which a1'c' thcir series in the interna.1 scnse. 2333". accommodàted to the apprehension of those who are ·in

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external worship; whereas in its internaI sense are truths accommodated to those who are internai men. , , Hence it is evident how important it is that interiOl' truths should he known and received ...

25332, But still thc l'lord in its internaI sense is elevated to the angelie understanding; and yet in this 11ighest elevation, in which it is before the Angels, it is infinitely below the Divine.

25346, Hencc it may be evielent how much the in­ternaI sense of the 'Vorel is obscured by the ideas which have been apprehended from the rCl'resentatives of the Jewish Church ...

2540°, Very man)' things whieh are of slight value to man, .. are most 4ighly valued by the Angels •.. This is the case with the internaI sense of the Worel in many places,

2551. The internaI sense of the l'lord is especially for the Angels ; thus it has been adapted to their per­ccptions aud thollghts ...

2574°; Such things arc dispcllccl by means of the in­ternaI sense of the Ward, and thus (these Angcls) are perfected. Hcnce it may be evident how precious to the Angels are the things which are in the internaI sense of the l'lord ...

25886. They who arc in the affirmative that the 'Word 11as been so wriUen as to have an internaI sense which does not appear in the letter, can confii'm themselves hy many rational things; as by .. ,

26072. From this it may be known that there is an internai sense in the l'lord ...

260<). As to thc precepts of life . , . thcse, being of service to the vcry life of man, are of use in both senses . . . The things in the literai sense were for the people of that time, who clid not apprehend internaI things; the things in the internaI sense were for the Angels • , . Examps.

2663. That the historicals which' are of the sense of the letter divide the ideas, but that the internaI sense unites them, is cvident from these things ... Henee also it is evident that those who are three in the sense of the letter are one in the internai sense, as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, , .

2760,Pref. How greatly those wander in' mind who remain in the sense of the letter alone, and do not search ont the internaI sense from other passages where it is explicated in the 'Vord ... Examps.

2760. In the Apocalypse the "Vol'd as to the internai sense is thus described ..•

__2. That' heaven was opened' represents and sig­nifies that the internaI sense of the Wonl is not seen except in Hcaven, and by those to whom Heaven has been opeued, that is, who are in love to the Lord and the derivative faith. 'The horse which was white' re· presents and signifies the understanding of the Worel as to its interiors.. , 'Having a namé written which no one knewexcept Himself' =that no one sees the qualityof the l'lord in the internaI sense except Himself, and he to whom He reveals it ...

__6. From these things, and from those which there precede and follow, it is cvident that ahout the last time the internaI sense of the Word wOlllù be opened,

276r. That 'the white horge' =the unelcrstanding of the l'lord as to its interiors; or, what is the same, the interna.1 sense of the Word ...

__3, 'To ride in the cloucls'=the understanding of the Word as to its interiors, or in the internaI sense.

27622. The doctrine of faith is the same as the under­standing of the Word as to its intel'iors, or the internai sense.

28132. In ail these passages, by 'the Son of Man' is meant the Lord as to truth Divine, or as to the Word in its internaI sense ...

__3. That the Lord rose again on the third day also involves that trnth Divine, or the l'lord as to the inter­naI sense, as it was understood in the Ancient Chureh, shall be resuscitated in the consummation of the age ...

2859°. In the internaI sense of the l'lord nothing els.e is treatecl of than the Lord and His Kingdom... It is the Divine Human of the Lord of which the inter­nai sense of the Word especially treats. 2895°.

2897", Hence it is evident that (the ancient) l'lord also had an internai sense.

2899, A Word afterwarùs sueceedecl in the Jewish Chnrch which in like manner was written by rcpresenta­tives and significatives, to the intent that it might have in itself a11' internaI sense understoocl in Heaven, and that thus, throllgh the Word, there might ue a com· munication , . ,

2953. Thc internai sense is such that the \Vords are almost nothing, but their sense fiowing from the series presents the idea . , .

29593• It is so said for the sake of the internai sense. 49682. 72253.

3016°. The internaI sense is principallyfor the Angels, and for men whu'have angelie minds.

30352. The sense of the letter is sueh that it makes distinct what the internaI sense unites; and this be­cause man, who is to be instructed by the sense of the letter, cannot bave an iclea of one béfore he has first bad an ides of a number , • ,

30853. (Therefore) let no one wondcr that the things which are in the internaI sense here, cannot be described to the apprehension, and that the things 'wh-ich are clescrihed transcend it. , , and moreover the internai sense is chietly for the Angels, to the intent that through the 'Vord there may be a communication hetween Heaven and man; and they are to them among their delicious things, because heavenly food is nothing else, that all that whieh is of intelligence and wisdom . , .

3086.2. 1 know that these things are too arcane to fall into the apprehension, .. but as the internaI sense describes them ..• tbey mnst be expounded, however much they may appear to he ahove the apprehension ... 31282.

3141°. From these things it may he seen wllat·is the quality of the areana contained inthe internaI sense of the l'lord; and that these arcana are sueh that they can he apprehended ùy man scarcely as to the most general things; and yet that to the Angels they are evident, togetber with innumerable things which cau never he nttered inwords..

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[A.]3153. But the thillgS in the internaI sense here are such that unless they are looked at in one view of the thought, they appear too obscure to be comprehended ...

31792. There are ... indefinite arcana. by which man is then led by the Lord, only some of which shine forth from the internaI sense of the "lord.

3189". This ordination is treated of in the internaI sense in this chapter and in those which follow; but the things a.re very few which can be explicated to the a.pprehension: theyare adapted to the perception of the Angels,

3229". (Thus) the external or literai sense is the Word solely from the intemai or spiritllal sense, which is in it, a.nd from which it is.

32453. The internal sense concerning the Lord is the supreme sense; but the internal sense concerning His Kingdom is the relative sense.

3296". In the internal sense it trea.ts of the Lord ... but in the representative sense it treats of the regenera­tion of man.

33043. Such is the Word of the Lord tha.t the his­toricals a.re in their series; and the spiritual things, which are of the interna.I sense, are in theirs; in order that the former may be rega.rded by the external man, and the latter by the internai man; and thus that there may be a. correspondence between the two ... through the Word.

3358. It trea.ts of the appearances of truth of a higher degree which arc in the internai sense of the Word ... 3362.

3376". These things, whicll before man appear scat· tOl'ed, in the internaI sense are most ordinately con· joined ... Such is the Word everywhere in its internal sense.

33822. These things appear remote ... even from the proximate internaI sense.

33932• For the literai sense is representative and sig­nificative of the interna.I sense; and this sense is repre­selltative and significative of the supreme sense.

3398.. lt is for the same reason tha.t the arcana. of the internaI sense of the Word are now revealed, becansc at this day there is scarcely any faith, because there is no cha.rity ... and (therefore) they can be revea.led without danger of profanation, because thilY are not interior1y a.cknowledged.

3405. In the internaI or relative sense it treats of the a.ppearances of a higher degree, which are with the Angels ...

3424. As in the literai sense there is the internaI sense; that is, the celestial and Divine sense ..•

3427. Therefore 'Ezek,' or 'Contention'=the deniaJ of the internaI sense of the Word ...

__2. As to the interna.I sense of the 'Word the case is this :-they who are in the mere knowledge of Know­letlges ... a.nd they who are in the mere doctrin.al things of faith ... a.nd in no charity towa.rds the neighbour, ..Jannot do otherwise than deny that there is an internal sense of the Word. The chief causes arc that in their hearts they do not acknowiedge the Lord ... a.nd also in their hearts do not love their neighbour .•. and (such) cannot possibly do otherwise than deny

the internal sense of the Worel; for the Word in its internaI sense treats of no other thing than love to the Lord and love towards the neighbour; and therefore the Lord says that on these two precepts hang the Law and the Prophets, that is, the whole "lord. How much these persons deny the internal sense of the 'Vorù has been &'Ïven me ta sec from such in the other Iife; for when it is mercIy mentioned in their presence that there is a.n internal sense of the Word, which does not appear in its literai sense, and that it treats of love to the Loni ami towards the neighbour, then not only dcnia.l, but even aversion, nay, loathing, have been perceived from them. This is the primary cause. The other is tllat they completely invert the Word for they set ul' faith as the essential of the Church .

5. An additiona.1 cause is that they have no other delight in the reading of the Word than that by it they JOay gain honours and wealth, and reputation for the sake of thcse things .•. They who a.re such, in theïr hearts not only deny the internaI sense of the Wonl when they hear of it, but also the literai sense ...

3428. [A dispute] as to whether there is a.n internaI sense of the Word. Sig. and Ex.

__2. He who ruerely disputes as to whether there is an internaI sense of the 'Yord, can never see the in­numerable, nay, indefinite things which are in the internaI sense.

