AC 1499 - Memory-knowledges Leaving the Lord; AC 1502 - What Is In the Internal Sense of the Word

AC 1499

As regards memory-knowledges leaving the Lord,
the case is this.
When celestial things are being conjoined
with intellectual truths,
and these are becoming celestial,
then all things that are empty
are dissipated of themselves;
this is in the nature of the celestial.

AC 1502 [2-3]

. . . this is the Word of the Lord,
which can in no wise have any life,
unless there is an internal sense
that has regard to Him.
The arcana which lie stored up in these things,
as also in those said
concerning Abram and Isaac in Philistia, are --
how the Lord's Human Essence
was conjoined with His Divine Essence,
or what is the same,
how the Lord became Jehovah
as to His Human Essence also;
and that His inauguration went on from childhood,
which inauguration is here treated of.
Moreover these things also involve
more arcana than a person can ever believe;
but those which can be told
are so few as to be almost nothing.
Besides the most profound arcana concerning the Lord,
they also involve arcana
concerning the instruction and regeneration of a person,
that he may become celestial;
as also concerning his instruction and regeneration,
that he may become spiritual;
and not only
concerning the instruction of the individual man,
but also concerning that of the church in general.
And, further, they involve arcana concerning
the instruction of little children in heaven;
in a word, concerning the instruction
of all who become images and likenesses of the Lord.
These things do not at all appear in the sense of the letter,
for the reason that the historical narrative
veils them over and obscures them;
but they appear in the internal sense.