AC 10687-10691 - What Makes the Word Holy and Shining

AC 10687

. . . the Word has been written wholly by correspondences,
and consequently is of such a nature
as to conjoin heaven with a person.
For heaven is in the internal sense of the Word;
and the external sense corresponds to the internal sense;
and therefore when the Word is being read by a person,
the angels who are with him perceive it
in the spiritual sense, which is the internal sense;
and the result is an influx of what is holy from the angels,
which effects the conjunction.
It was for this end that a Word of this nature was given.

AC 10691

Be it known that by the shining forth
of the interiors of the Word in the external
is meant the internal sense in the external;
for the internal sense continually shows itself
and shines in the external,
but is noticed by those only who are in internal things;
and it is not perceived by those
who are in that external in which is an internal,
as are those who are called men of the external church;
nevertheless, unknown to them,
it is present, and affects them.
. . . The reason why the internal sense shines,
is that Divine truth is there,
such as there is in the heavens,
and the Divine truth that proceeds from the Lord
appears to the angels as light,
and moreover, is the light of heaven.