AC 5316 - Why Pharaoh Gave Joseph the Power

AC 5316

. . . Pharaoh deprived himself of his own authority,
and put all Egypt under Joseph.
These things were so done of the Divine Providence,
in order that Joseph might put on the representation
of the celestial of the spiritual the Lord had
when He was in the world,
and by means of which
He disposed His natural and also His sensuous,
in order that progressively
He might make them both Divine.
This was done to Joseph
to the end that the Word that was to be written about him
might contain Divine things,
thus such things as in the heavens are most holy
and are suited to the angels who are in the heavens;
for the angels there are in the Lord,
because they are in the sphere
of the Divine truth proceeding from Him;
and therefore the Divine things
in the Word's internal sense
relative to the Lord and to the glorification of His Human
so greatly affect them
that they perceive from them
all the blessedness of their wisdom and intelligence.