AE 406c - spiritual thought vs. natural thought

AE 406c [8]
Hear the word of Jehovah, ye nations,
and declare it in the islands afar off.
(Jeremiah 31:10).

. . .these words in a purely spiritual sense,
signify that the internal person shall teach the external,
or the spiritual the whole natural person,
the truths of the Word . . .
this pure sense, which is for angels,
is with difficulty perceived by people,
for it is with difficulty
that people can think abstractedly from persons and places,
for the reason that the thought of people is natural,
and natural thought differs from spiritual thought in this,
that it is tied down to places and persons
and is consequently more limited than the spiritual.
And this is why many things that have been explained
will perhaps with difficulty fall into the ideas of the thought of those
who keep the sight of the mind fixed on the sense of the words.