AC 10614, 10627 - the nature of the Word: "let the Lord go in the midst of us"

AC 10614 [2-3]
AC 10614 [2-3]
In the Word there is an external sense,
there is an internal sense,
and there is an inmost sense.
The Word in the external sense
is such as it appears in the letter;
this sense is natural,
because it has been accommodated
to the understanding of people,
for people think naturally.
But the Word in the internal sense is spiritual,
because it has been accommodated
to the understanding of the angels
in the Lord's spiritual kingdom,
for these angels think spiritually.
And the Word in the inmost sense is celestial,
because it has been accommodated
to the perception of the angels
in the Lord's celestial kingdom,
for the angels in this kingdom think super-spiritually.
The Word being of this nature,
it follows that one thing is in another in the like order;
the inmost in the internal,
and the internal in the external.
From this there is a connection of all things,
and an influx according to the connection,
and an ongoing subsistence of one thing from another.
. . . as the end is in the cause,
and the cause in the effect;
or as with a person will is in thought,
and thought in speech.

When therefore a person is of such a character
that he perceives within himself a holiness in the externals
of the Word, of the church, and of worship,
he has an external in which is an internal,
for this holiness is from the internal,
because it is from heaven.
This is the external which Moses here represents.
But when a person is of such a character
that he does not perceive any internal holiness
in the external of the Word, of the church, and of worship,
he then has an external separate from the internal.

AC 10627
And there is a Divine internal in the external,
when each and all things have an internal sense,
which is for the angels of all the heavens.
To effect this, the external sense, which is the sense of the letter,
must consist of pure correspondences;
and it consists of pure correspondences when all the words,
and all the connections of the words,
signify in the internal sense things spiritual and celestial.
These are the internal Divine things in the external.