AC 5247, 5249 - The Details of the Word and the Angels

AC 5247

. . . all the details of the Word are holy;
but the holiness therein
is not apparent to the understanding,
except that of one who knows its internal sense;
nevertheless by influx from heaven
it comes to the perception of him
who believes the Word to be holy.
This influx is effected through
the internal sense in which the angels are;
and although this sense is not understood by the person,
still it affects him,
because in it the affection of the angels is communicated.
From this it is plain also
that the Word has been given to a person
in order that he may have communication with heaven,
and that the Divine truth which is in heaven
may affect him by means of the influx.

AC 5249

And Pharaoh sent and called Joseph,
and they brought him hastily out of the pit;
and he shaved,
and changed his garments,
and came to Pharaoh.
(Genesis 51:14)

What the words in this verse  involve
is clear from what has been unfolded,
for they treat of Joseph,
how he was freed from the pit and came unto Pharaoh.
By Joseph in the internal sense
is represented the Lord as to the celestial of the spiritual,
and by Pharaoh is represented
the natural or external person;
by the pit in which Joseph was
is represented the state of the Lord's temptation
as to the celestial of the spiritual;
and by his being called from the pit by Pharaoh
is meant the state of deliverance from temptations,
and further,
the subsequent state of influx and communication
with the new natural.
From this it is plain
that in the internal sense is here described
how the Lord made His natural new, and at last Divine.

These are the things the celestial angels think
when this history is being read by a person;
moreover, to think such things is to them most delightful,
for they are in the Lord's Divine sphere,
thus as it were in the Lord,
and in a perception of inmost joy
when thinking of the Lord
and of the salvation of the human race
by the Lord's making Divine the Human in Him;
and in order that the angels
might be kept in this most heavenly joy,
and at the same time in wisdom,
that Divine process is fully described
in the internal sense of the Word,
and at the same time
therein the process of a person's regeneration;
for the regeneration of a person
is an image of the Lord's glorification.
Some may possibly wonder
what the angels converse together about,
and consequently what people who become angels
converse about after death;
but be it known to them that it is about such things
as are contained in the internal sense of the Word,
namely, about the Lord's glorification,
His kingdom, the church,
the regeneration of a person
through the good of love and the truth of faith;
but they speak about these things
by means of secret things
that are for the most part inexpressible.