34322. After this Chllrch another slleceeded which was not celestial, but spiritual. At first this Church had no other Word than that which \Vas collected from the Most Ancients. This was representative of the Lord, and significati.ve of His Kingdom. Thus to them the 'in­terna.I sense was the Word itself.

34382. The interna.I sense is to the Iiteml sense as man's interiOl' or celestial and spiritual things are to his exterior or natural and corporeal things; his interiOl"S are in the light of Heaven, but his exteriors are in the light of the world •.. --. What is in the literaI sense of the "lord (these

persons) believe to be of the light; but what is in its internaI sense, the)' believe to be of the shade ... When yet the internal sense of the Wonl, relatively to its literai sense, is as the light of Heaven is to the light of the worlel ...

__3. In the internaI sense there are singulars of which myriads together make one particula.r which is presented in the literaI sense; or, what is the same, in the interna.I sense there are pa.rticulars of which myriads together make one general which is in the literai sense. This general is what appears to man, but not the par­ticlllars which are in it, and which constitute it ...

3439. The Divine itself is in the supreme sense of the Word, because there is the Lord. The Divine is also in the internaI sense, because there is the Lord's Kingdom in the Heaveus. Hence this sense is called celestialllud spiritual. The Divine is also in the literai sense of the Word, because thcre is the Lord's Kingdom on ea.rth. Hence this seuse is called external and also natural ..• These three senses are circumstanced as was the taber­nacle. Ex.

3440'. As in the literai sense the internai sense has been opened in many places; as ...

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__0. These things are of the internaI sense in the literal sense.

3447. Those who are in the literaI sense of the Ward ... and the agreement of their doctrinal things with the internaI sense, in sa far as they are from the literaI sense. TI'. 3451.

3453. That they had not violated the internaI sense of the Ward, and that they would not violate it. Sig, 3454·

3454· Ta violate the internaI sense is ta deny those things which are the principal things of this sense ... which are, the Divine Human of the Lord, love ta Him, and love towards the neighbour ... A fourth is, that the Ward, as ta each and aIl things of it ... is Divine, thus that the Lord is in the Ward. AIl who have doctrinal things from the Ward confess and acknowledge this; but still those deny it at heart who acknowledge no other Holy in the Ward than that which appears in the letter ...

3463. (Thus) it is evident what of the Lord is here represented by Isaac; namely, that it is the Ward as ta its internaI sense.

3464. For in each and al! things of the Ward there is an internaI sense, which is alsa in the doctrinal things which are from the Ward ..•

3540"· The book of Job •.. is not of thosc books which are cal!ed the Law and the Prophets, because it has not the interna! sense, whicb treats solcly of the Lord and His kingdoro. It is this alone which makes a book of the genuine Ward.

35993. From these things it is cvident what great arcana are contained in the internaI sense of the Word ...

36052• For the internaI sense is principally for thoso

who are in Heaven; and tbcrefore wben it descends thence and is derived inta the literaI sense, when the historicals are such, the affection of aversion falls inta the expression 'hatred' . .• 3607.

3610°. (Th us) the internaI sense is here quite different from what the sense of the lettcr sounds ...

3660°. Angels and Spirits are in the plcasantness of intelligence :and thc blessedness of wisdom when such things are with them from the internaI sense of the Ward ...

37 122. Divine doctrine itself is the Ward in the supreme sense, in which it treats of the Lord alone; derivative Divine doctrine is the Ward in the internaI sense, in which it treats of the Lord's Kingdom in the Heavens and on earth; Divine doctrine is also the Ward in the literaI sense, in which it treats of the things which are in the world and upon the earth. And as tl1e literaI sense contains in itself the internaI sense, and this the supreme sense, and completely corresponds by means of repl'esentatives aud significatives, therefore the doctrine derived from it is also Divine. --. W~ereas the Rational of the Word is circnm­

stanced as is the internaI sense; and, in so far as the Lord is the Word, it may be said that the internaI sense is re­presented by Isaac, but the supreme sense by Abraham.

3717. From (this) .•. it is evident what is the in·

ternaI sense and ",hat is the quality of it; namely, that the things which are of the literaI sense are such as to appear before the external sight, or some other sense, and that they are also apprehended according ta these senses; whereas the things which are of the internaI sense are such as to appear before the internaI sight or sorne other sense there . .. 3735.

3765°. From the Rational the 'Nord can be perceived according to the internaI sense,

37694, They elo not want even to hear that there is an internaI sense, in which is the holiness and the glory of the Ward; nay, when they hear that there is, at the mere hearing they loathe it l'rom aversion. Thus the Worel is closed up . . .

37938. Thence it is that they perceive nothing of the t.hings which are contained in the interna! sense; but at the first hearing darkness arises, whieh extinguishes the light.

3798. The snpreme internaI sense here is .••

38198. Hence it is that in the literaI sense of: the Word there are general truths, but in the internaI sense singnlar ones.

38333. For example, whether there exists an internaI sense of the Word which they cali mysticaI. Before this is believeel they cannat know a whit of those in­numerable things which are in the interna! sense ..•

3839. There arc two things whieh constitute the in. terna! sense of the Word; namely, the afl'ections and the subjects ...

39092• Henee it is that the literaI sense is sllch, because it has been aceommoelated ta the apprehension of the natural man; and the internaI sense is not sllcb, because it has been accommodated ta the apprehension of the spiritual man.

39212. Without the internaI sense it cannat be known what (this) signifies.

39422. The (Song of Solomon) is not among the books which are called Moses and the Prcphets, because it has not the internaI sense; but is written in the ancient style, full of significatives ..•

3954. With the internaI sense of the Ward the case is this,-that when the sense of the letter aseends towards Heaven, and there enters into the sphere where they are thinking from the Lord, and concerning the Lord, and the things which are of the Lord, it is at last sa per­ceived by the Angels. For the interna.I sense is the "\Vord to the Angels, to which the sense of the letter serves as a plane or as a means of thinking ...

3974°. Still, as these are the things which arc eon­tained in the internaI sense of these words .•• they are not ta be kept silent. Perh&ps some will apprehend them ..•

39823• In arder that the Ward may be read with delight, even by children and the simple. And ta the end th&t when they sre in holy delight from the historical sense, the Angels with them may be in the holiness of the interna.l sense, which interna! sense is adapted ta angelic intelligence, while the external sense is adapted to human intelligenee. Hence the consoei&tion of man with the Angels . .. 3993"

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[A.) 40272. From the Angels ... delight and blessed· ness inflow with the man who is in the affection of charity when he is reading these things ... and still more when he apprehends anything which is contained in the interna.! sense.

__e. Concerning these things, the Angels, who are in the internai sense of the Word, or to ",hom the in­terna!sense is the 'Yord, see and perceive innumerable things of which scarcely anything can come to the l1nderstanding of man; and what docs come falls into its obscurity, which is the reason why these things are not explicated more particularly.

4059· From ail the several things which Ilavc been stated in thesc verses, it is manifestly evident that there is an inter~a! sense; an~ that' unless this sense is unùerstood It cannot posslbly be known what they illvolve. . .

40 607. That then the Word will be revealed as to its interna! sense, in whieh is the Lord. Sig.

4071e.' The supreme sense, which treats of the Lord, i,~ such that it appears divided in the sense of the let ter ; but it is one in the supreme interna! sense.

41220. Hence it may be evident what is the quality of the interna! sense· namely that it is the angelic Word. "

412ge. It is sufficient to know that thc arcalla of this process are here contained in the interna! sense, ,md indeed such great anl1 wonùerflll ones, th:ü they cannot be fully exponnùed to the apprehension as to the thon­sandth part. '

42340. Still, these things are to be statcd, because otherwise the Word cannot be explicated as to the in. terna! sense. At the lelLst it lIlay thence be evident what is the qllality of angelic wisdom ; for the internai sense of the Word is principally for the Angels.

42792. The supremc sense of the Word, in which it trcats of the Lord 'is for the Thirel Heaven . itsinternal sense, in which it: treats of the Lord's Ki~gdom, is for the Second Heaven; but the lower sense of the \Vord, in which the interna! sense is determined to that nation which is therc mentioned, is for the First Heaven; whereas the lowest or literai sense is for man while he still lives in the world, and who, nevertheless, is snch tha.t the interior sense can be communicated to him, and also the interna! a.nd the supreme sense; for man com­municates \Vith the tlu"ee Heavens . . .

42803. The Word as to the internaI sense cannot be known without the knowledge of correspondences. --. The internai man himself thinks no otherwisc;

for when the external man apprehcnds the \Vord accord· iug to the letter, thc internai man a.pprehends it ac­cOl'ding t.o" the interna! sense, although the man is nna.wa.re of it while he lives in the body. This may be especially evideut from the fact that when thc. man cOllles into the otller life, and becomes an Angel, hc kuows it as it were from himself, without instruction.

4307· For the interna! sense is alwa.ys circumstanced in application to the subject which is being treated of.

