TCR 711-712, 716 - The Holy Supper, Why It Is a Spiritual Repast

TCR 711-712

. . . the Lord Himself is in the Holy Supper,
that the flesh and bread
are the Lord as to the Divine Good of Love,
and that the blood and wine are the Lord
as to the Divine Truth of Wisdom.
Thus the Holy Supper involves the three universals,
namely, the Lord, His Divine Good and His Divine Truth.
Since then the Holy Supper
includes and contains these three,
it follows that it also includes and contains
the universals of heaven and of the Church.
Because all particulars depend on universals,
just as contents depend on containants,
it follows also
that the Holy Supper includes and contains
all the particulars of heaven and of the Church.
As the Divine Good and the Divine Truth,
both from the Lord and both being the Lord,
are meant by His flesh and blood
and also by the bread and wine,
it is evident as a primary consequence
that the Holy Supper contains,
both as to universals and as to particulars,
all things of heaven and of the Church.

It is also known
that there are three essentials of the Church, namely,
God, charity and faith,
and that all things of the Church
have reference to these three, as to their universals.
These three are the same as those just mentioned,
for God in the Holy Supper is the Lord,
charity is Divine Good,
and faith is Divine Truth.
What is charity
but the good that a man does from the Lord?
and what is faith
but the truth which a man believes from the Lord?
Hence it is that in man, as to his internal,
there are three essentials, namely,
the soul or mind, the will and the understanding.
These three are the receptacles
of the universals just mentioned;
the soul itself or mind is the receptacle of the Lord,
for it lives from Him;
the will is the receptacle of love or good,
and the understanding is the receptacle of wisdom or truth.
Therefore, all things, in general and in particular,
in the soul or mind
not only have reference to those three universals
of heaven and the Church,
but they also proceed from them.

TCR 716

His Divine can no more be separated from His Human
than the soul from the body.
Therefore, when it is said
that the Lord as to His Human
is wholly present in the Holy Supper,
it follows that His Divine,
from which His Human proceeded,
is also present at the same time.
Now, since the Lord's flesh signifies
the Divine Good of His Love,
and His blood the Divine Truth of His Wisdom,
it is evident that the Lord,
both as to the Divine and as to the glorified Human,
is wholly omnipresent in the Holy Supper;
and consequently it is a spiritual repast.