Saturday, March 31, 2012

AC 2333 - reading the Word and "morning"

AC 2333 [2,3]
. . . when the ideas are kept in the sense of the letter,
the internal sense appears no otherwise
than as something obscure and dark;
but on the other hand when the ideas are kept in the internal sense,
the sense of the letter appears in like manner
obscure to the angels as nothing.
For the angels are no longer in worldly and corporeal things,
like those of man,
but in spiritual and celestial things,
into which the words of the sense of the letter are wonderfully changed,
when it ascends from a person who is reading the Word
to the sphere in which the angels are, that is, to heaven;
and this from the correspondence of spiritual things with worldly,
and of celestial things with corporeal.
This correspondence is most constant . . ..

. . . take as an example "morning" . . ..

The Rock of Israel He is as the light of the morning when the sun rises,
a morning without clouds.

(2 Samuel 23:3, 4)

Thus instead of "morning" the angels perceive the Lord, or His Kingdom,
or the heavenly things of love and charity;
and these in fact with variety
according to the series of things in the Word which is being read.

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