4387e. So thc interna! sense of the Word, which co­incides co::.npletely ,\Vith the ulliversallanguage in which are the Angels, or \Vith the spiritual speech of their thollght.

44023. Nevertheless, as it treats of these things in the interna! sense ... the opening of them cannot be dis­pensed with ; a time is about to come when there will be illustration.

4430" For in the internai sense, of the Word it trents solely of the things which arc of the Lord's KingdoOl, thus which are of His Church.

4453" In Heaven, where the \Vord is perceived ac­cOl'ding to the internai sense ...

44934• If a man of the Most Ancient Church haù read the historic or prophetie Ward, he would have seen its" interna! sense without previous instruction, or any explication; and this in such a manncr, that the celestial and spiritual things which are of the interna! sense wouId have at once occurred, and scarcely anything which is in the sense of the letter' thus the interna!

1sense would have been in cleame~s ta him, and the sense of the letter in obscurity; and he would have bcen as one who hears another speaking, and draws in on]y the sense, but docs not attend to the words of the speaker. But if ft man of the Anciellt Chm'ch had rend the \Yord, he would not hlLve been able to see its interna! sense without prcvious instruction or e'xplication; so th"t the interna! sense would have been in obscurity to him, and the sense of the letter in clearness. But when a lllnn of the J cwish Clnll:ch real!s the Word ... hc does no~ k~IOW tha~ there IS any l~ternal sense, ane\ also. d~l1les It. In hke manner at tlus day a man of the Clll'lstian Church.

4502. According to the proximate interna! sense. --,' Fo: w?rds ~nd nnme~ in the int~rnal .sense of

the \\ ord Slglllfy thmgs predlcably to thelr snbJcct. 45854. As snch things arc conlained in the internaI

sense of the Word, and they cannot be explic<'l.te.ù without adequate terms ...

4614. For the things which in the internaI sense signify anything of the Church, in the sllpreme seuse signify something of the Lord'g Divine ..•

4637'. The things which the Lord spoke in the pambles ... iu the internai form are such as to till the universal Heaven; for the internaI sense is in every single thing, which is such that its Spiritual and Cclestial diffuse themselves through the Heavens in every direction like light and f1ame. This sense is com· pletely ele\'ated from the sense of the letter, and flows from 0.11 the several expressions, and from 0.11 the severa.l words; na.y, from every jot.

4677e. Hence it is evident of what advantage anù im­portancc it is to know the interna! sense of the Word: withollt it, moreover, anyone cau confirm fI'om the \\"onl whatever dogma 116 pleases.

4726e. When the Word is opened as to the internai sense ... such as are in faith alone reject it ... a\thou~h celestial and spiritual things arc the very thiugs which would pleasantly afl'ect the interna! man, more than worldly things do the external man.

4783. (The gonerals of the sense of the letter) have no light except from the interna! sense; for the interna! sense is in the light of Heaven, because it is the Word to the Angels; whereas the sense of ,tlie letter is in the light of the world, bccause it is the Word to men before they come into the light of Heaven from the Lord •..

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Henee it is evident that the sense of the letter is of service to the simple for initiation into the internaI sense.

4814", For the 'Vor1dly whieh is of the sense of the letter is turned into the Spiritual whieh is of the internaI sense,

4842", For the internaI or spiritual sense of the Word is universal, and does not distinguish the tribes as does the external or historical·sense.

4857". The spiritual sense livcs in the literai sense as does the spirit of a man in his body; and the spiritual sense also survives when the literaI sense p""ishes. Hence the internaI sense may be called the soul of the Word,

48642, For the internaI sense cares nothing about the Ilistoricals of any nation ;. but onl)' for its quality as to those things which are of the Church.

48682 , Ali those conjoin themseh'es with internaI truth as with a har1ot, who believe in the. , , literaI sense of the Word only, and utterly reject all its in· ternaI, that is, its spiritual, sense. , , But not the)' who do indeed believe the literaI sense of the Ward in sim· plicity, but still live accOl'ding ta the things which are of the internaI sense, namely, in love and chal'ityand the derivative faith; for these are of the internaI sense of the Ward, , ,For the internaI anù the external sense agree in these two precepts, namely, ta love the Lord above all things and the neighbour as ourselves,

4977, For in the internaI sense the thing is perceived as it is in itself; but in the sense of the letter the thing is set forth accordiug ta the appearance.

49872, The things which are in the internaI sense are in like manner continuous, and flowing from one state of the thing into another ; and when one state is ter­minated, and another succeeds which is a remarkable one, it is indicated by 'it was,' or 'it came ta pass;' and the change of astate which is less rcmarkable, by 'and.'

5084. The primaries for interpretation; namely, those which are of the Ward as ta the internaI sense. , ,

5095. The quality of the int.ernaI sense of the Word in the historicals and in the propheticals shall be stated in a few words. 'Vherc, in the historical sense, a number of persans arc mentioned, .. in the internaI sense they do indeed signify various things, but in one person only. Examp.. , Also in the Prophets, where sometimes the utterance is effeeted by mere names , , , they together present and describe one thing in the internaI sense.

5168", But as such things are in the internaI sense­for the things in the internaI sense are adapted to angelic wisdom-and as the Word is now being expli· cated as to the internaI sense, they are still to be stated, however remote they will appear from what is sensuous.

5202". The internaI sense of the Word treats of such things, anù thus is adapted to angelic wisdom; and when it inflows thence into the sense of the letter, it becomes adapted to human wisdom, and thereby in a hidden manner affects those who, from good, long to know t ths from the Wor(!.

52362. l!'odn the internaI sense of the Ward nothing but what is spiritual is meant •..

5247;. He who docs not know, and still more he who does not believe, that there is an internaI sense of the Ward, and that the sense of the letter is representative of the things which are in the internaI sense, will acknow· ledge scareely anything of what is holy in these thingB. Examps.

__6. The internaI sense is the spiritual sense, beeause it is from the things whieh are in Heaven. --. The internai and the external sense arc circum­

stanced as are the internaI and the extcrnal with man; and as the internaI is not without the external-,-for the extemai is the ultimate of order in which the internai subsists-therefore it was an affront to the \Yord ta cali Elisha bald ...

__7, The holiness whieh is in the Word does not appear ta the understanding, except ta him who knoll·s its internaI sense; nevertheless it appears to the appel" ception by influx From Heaven ta him who believes the Ward ta be holy. This influx is effected through the internai sense in which the Angels are; which sense, although not llnderstood b)' man, nevertheless affects him, beeause the affection of the Angels, who arc in that s.ense, is communicated to him.

52492, Therefore this Divine procGss has been fully descrihed in the internaI sense of the Word.

__o. Let them know that such are the things which are contained in the internaI sense of the Ward. Enum.

5253. There are three things which perish from the sense of the letter when it beeomes the internaI sense; namely, that which is of time, that which is of spacû, and that which is of person. The reason of this is •• ,

5307e, The internaI sense was to be of service more especially to the Angels.

5316", The Divine things which are in the internaI sense of the 'Vord affect the Angels ta such a degree, that, , •

5319", 'The white horse'=the internaI sense·<if the Word; hence 'white horses'=truths from the Divine; for ail things ('Jf the internaI sense of the Word are truths fl'om the Divine.

53983. How man, .. is regenerated, is contained in ... the internaI sense, to the intent especially that while the Ward is being read by man the Angels Illay be in their happiness of wisdom, and also at the samc time in the delight of being of service as media.

__o. lu this chapter and the following alles, .. in the supreme internaI sense it treats of the glorification of the Lord's Natural, and in the representative scnse of the regeneration of the Naturai with lllan .. ,

54342. Because in the internaI sense ail things are abstr.acted from persons.

54712. In the seuse of the letter it (here) treats of a number ... but in the internaI sense it treats of these in one suhject . . .

5492. To which the internaI sense serves (in the Inmost Heaven) as a plane.

5585". From these and many other passages the in. ternaI sense is evident, \'ibich stands forth here and there, and is found by him who searcbes.

5597". For a quality on earth, in the internaI sense is a quality in Heaven.

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[A.] 56142. The interiOl' thought itself of a man who is hold down the mind in the literaI sense, and thus in good apprehends this, because it is in the internaI rernove it l'rom the internaI sense; and the more so as sense, although the man is deeply ignorant of it while the internaI sense dift"ers altogether from the literai; Ile is in the body; for the internaI sense, that is, the for the former treats of spiritual and eelestial things, spiritual sense, falls, without his knowing it, into and the latter of worldly and earthly ones. But that material and sensuous ideas ... the internaI sense is such as has been expounded, is

__3. That the thought of a man who is in good is evident from aH the several things which have been according to the internaI sense, may be evident from explicated; and chiefly from the fact that it has been the fact that after death, when he comes into Heaven, dictated to me from Heaven. without any information he is at once in the internaI 6653". As with 'people,' 50 with other denominations : sense ... The reason why he is in that sense is that in the internaI sense they=things which are inter­there is a correspondence between spiritual and natural minate. Examps. things ...

