AC 8861 - "And God spoke all these words, saying" (Exodus 20:1)

AC 8861
And God spake all these words, saying.
(Exodus 20:1)
. . . the things which God speaks
are nothing else than truths.
From this also truth Divine is called "the Word,"
and "the Word" is the Lord, according to John 1:1,
for the reason that when the Lord was in the world
He was the Divine truth itself,
and afterward when He was glorified
He became the Divine good,
and from that time forward
all Divine truth proceeds from Him.
This Divine truth is light to the angels,
which light is also that which illuminates our internal sight,
which is that of the understanding.

[2] As this sight does not see natural, but spiritual things,
it has for its objects in the spiritual understanding
the truths which are called the truths of faith;
but in the natural understanding
it has for its objects truths of the civil state
which relate to what is just,
and also truths of the moral state
which relate to what is reputable,
and lastly natural truths
which are conclusions from the objects of the external senses,
especially of the sight.
From all this it can be seen in what order truths follow,
and that all and each have their origin from truths Divine,
which are the internal beginnings of all things.
. . . for truth Divine is the highest essential,
and is the only substantial through which all things are.