SS 96a - the Word is like a garden

SS 96a
The Word is like a garden,
a heavenly paradise,
that contains delicacies and delights of every kind,
delicacies in its fruits and delights in its flowers;
and in the midst of the garden
trees of life with fountains of living water near them,
while forest trees surround it.
The person
who from doctrine
is in Divine truths
is at its center where the trees of life are,
and is in the actual enjoyment of its delicacies and delights;
whereas the person
who is in truths not from doctrine,
but from the sense of the letter only,
is at the outskirts,
and sees nothing but the forest vegetation.
And one who is in the doctrine of a false religion,
and who has confirmed himself in its falsity,
is not even in the forest,
but is out beyond it
in a sandy plain where there is not even grass.