6716', As the things which are in the supreme sense, 562013. That the internaI sense is not (delightful), is which ail treat of the Lord, surpass the human undcr­

signified by 'the bitter taste;' for this sense discloses standing, we may expound •.. the things which in the interiors of man. this chapter are coutained in the internaI sense.

__14. WheI"eas in the internaI sense (of the OId 1 6774. Wheu the Word is caUed 'a well, , it= the Word Testament) aU things are written about the Lord. as to the literaI sense; and when 'a fountain,' it=the

56482. How the case is with the internaI sense shaH Word as to the internaI sense. be stated in a few words. The internaI sense of the 6827. As the inmost or supreme sense of the WordWord is especiaUy for those who are in the other life. transcends the human understanding, we may explicate '''hen they who are there are with a man who is reading the Word as to its internaI sense, in which it treats ofthe Word, they perceive it according to the internaI the Lord's Kingdom and of the Chnrch, and of its sense. Ex. establishment; and also of the regcneration of man by

__3, Now as the internaI sense of the 'Vord is the Lord. The reason these things are treated of in theespecially for those who are in the Spiritual World, , internaI sense, is that the regeneration of man is atherefore sllch things are here related in the internaI representative image of the glorification of the Lord.sense as are for thern, and as are pleasant and delightful

6914. For the internaI sense sets forth things as theyto thern. But the more interior such things are, so are; not such as they are presented in the letter; andmllch the more remote are they l'rom the apprehension of applies each single thing to the subject.those men to whom the things of the world and the body

__2. For the internaI sense involves such things asare alone pleasant and delightful; and when this is the take place with Angels and Spirits. case, the spiritual things which are of the internaI sense

they hold as vile, and also loathe them. Let everyone 6929. When the Spirits of Mercury were with me examine himself as to whether the things eontained in \\'hile 1 was writing and explicatiug the IVord as to its the internaI sense (here) are valueless and loathsome to , internaI sense ... they said the things 1 was writing him •.. \Vere very gross . . •

56494. The things related here in the internaI sense, 6970. The internaI sense does not treat of \Vorldly come forth actuaHy so in the other life ... things ... but of spiritual things.

5660. But the internaI sense does not remain in the 7050. These arcana can never be known without the historical sense of the letter ... but in the thing itself ' internaI sense. which is being treated of ..• 7089. By the Divine Law which Moses represents, is

5882. Therefore in the internaI sense the contninant meant the Word snch as it is in its internaI sense, thus is no\\' signified, and now the thing contained, according such as it is in the Heavens; but by doctrine is meant to the series of the things. , the '''ord such as it is in its literaI sense, thus such as

it is on earth. How much they differ, shown by examps.6361°. Hence it may he manifestly evident that there is an internaI sense of the 'Vord, which does not appear 7231°. in the letter, nor to anyone, unless he knows the cor· 71272. Sueh things l'rom the Word as are ruost general respondences of natural things with spiritual; and, of aH ... without the internaI sense can be turned to which does not appear at aH to him who does not kno\\' favour any opinion. what the Spiritual is, and what the Celestial. 6381. 7153. These, then, are the things which are eontained 6415. 6438. in these verses in the internaI sense, which before man

63774• For in the internaI sense the things cohere, may perhaps appear as of little moment, and also as1

but not in the external sense ... scattcred; but still each single thing is essential to the subject which is treated of, and is most beautifully65342. 'To ride upon the clouds'=to he in the in­coherent ...ternaI sense, where truth is in its intelligence and

wisdom. 7194". In these historicals, 'Jehovah' is mentioned on account of thé internaI sense ...

6597. The internaI sense of the things in Genesis has no\\' been treated of; hut as in this book all things are 7233'. Any doctrinal thing whatever call be hatched historical ... it ean scareely appear that what has been from the sense of the letter of the Word .•. but not so cxpounded is the internaI sense; for historical things if what is doctrinal is formcd from the internaI sense.

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The internaI sense is not onIy that sense which lies hidden in the external sense •.. but also that which results from many passages of the sense of the letter rightly compared \Vith each otller ; and is apper­ceived by those who are illustrated by the Lord as to the understanding ...

7417°. In the supreme sense ea.eh and aU things treat of the Lord; and in the internai sense of His Kingdom and Ohurch.

78402. The men of the Internai Ohurch are those WilO qualify their good by interior truths, such as are those of the interna! sense of the Word; but the men of the External Ohurch are those who qualify their good by exterior truths, such as are those of the litcral sense.

79332• (This) involves the things which are in the internai sense of the Word; for it there tI-eats only of the Lord's Kingdom ; and in the supreme sense of the Lord Himself. Sig.

__3. (This) involves the things which have been foretold concerniug Him in the internai sense. In this sense each and aU things ... treat of the Lord •.. He who does not know that aU the several things ... in the internai sense treat of the Lord and His Kingdom •.•

8106'. The literai sense of the Word is called Ca cloud,' because the interna! sense, which is caUed Cgl ory,' cannot be comprehended by man unless he is regenerated, and is thcn illustrated. If the internai sense of the 'Word, or truth Divine in its glory, were to appear berore a man who has not been regenerated, it woula be like thick darkness ....

86942. Because each and aU things' in the Word in the internaI sense treat of the Lord and of His King­dom; and the Angels who are with man perceive the Word according to the interna! sense. This is com­municated to thc man who is in good, and is reading the Word ..•

8717. It is to be known that in the internai sense things are set for th such as they are in themselves .••

87812. In the internaI sense there is light like that of the sun above the elouds .•.

8899. The sense of the letter, or the cxternal sense, is for those w110 are in the world ; and the spiritual or internaI sense is for those who are in Heaven; and therefore both senses • • . are for those who while in the world are also in Heaven; that is, for those who are in the good of lire according to the truths of doctrine. 890217• 8912°.

8916. Trnth Divine, or the Word in the internai form, is its internaI sense ..•

89202. Truth Divine ••. in the Heavens is snch as is the internaI sense of the 'Nord ...

89282. Those who are of the Spiritual Ohnrch do not know, and do not want to know, that there is any interna! sense of the Word; and if perchance they shonld believe it, it would not be from any internai perception that it is so, but from persuasion from some other source.

89432• The Word is like a Divine man; its literai sense is as it were the body; and its internaI sense is as it were the sou1. Hence it is evident that the literai sense lives by means of the internaI sense.

--. lt appears as if the literai sense vanishes or dies throngh the internaI sense; but the contrary is the case ... it lives through the internai sense.

89713. Whence cornes the holiness of the Word, which inflows from Heaven, is evident from aU those things which have hitherto been stated and shown concerning the interna! sense of the Word; nameIy, that in the Word alone there is an internaI sense; and that this sense treats of the things which are of Heaven . .. and that inmostly it treats of the Lord alone, thus of holy things ... and that this sense is for the Angeis who are with man when he is reading the Word ...

8988°. By the internai sense, as by a key, are opened Divine truths snch as are in Heaven; consequently, Heaven and the Lord Himself, who is aU in all things of the Word in its inmost sense.

9022. Ho\\" everything coheres in the internaI sense, is evident (here).

90252. lt is to be known that the true doctrine of the Ohm'ch is that which is here called the internaI sense; for in the internaI sense are truths such as are with the Angels in Heaven.

__3. Tho reason is that the 'Nord in its ... literai sense is natnral, but in its internaI sense is spiritual ...

90262. (This) does not appear oxcept by means of the internaI sense, in which it treats of the trnths of the Ohurch from the Wordo

9030". (Scientific trnth) is from the literai sense of the Word; but (spiritual truth) is from the internaI sense of the 'Word, thus also from the genuine doctrine of faith of the Ohurch; for this doctrine is the doctrine of the interna! sense.

90312. When (the truth of the literai sense) is pre· sented in the light of Heaven, it then appears according to the internaI sense; for this sense is spiritual, and is fol' the heavenly man.

90342• The truth of the int.erna! sense of the Word is the same as the genuine truth of the doctrine of faith of the Chnrch.

90863• For the Angels do not apprehend the "lord naturaUy, according to the literai sense; but spiritually, according to the int.ernal sense. Men, too, would ap­prehend the Word according to this sense if they livet! an angelic life; that is, a lire of Faith and love. The things which are contained in the internaI sense of the Word are nothing else than those which the genuine doctrine of the Ohnrch teaches. The genuino doctrine of the Ohurch teaches the Lord, faith in Him, love to Him, and love of the good which is from Him; this love i~ charity towards the neighbour. They who live this life are illustrated by the Lord, and see the holy things of the 'Word ; and never any others.

9094. How the case is with the things contained in this verse in the internaI sense can with difficulty he explicated to the apprehension. They are snch as can be comprehended by the Angels, and in some measure by men. Ex.

