AC 3735 - When a Person Reads the Word In a Holy State

 AC 3735 [2]

. . . when in a holy state a person thinks of bread,
as for instance of the bread in the Holy Supper,
or of the "daily bread" in the Lord's Prayer,
then the thought which the person has about bread
serves the angels who are with him
as an objective representative for thinking about
the good of love which is from the Lord;
for the angels apprehend nothing
of a person's thought about bread,
but instead of this
have thought concerning good,
for such is the correspondence.
In like manner
when in a holy state a person thinks about raiment,
the thought of the angels is about truth;
and so it is with everything else in the Word.
This shows what is the nature
of the conjunction of heaven and earth by the Word,
namely, that a person
who reads the Word in a holy manner
is by such correspondence
conjoined closely with heaven,
and through heaven with the Lord,
even although the person thinks
only of those things in the Word
which are in the sense of its letter.
The holiness itself then present with the person
comes from an influx
of celestial and spiritual thoughts and affections,
such as angels have.