AC 10033 - "Blood" and "Flesh"

AC 10033 [8-9]

. . . the appropriation of
Divine good and Divine truth from the Lord
is possible with those only
who acknowledge the Lord's Divine,
for this is the first and essential thing itself
of all things of faith in the church.
For heaven cannot be unclosed to others,
because the whole heaven is in this faith;
thus the Divine truth
that proceeds from the Lord's Divine good,
which is there meant by "blood,"
cannot be communicated to others.
Therefore let everyone within the church
take heed to himself
lest he deny the Lord,
and also lest he deny His Divine,
for heaven is closed to this denial,
and hell is opened to it,
all such being separated from heaven,
where the Divine of the Lord is all in all,
because it makes heaven.
And when heaven has been closed,
a memory-knowledge
of the truths of faith from the Word
and the doctrine of the church is indeed possible;
but not any faith which is faith,
for faith which is faith comes from above;
that is, through heaven from the Lord.

That the Lord so spoke, namely,
that He called the Divine good
that proceeds from Him His "flesh,"
and the Divine truth
that proceeds from His Divine good His "blood,"
was because the Word, which is from Him,
was the Divine that fills the universal heaven.
Such a Word must exist by means of correspondences,
consequently must be representative and significative
in each and all things,
for thus and no otherwise it conjoins
the men of the church with the angels in the heavens.
For when men perceive the Word according to the letter,
the angels perceive it according to the internal sense;
thus instead of the Lord's "flesh"
they perceive Divine good,
and instead of His "blood," Divine truth,
both from the Lord.
From this what is holy flows in through the Word.