__2. The things which the Angels see and think in the light of Heaven are ineffable ... When 1 have been elevated into tbat light 1 have seemed to myself to nnderstand aU the things which the Angels spoke there ;

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but when 1 have been let down into the light of the external man, aUtI in this light wanted to recollect the things which 1 had heard there, 1 could neither express them by words, nor comprehend them by ideas of though t, except a few things, and thesc fcw thin,,'S ill obscurity... Such are the things which lie inmostly hiddcn in the internaI sense of the Word. The case is the same \Vith the things which are contained in the internaI sense in this verse and the following one. The things which are there, and which can be explicated to the apprehension, are these ...

[A. 9094]". But these things are seel1 ta be Divine, evenin the sense of the Ictter, if they are at the same time looked at and explicated according ta the internaI sense; for in this sense each and ail things treat of thc Lord, of His Kingdom and Church; thus of Divine thin~s ...

9166e. From these things it is againevident how the Lorel spoke; namely, that in eacb and ail things there is an internaI sense, because it has been spoken from the Divine, thus for the Augels at the same time as for men; for the Angels perceive the Ward according ta its internai sense.

9186". In general, no one can apprehellli the internai sense of the Ward, thus neither the things of allgelic wisdom, except him who knows and understands that each and ail things in Heaven have relation ta good and truth, and that nothing cames forth there except from the one conjoined with the other ...

9200°. The case is the same with ail other things in the Word. ,Vhen theyare explicated according to the internaI sense they appear scattered; but with the Angels they are conjoined into one sense; nay, into olle idea.

9216e. Hence it is that in each thing of the Word there is an internai sense, which is for Heaven, and \Vhich is snch as to conjoin angelic minds with hUllIan minds in so close a bond that they act as one.

93492• For in each thing there is an internai Holy, \Vhich is its internai sense, or its heavenly and Divine sense. This sense is the soul of the Word, and is the Divine truth itself proceeding from the Lord, thus the Lord Himself.

9370. It treats (in Ex.xxiv.) of the Word which has been given by the Lord,-of its qnality, that it is Divine in both senses, internaI and external ...

93724• That the Word in the letter ..• is as it were rllde and obscure, but in the internai sense is soft and resplendent. Sig. _~6. That the 'Nord in the internaI sense, or such

as it is in Hcaven, is in a degree above the Word in the external sense ... Sig. ­

9375. When by 'Aaron' is signified the Word, by his sons is signified doctrine; by the eider, doctrine from the internaI sense of the Worù; and by the younger, doctrine from its extcrnal sense. The doctrine from the internaI sense of the ,Yord, and the doctrine from thc external sense of the Word, are one doctrine; for they who are in the internai are also in the external .•.

93802. The case is the same with those who remain in the literaI sense of the Word alone, anù collect nothing

doctrinal tÎlence; for they are Repal'ateù t'rom the internaI sense, and the internaI sense is what is doctrinal itself. The conjullction of the Lord with thc externals of the Word is through ita interiors; alld therefore if the interiors are sepal-ated, there is no <)ther conjullctioll of the Lord \Vith the ~xternals than there is with the gesture of the body without any concordant heart.

9403. The l'lord in its internaI and external sense, and doctrinc from both. Sig.

9405'. The internai sense is calicd 'glory' because it is in the light of Heaven. Refs. Moreover in the internaI sense of the Word it treats of the Lord alone, and of His Kingdom and Church. Hence the Holy of the Word; and hence the advent and presence of the Lord with those who, when theyare reading the Word, keep in view Him aud the ncighbonr ...

9406". That at the presence of the Lord the internaI sense appears such as it is in Heaven, in its glory. Sig.

94°7. The quality of the literai sense of the Word when the internaI sense is apperccived in it. Sig.

__J. When the sense of the lettc!' of the Word iR heing read by man, it ia neither heard nor apperceivc,l in Heaven, but only the internai sense ... Thus does one sense pass iuto the othe1', because they correspond.

9409". From the doctrine (of love and charity) the internaI sense of the Word is known, because the internaI sense of the Word is the doctrine itsclf of Iovo to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour. Sig.

9424". It is to be- krtown that the internaI sense of the Word contains the genuine doctrine of the Church.

9430. "Yhereas the internaI sense is for man wheu he 1 cornes into Heaven. BlIt it is to be known that wheu 1 man is in the world he is simultaneously in the internai sense of the Word when he is in the gennine doctrine of the Church as to faith and as to life; 'f6r by meanS of this doctrine the internaI sense of the Word is thell inscribed on both his understanding and his will ..• When such a man cornes into Hea.ven, he apprehcnds the Word no otherwise_than according to its internaI sense .•.

95032. For the Word in the supreme sense treat.~ of the Lord alone ; and hence in the internaI sense testifies coneerning Him; that is, teaches Him, and the trnths which are of faith and the goods which are of love, which are from Him. Sig.

100332• That 'a horse'=the internaI sense of the Word. Refs.

101332. From thcse things it may be evident how pure is the l'lord in the internaI sense.

102152. For in Heaven these words are perceive<1 according to the internaI sense. Sig.

10216. Because the internai sense of the Word is snch as is its sense in the Heavens.

10232. For the internaI sense does not regard the sense of the words in the way in which it coheres in the letter, but in the \Vay in which it coheres in its own sense •.•

102768. He who is intelligent may know from these things that the Worù is most holy; and that its literaI

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sense is holy from its internaI sense; but that separate from it it is not holy ... --. Doctrine itself l'rom the Word must give light

bcforehand, and must teach. The internaI sense teaches this doctrine itself; and he who knows this doctrine has the interna! sense of the Word.

1°322. 'What is from the Divine descends through the Heavens down to man ... Therefore in the Word there is an internaI sense, which is spiritual, for the Angels; and an external sense, which is natural, for men. Hence it is that the conjunction of Heaven with man is through the ","ord.

104003. The doctrine which must be for a lamp (to Imow the Divine truths of the Word in the sense of the letter) is that which the internaI sense teaches; thus it is the internaI sense itself, which is in sorne measurê evident to everyone ... to whom the internai man is open, althongh he does not know what the internai sense is; for Heaven, which is in the internai sense of the Word, inflows with that man when he is reading the Word, illnstrates him, and gives him perception, and thus toaehes him; nay ... the internai man with a man is from himself in the internai sense of the Word, beeanse it is a Heaven in the least effigy, and thereforc when it is open is with the Angels in Heaven ...

__0. Henee it is evident that the man whose in­ternai has been opened is in the internaI sense of the Word, although he is unaware of it; and hence he has illustration when he is reading the Wonl, but according to the light which he is able to have by means of the Knowledges which are with him. 10402°.

10453. The external and the internai sense of the Word l'rom the Divine. Sig.. . 'The tables' ... here, =the external of the Word; and .•. 'the writing'= the internai of the Word. Ex.

106032. For the internaI sense remained, and the external sense was changed. The internaI sense is signified by J ehovah writing on these tables the same words as were upon the former ones.

106142. In the Word there is an external sense, an internaI sense, and an inmost sense. The "Vord in its extel'llal sense is snch as it appears in the letter; this sense is natural, becanse it is accommodated to the apprehension of men; for men think naturally. But the Word in the internai sense is spiritual, because it is aeeommodated to the understandiDg of the Angels in the Lord's Spiritual Kingdom; for these Angels thillk spiritually. And the Word in the inmost sense is celestial, because it is accommodated to the perception of the Angels in the Lord's Celestial Kingdom; for the Angels there think super-spiritually. As the Word is such, it follows that the one is in the other in the like order ; the inmost in the internai, and the internai iD the externa1. Hence the connection of ail things; and the influx according to the eonnection; and the con­sequent subsistence of the one from the other .•.

10687. The Word is written by mere correspondences, and hence is sueh as to eonjoin Heaven with man; for Heaven is in the internai sense of the Word, and the external sense corresponds to the internaI sense; and therefore when the Wonl is being read by man, the Angels who are with the man perceive it in the spiritual

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sense, which is the internaI sense, and hence what is holy inflows from the Angels, through which there is conjunction. For this end such a Word has been given.

106912. The internaI sense is eontinually shining forth and sparkling in the external sense, but it is not perceived by any others than those who are in internai things. It is not perceived by those who are in an external in which there is an internai, who are those called men of the External Church; but still it is pre­sent, unknown to them, anel affects them.

__e. The reason the internai sense shines, is that therein is Divine truth such as is in the Heavens ...

@ 1 (e). That in each and ail things of the Word there is an internaI or spiritual sense. Refs.

__:1. That at the end of the Church, when there would no longer be love and ... faith, the Lord would open the Word as to its internai sense. Sig.

