AC 4710 - "To Be Sent"; AC 4715 - The Natural and Sensuous Divine & Our Reception of Him

AC 4710 - "To Be Sent"

That in the internal sense "to be sent"
is to proceed and to teach,
is evident from many passages in the Word,
as where it is often said of the Lord
that He was "sent" by the Father,
whereby is meant that He proceeded from Him,
that is, from the Divine good;
and also that the Lord "sends"
the Comforter, or the Spirit of Truth,
whereby is meant that holy truth proceeds from Him.
The prophets also were "sent,"
by which is meant
that they taught what proceeds from the Lord.
Everyone may confirm these things from the Word,
where they often occur.

AC 4715 [1-2] - The Natural and Sensuous Divine & Our Reception of Him

And he sent him out of the valley of Hebron.
(Genesis 37:14)

That this means from the natural and sensuous Divine,
is evident from the meaning of "to be sent,"
as being to proceed and to teach;
and from the meaning of a "valley"
as being those things which are below;
and from the meaning of "Hebron"
as being the Lord's church as to good.
So by these words is meant
that it taught the lower things of the church,
and this because they did not comprehend higher things.
For he who teaches faith, and not charity,
is unable to notice
the higher or interior things of the church;
because he has nothing to guide him,
and to dictate whether this or that is of faith, or is true.
But if he teaches charity, he then has good,
and this is to him a dictate and guides him;
for all truth is from good and treats of good,
or what is the same,
everything of faith is from charity and treats of charity.
Everyone, from mere natural light,
can know that everything of doctrine has regard to life.

That by these words is meant
from the natural and sensuous Divine, is the higher sense;
for the lower things of the church
are said to be from the Lord's natural and sensuous Divine;
not that in the Lord these things are lower,
because in the Lord and in His Divine Human all is infinite,
inasmuch as He is Jehovah as to each essence,
but because it is so in a person.
For those who are sensuous people
apprehend sensuously the things
which are in the Lord and from Him,
and those who are natural apprehend them naturally.
It is so said because of the quality of those who receive.
But those who are celestial people,
and thence truly rational, perceive interior things,
and it is said of them
that they are taught from the Lord's rational Divine.
This as before said
is the higher sense signified by the words.