1500. For the internaI or spiritual sense of the "\Vord is altogether according to the things which are in Heaven.

254. As the words (of the Word) came forth from the Lord immediately, eaeh of thern is infilled with what is Divine, and contains within it an internaI sense, which is sueh that the Angels of Heaven perceive those worels in a celestial and spiritual sense, when men perccive them in a natural sense. Thus· has the Lord conjoined Heaven and the world by means of the Wordo

3070. The internaI sense of the Word is its soul, and the sense of the letter is its body.

3100. Unless a man knows (something about the spiritual though t and speech of the Angels) he cannot know at ail what the internaI sense is •.. If man knew that there is such a sense, and would think from sorne knowledge of it when he is reading the Word, he would come into interior wisdom j and wouId be still more conjoined with Heaven, becanse he would thereby enter into ideas like the angelic ones.

5260. (The Word in Heaven) is the internaI sense of the Word which is in the world.

Œ258. That in the Word there is a spiritual sense, whICh is caUed tlie internaI sense. Refs. to passages. W.H·9·

259. That the internaI sense is especially for the Angels; and that it is also for men. Refs. to passages. W.H.lo. --'. That a man who has been regenerated is

actually in the internaI sense of the Word, although he is unaware of it . . . Ref.

G 412. Therefore no word can be wanting without the series of things in the internai sense suffering a chang~ Sig. ~. f 12• 'Heaven open'=that the internaI sense

of e 'lord is seen in Heaven, and thence is seen by those in the world to whom Heaven has been opened.

__2. That no one sees the quality of the Word in the internaI sense except the Lord, and he to whom He reveals it. Sig.

__3. (Hence) it is evident that it is here foretold that about the last time of the Church the spiritual or internaI sense of the Word would he opened. But the

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things which would then happen are described in (these) verses.

6. On the Word and its spiritual or internaI sense, from the Arcana Cœlestia. Refs. to passages.

102. That Spirits also perceive the 'Vord in the in­ternaI sense, in so far as their interiors are open into Heaven. Ref.

II. Tbat in the internaI or spiritual sense of the 'Vord there are innumerable arcana. Refs. to passages.

__3. That the internai sense is the genuine doctrine itself of the Church. Refs.

S. 4. Lest man should be in doubt that the Word is su ,the internaI sense of the 'Vord has ùeen revealed to me by the Lord, which in its essence is spiritual, anù which is in the external sense, whicb is natural, as the soul is in the body. That sense is the Spirit which vivifies the letter. And therefore that sense is able to bear \Vitness concerning the divinity and holiness of the Vlord, and to convince even the natural man, if he wants to be convinced.

(E 314. 'In the midst'=the Word as to the internai spmtual sense, which the Lord guards. 316. E.375.

D. 4130. For years evil Spirits continually labonred t estroy the tbings of the interior sense of the Word.

4131. Spirits and Angels can never of themseives tind out the interior sense of the Wordo

4331. The Jews with me did not perceive the interna! sense of the ,yord ...

4413. (Paul) \Vas insensible to the interna! sense of the Word ...

4760·. His purpose was ... by means of the literaI sense to destroy the internaI sense.

4824. That the Epistles of Paul have not an interna! sense ..•

4841. On the internaI sense of the Word, that it is apprehended by few.

5561•. (In Heaven) they have the Word [written] in like manner ; some according to its interna! sense ; and sorne according to its external sense, but still a more spiritual one.

5604. The Spiritual Angels have the sense (of the 'Vord) iutermediate between the interna! and the ex­ternal; the interior spiritual ones have it altogether according to the interna! sense; and the celestial ones according to the inmost sense.

5613. 1 read in the Word, and they who are in Heaven pcrceived aIl things c!early according to the interna sense.

@tliM~. 4666. Hence it may be evident how the case i8 WI le interna! sense of the Word .•.

4736. Sometimes ... the learned were present when 1 was writing the things which are coucerniug the interna! sense of the Word, and what is obscure at once intervened ..•

E. 17. The Angels see on!y the interna! sense; and as ley see it in the !ight of Heaven, they see it in such a series, and in such connection, aud also in such abundanee, and thencc in such wisdom, as cannot be expressed in human words .••

36'. 'The coming of the Lord then' is the revelation of Himself, and of the Divine truth which is from Him, in the Word through the interna! sense. The Lord does not reveal Himself èlsewhere than in the Word, nor otherwise therein than throngh the interna! sense. 'Power and glory' also=the 'Word in the interna! sense.

644• 'The garments' of the Lord which they divided =the Word in the letter; and His 'tunic,' the 'Yord in the interna! sense. 3756•

294'°. The internaI or spiritual sense of the Word as to good is meant by 'His habitation.'

32613. The (Celestial) Angels draw the interna! sense of the Word from the affection alone of man when he is reading the Word, which results also from the sound

-of the words in the Original Language; but the (spirit­ual) Angels draw the interna! sense from the truths which the words contain. Hence, from the Celestial Kingdom, the man who is in spiritual affection has joy of heal't; and from the Spiritual Kingdom, confession from that joy.

3754• 'Oil and wine' = the in terior goods whioh are of the interna! or spiritual sense of the 'IVordo

__G. As sueh a lot awaits those who profane the interior goods and truths of Heaven and the Church, the internaI or spiritual sense of the ,Yord, in which these are contained, \l'as not opcned to the J ews ... and therefore lleither has it been opened to Chris­

, tians ... __6. But the reason the interna! or spÜ'itual sense

of the Word is at this day openeù, is that the Last Judgment has beeu accomplished, and thence aIl things in the Heavens and in the Hells have been rednced into order; and thus it can be provided hy.the Lord that profanations should not come forth. Sig.

435', In the inmost sense is the Lord alone; for it treats of Him, of the glorification of His Humau, of the ordination of the Heavens, the subjugation of the HeUs, and the establishment of the Church by Him ... But in the internaI sense it treats of Heaven and the Chureh, and doctrine is delivered. And the Word in the external sense is snch as it is in the sense of the letter. The reason there are three senses in the W ord, is that there are three Heavens. The inmost or celes­tial sense is for the Inmost or Third Heaven ; the in­terna! or spiritual sense i8 for the :Midclle' or Second Heaven ; and the external or spiritual natural sense is for the First or Ultimate Heaven.

5943• His manifestation in the Word has been effeeted by His having opened and revealed the interna! or spiritual sense of the Word; for in this sense there is Divine truth such as there is in Heaven; and the Divine truth in Heaven is the Lord Himself there.

614. That the Word in the sense of the letter was delightful; but in the interna! sense, in which are truths .tbemselves, undeIightfuI. Sig.

6182• The interiors of the Word are the things whieh its internai or spiritual sense contains. These truths are genuine truths. To these correspond the exterior truths of the Word, whieh are those . _ . in its external or llatural sense, whioh is caUed the sense of the letter aud the literai sense. When the exteriors of the Word

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.. are falsified and adulterated, the interior truths of the 'Word are falsified and adulterateù ; and therefore when a man applies the Word in the sense of the letter to the evils of earthly loves, it then becomes undelight­fui to the Angels who are in the internaI or spiritual sense of the Wordo Sig.

6413. It has pleased the Lord lIOW to reveal many arcana of Heaven, especially the internai or spiritual sense of the ,Vord ... which revelation is meant by 'the coming of the Lord' ... The reason of the revela­tion at the end of the Church is ... that by it there may be elfccted a separation of the good from the evil, and also the establishment of the New Church, and this not only in the natural world ... but also in the Spiritual World ...

7592• As (the dragonists) seduce the simple, it 11as bcen given to thc men of the New Church ... to view the Divine truths in the 'Nord not sensuously ... but spiritually ... and therefore the internaI sense of thc Word has been disclosed, which is spiritual, and is solely for those who will be of that Church. From this sense Divine truth appears such as it is in its own spiritual light, and from this light such as it is in its naturallight •..

106r. This is the natural sense from the spiritnal, which is ealled the internaI sense, and also the spiritual natural sense.

1065". In order that they may know that the Word is Divine ... as to every word, its interna.l sense has been rcvealed, which is spiritual; and which is in its external sense, which is natural, as the soul is in its body .•.

InternaI truth. Verum internum. A. 3819. 'Rachel' = the a.ffection of internaI truth

with its quality. --. Man is first affected with extel'llal truths, and

afterwards with interna.l truths; for external truths are the planes of internaI truths, being the generals into which singulars are insinnated ..•

38482• The conjnnetion of good with the affection of interna.l truth ...

3906. They who are beillg regenera.ted learn to know what interna.l truth is; but at tirst they do not acknow­ledgc it with such faith as to live accordillg to it; for internai truths a.re conjoined with spiritual affection, which cannot infiow until external truths have been adapted to correspondence with internaI truths. Examp.

48612. Unless external truths are illustrated by in­terna.l truths; that is, by those which are of the internai sense; they present falsities with those who are in evil.

48682. Ail those eonjoin themselves with interna.l truth as with a harlot who believe in the ... iiteral sense of the 'Nord alone . .. 48742. .

72912. For the Divine Law is internai truth, and doctrine is external trnth ; and it is a general l'nie that internai things infiow into external ones ..•

8337. For Moses represents the trnth of fa.ith which proceeds immediatcly from the Lord, thus internai truth; bnt Aaron the truth of faith which proceeds mediately from the Lord, thns external trnth. Refs.

8357. 'A statute'=the external truth of the Church ; 'a judgment' = the interna.l truth of the Church.

8362. 'Precepts' =the interna.l truths of the Word. 8793. The ten precepts promulgated on nlount Sinai

are internaI truths; and the laws and statutes which are commanded in the following chapters arc external truths. (In both the latter and thc former the Lord must reigu as to His Divine Human. 88643.)

92127. Thc Chureh at this day is in the internaI truths which were represented; for the Lord has revealed these truths. That these truths do not agree with external ones so as to be together. Sig.

9407. Translllcent there from interna.l truths. Sig. and Ex.

9474. The interna.l truths which are of the inaugurat­ing good. Sig. and Ex.

99603. To deprive of the internaI truths of the Chllrch. Sig.

10252". 'Frallkincense' = internai trllth; and' myrrh' = external truth; both from good.

Internecine. See DEADLY.

Interpolate. Interpolare. A. 1978. Spirits by whom they are often interrupted.

H. 2492• Religious things ... when man does not interpola.te varions things which are of use ... (make men) visionaries and enthusiasts.

266:1• The thoughts of the Angels ... are not inter· polated by any cares .••

P. 2961°. Besides undelightflll things which interrupt.

R. 804. The Babylonians who had interrupted the influx ...

83913. The Armagedonni wanted to interrupt our discourse.

M. 160". According to the intruding cares.�

256". Not interrupted by cares.�

4752. Conjugial love ... is then only interrupted;� and love interrupted, and not separate.d, remains in the subject.

T. 61. When what is undelightflll intrudes ...

D. 5379. The Angels complained that they were in. terrupted in their thoughts about the Lord •..

5392". They inducc a. sadness which interrupts their joys.

E. 11942. It is granted to interrupt works by various things ... which arc recreations.

J. (Post.) 241. He was intruded upon by thought about himself.

Interpose. bzterponerc. Interposition. Interpositio.

A. 8192. By the interposition of (the pillaI' of the cloud).

H. 2412. Except by the interposition of a word which begins with a vowel.

W. 4194. Meanwhile there is as it were a veil inter. posed ...

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theÎl' essence evils and falsities, although before those who are merely natnral and sensuous they appear as goods and trnths, becausc their goods are pleasures and.delights springing from the loves of self and of the world, and their truths al'e those thiugs whieh favour these goods .••

8'1712• 'He-goats,' in a good sense, = those who arc in natural good, and thellee in truths. Ill. --. NatUl'al goods and truths are with those who

live weil aeeol'lling to truths from natllral a/fection.

Natural Heaven. Coelum Na/urate. H. 31. Sec CBLESTUL N.HUIL-I.J., here. T. 1952. Sec N.\TUH.H KIKGDO)!, here. E. 798<. As those who eonfirm with themselves in

doctrine and life that faith prodllees good 1I"0rks as a tree does frnits, look from faith to good, they have con­jllnetion with Heaven , .. bllt with the Natural Heaven, whieh is in ultimates, and is called the entranee. The reason they eannot be adlllitted more interiorly, is that before it becomes charity in form faith is Ilatmai ; and ",hat is natural eannot produee al1ything but what is natma!. (Continned under NATUl:.\L.)

Natural History. lVa/umlis Ms/oria. D.lIfit1.4730.

Natural Kingdom. Reglllll1t Natltra/e. A. 2758. For the natural kingdom derives ail its

origin from the spiritual kingdoru. 4104". Enry Illan ... may know that he is in two

kingdoms: a spiritual kingdolll, and il natural kingdolll ; also that the spiritual kiugdom is interior, and the natural kingdom cxterior, an,l eonse'lllCntly that he can prefer the one to the other Bllt when he has the natmal kingdoDl as the end he then extiuguishes those things which are of love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour, and \\'hich arc of faith ... and makes the love of the world and of self ... e\·er.rthiug.

54060. 'Egypt,' in the representative sense, is the llatural kingdom . . •

T. 1952• The Angels of the Lord's natural kingdolU, l'rom whom is the ]'irst or lowest Hea\"Cn, arc in the Divine whieh proeeeds from the Lord whièll is called the Divine Natllml, and arc in the faitlI of charity from the Lord.

212. The lowest Heavell makes the Lol'll's natural kingdom.

De Verbo 24. The intelligcnce of the Angeb of the Spiritual Kil1gdolll is inefl'able and ineomprehensible to those who arc in the naturalldngdom ...

Natural Philosophy. Philosopha lIa/u/'­alis. D.2299. 2301.

Natural Sense. SensltS 7la/uralù. See SBI'SI; of LETn:l:.

. . ..(~466.. The "ord.1I1 the n~tural ~en~e, ~\·.llICh also 1~1lI HWI, thus HIS and Hnnself, IS slgmfiecl by' a cloud.' "

468. As the natura! sense of the Word supports Its s~~ual and celestial sellse. \,J;,' 297· (The natural sense of the Comlllandments

gi"cn.) 30r. 305. 309. 321. ,"OL. IV.

The natural sense whieh is the sense of the letter. 301. 305.

321. ln a wider natural sense ...� __Co ln the widest natural sense.�

~ 700·. 'The foot-stool to whieh they shall bo\\" themselves' = the natura! sense of the 'Vord; and thenee also the Chureh on earth, beeause this is in this sense.

778". By 'the Son of Man' is meant Divine truth suell as it is on earth; thus the Word sueh as it is in the natura! seuse; for this is Divine truth on earth... 'A word against the Son of Man' = to interpret the natural sense of the Word, whieh is the sense of it, letter, aeeordiug to appearanees.

7908. Bnt truths in a natmal form arc sueh as arc in the IVord in the natural sense.

955. For in the natural sense of the Word there arc glory alld virtne from its spiritual sense; that is, light and power; but not \vithout that sense. Ex.

1061. The reason the Angel did not explaill the l'Îsion in tlle natural sense from the spiritual, is that the explication also makes the Word in the letter, anel the Word in the letter must be natural ... otherwise the '" ord woulrI not serve the Heavens us a basis. --. This is the natural sense l'rom the spiritual,

whieh is calicd the internai sense, and also the spi.ritual natural sense.

De Verbo 2. When the Wonl is being read bya mali who 10 s it holy, its natural sense becomes spirituaJ in the'Second Hcaven, and eelestial in the Third; thus \"hat is natmal is suecessively put off ... The natural sense of the Word is such as is in the sense of the letter, the whole of whieh beeomes spiritual, and thcn celestial, in the Heavens ...

5. Coneerning the spiritual sensc of the Word, alld eoncel'lling its natura! sense. Gen.art.

18". The spiritual sense without ifs attendant natUl·al sense is not eommunicateù with Heaven. The reasolJ is that the Lord infio\\'s from primcs through ultimates, tberefore from Himself into the natural sense of the \\Tord, and calls forth or cvolves thence its spiritual and celestial sense, alld thus illustrating teaches and lcads the Angels ... From these things it is evident that unless the doctrine of the Chureh has béen collecte,! and confirmcd from the seuse of the letter of the Word, it does not avaii, beeause it does not communieate; but doctrine from the sense of the letter, and together with it.

19. The quality of the natural sense withont the spiritual and celestial senses, and conversely. Gen.art.

--\ The Word ill the sense of the letter may be comparcd to a tree ... If there were the sense of the letter alone, and not at the salUe time the spiritual and celestiaJ senses, it would be like a tI'ee withont sap, IHLY, like the bark alone withoLlt the wood, whereas with

1 these senses it is a tree in its perfect st~te. lu it also ail the sap passes through the bark or cortex, and there­fore whcn it is taken away the trce ùries up. So would the spiritual sense of the Word withollt its natural

, sense.

Relative 493 Religion

,Ad. 1027". For there to be anything there must be wbat is relative to_contraries. 1151".�

. D.Min. 4750. AlI things are relatives ; and without� the' perception of contraries there are no relatives ...�

Relative. R~spedivus.

Relatively. Respective.� A. 1582. Right and left are merely relative ..

19002. Regard each other relatively aR ...

2157. The deference of the Lord's state. Sig. anù Ex. 21 58.

5313". Significations are circnmstanced relatively. 10265. Everything in the Word'is to be understood

rela.tively to that of which it is said. T. 31. The infinity of God relatively to spaces .•.

and relatively to times .••

447. The rela.tive state of the spirit of man .. ;

Relative se s Sensus respect.iJJJis. 42Ô7. Occurs. 4428. 45852. 4981. 6363. j .121.

~305. 344· 390.

Relax. See under LoosE-laxare.

Release. Manumittere, Manumùsio. M. 2673• When such become Spirits, a.nd are thus set

free ...

370". The concubines and wives are there released.

T. 434. The release of the-imprisoned thoughts.

815. Peoples not set fr~e.iJ.fe like .•.

Relegate. Re/egare. A. 5881". They had relegated internai good to ...

6762". Are relegated into the Hells. 90132.

H. 5632. They were banished wherever tbey came.

W. 692. He relega.tes its fallacies to the sidcs. '

D. 4892. Sorne of th-em were relegated to the He11s.

E. 8933• People are not now banished from Christian communities ; .. for no one can be banished who lives w,e11.

Religion. Re/igio.� Religious. Religiosus.�

See RELIGIOSITY.

A. 1063. Make faith separated the principal of re· ligion.

, 1124". '(Origin of the religion concerning beards.)

1169. They placed religion in possessing Knowledges. Sig. 1171. ,

1177. That such a religion prevailed in the, Church. Sig.

1178. Men are easily captivated by'such a religion. Sig. 1179. , 1992". The Jews also were in this religion: that a11 !,vil is from God . . .

20532. The truths of consciencc are according to each person's religion.

2284'. ,People arc saved from evoi-yreligion, provided P.2532.

4733. It is not to be extinguished because a li!'e 01 religion. Sig. and Ex. --. The, acknowledgment and adoration of the

Lord's Divine Human is the life of religion. Ex.

50322. Those who do good from nature,- but not l'rom religion. Tl'. and Ex.

511713. That everyone [who is] with others who are in a different doctrine and religion, may leal'll and accept their goods of charity, but not imbne them and conjoin them with his own truths. Sig.

60472. For thus the doctrinals of a11 Churches and religions might be ca11ed true ...

8318". The principles of a false religion (one <if the origins of evil).

89417, That religion is to be formed l'rom truths from the Lord ..• and not from Own intelligence. Sig.

8998. Marriages on earth betlveen those who are of a diverse religion, are in Heaven accounted as heiuous ... Ex. ' , '

94686. 'Babylon'=a religion by which are proraned the holy things of the Word . .. '

H. 249". Those who think much about religious things, and inhere in thern 50 far as to see them within themselves, begin to he,u' Spirits speaking to thern; for religious things ••. when a' inan inheres in them b,)' himself, and does not interrupt them by various things which are of use in the world, penetrate interiorly, and there stay, and occupy the whole spirit of the man, and enter thé Spiritual World, and move the Spirits who are there ...

318~. The Lord has provided that aH may have religion, and by it acknowledgment of the Divine, and interiOl' life; for to live according to what is religious is, to.live interiorly. Ex.

319. The fil:st ,and prirnary thing of every religion is to' acknowledge the Divine :.1\ religion which does not acknowledge the Divine is not a religion; and the pre· capts ofevery religion' have respect to worship ...

__2. He who does no evil to his néighbollr becallse it is contrary to religion, thus contrary to the Divine, abstains, l'rom a spiritual origin, from doing evil ...

378. Conjugiallove is not possible between two who are of a diverse 'religion, becausc the truth of the' one does not agree with the good of the othel' ... - - ­

5142. 'l'hose' of the'Mohammedan religion who had led a moral !ife . . . are instructed in the Christian religicrn; Behind these ... are the places of instruction for various gentiles who had lived a good 'life in 'con· forillity with thei!' religion ...

N. 216. (Refs. ti:> the subject of falsities of religion.)

J. 50. Religion separates the good Moham11ledans l'rom the Christian Heaven. --. Everyone's religion adheres to him there:

-5'4. Ali who have dominion as the cnd, a.nd religion as the means, are "Babylon.' ' , ,

69. 'Since religion makes the inmost of man, , .

ç. J.'49. 'The,Dutch tnherc in the principles of t~_eir

religion_ more..firmly than others ... S. 92. For everyone is born into the religion of his

Representative' Church ~52B Representative, sense

'come forth, and thus sorne communication ,of the Lord the' Israclitish - nation, that is, a Church, in 'which with man, they had to be kept especill.lIy in', the iriternal things ... were represented bS external ones ... acknowledgment of Jehovah . . . 9457. What a Representative Church is, and why il

[A.] 4210. Sacrifices and burnt - offerings were the [existed]. 'Ex. principal things of all the worship of the subsequent '9458. 'The sons of Israel,' here, =thc Representative, Representative Church, that is; the Hebrew one. • . Church. Ex.

42812. The Church instituted with them was not a 9480. The resence the Lord.ilLtheJtepreaWative Church, but only the representative ~ Church, and Church. -Si«. and Ex. therefore that Chm'ch is called a Representative ~ch. '9525. The worship of the Re:p~esentative Church.

42882. It is' to be' known what a Representative Sig. and Ex. Church is,- alid what the, Representative of a Church. 9966. The laws of order in the Representative C'hurch. There is a Representative Church when thel'e is internaI Sig: and Ex. ' worshi in '!he external; but the Representative of a Church w en lere is no internaI wo'rship, but still 10276. The influx and presence of the Lord in the extetn'a1. There are in both almost the like external worship of the Representative Church. Sig. and Ex. rituals ••• but in a Representative Churèh the exter. __G. This (Representative) Church was instituted naIs correspond to the internaIs, so that they~' li. in Canaan especially on account of the Worù , .. one, whereas in the Representative of a: Church there is 10326. 1'he Representative Ohurch which was to he 110 èorrespoudence,: hecanse the externals are either instaurated with those in the good of love and good or ùevoid of internaIs, or disagree with thern. In a Repre. faith. TI'. sentative Church celestial and spiritual love is the 10632~. Hence that (Ancient) Church was calleù a principal thing; hut in the Representative of a Chnrch Representative Church. corporeal and worldly love ... The Ancient' Church was a Representative Church; but that instituted with H·306. Whence the Churches of that time were the descendants of Jacob was'only the Representative of called Representative Churches. a Church. (Examples of the worship in a Represent- S. 99. Al! the Churches before His advent were ative Church, enum. and ex., and how in tlle, Repre· Representative Churches; and therefore they could1

sentativ of a Church they became idolatrolls.) 4425. not see Divine truth exce})t in the shade. •• W.2332•

__o. In goneral, those of the Representative Church T.109.� communicated with the three Heavens as to their� interiOl's, '(or which the externals served as a plane;� D. 22.59. That a Representative Ohurch is the bod)'

of the Chureh. -­whereas those in the Representative V Chm'ch, qid not� communicate with the Heavens as to their interiors, E. 3242~. Hence tlle Chllrch (of the Israelites) is� but still the externals in which thoy were kept could called a Representative Church.� serve as a plane (for such communication). ' ,� 42220. The Church with (the Ancients in Canaan,�

42892, (The Israelites) lost ail the worship of the Syria; Assyria, Arabia, Ethiopia, Egypt, Cbaldea, Tyre,� Representative Church • ',' Sidon, and elsewhere) was a Representative Church. Ex.�

44893. Hence arose the Representative Church. ,871". But still there \Vas with (the Israelites) also a --. The Christian Chllrch, in its essence,' is the Representative Church ...

same as to e Intern~ as the Repres~tive .Qh!!rcl!; but the representatives, etc. 'of that Church P.P. Page 123. 11.11 the Chnrches up to the Lord's have been abrogated •.. advent were Representative Churches: they repre·

sented the Church, and, in the snpreme sense, the Lord.46802. The Ancient Church ... was a RepréSentative ... But the Representative Churches ceased when the Church. Ex. 48H4. 93918, Ex. 101771°. Lord came. , . Tbere were three remarkable changes of

4831. 'Tamar'=a Church Representative of spiritual the Representative Churches: the first, before the and celestial things ..• (See 4844. 4846.) 4856. 4866. Flood ..• the second, after the Flood ... and the thil'd,

4847. A Representative Church, such as was with the Israelitish .•. the Ancients, was to have been instituted with the Coro. 43. How the Representative Church with (the (Israeli tes) , • , Ancients) was turned into idolatry, Ex. , 4859.' The Jews regarded the internaI truths of the __0. On this aceount ... a new Representative

Representative Church no otherwise than as a harlot. Church was raised up with the sons of Israel, in which Sig. real representations were instituted ..•

7043. That a Representative Ohurch eould not be instituted with that nation. Sig. and Ex. 7048. Represe~tative se~e. Se1l!!:!- re.!.!:!!.e.

sen{attvus.7044. 'Zippora,h' = a Representative Church. Ex. 0347 r. The representative sense treats of regenera·

77794. (The Representative Church among the t.ion, and of the Chnrch., 3660°, 40632. 5398°.Egyptians ~ its fal! des.)

5730. The historical representative sense. 8886. In the Representative Church the Sabbath

was most holy ... Repress. Compescere. 9026°, A Representative Church'was 'ïnstitllted with A. 81 Ill3. Laws to reprellB violence •. •

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