AC 6516 - When the Word Is Read

AC 6516

When the Word is being read,
the Lord flows in and teaches;
and wonderful to say
there are writings in the spiritual world also,
which I have sometimes seen,
and have been able to read,
but not to understand;
yet they are clearly understood by good spirits and angels,
because they are in accord with their universal language;
and it has been given me to know
that every word therein,
down to the very syllables,
involves such things as belong to that world,
thus spiritual things;
and that they are there perceived from the breathing,
and from the affection resulting from their utterance,
thus from a softer or harsher modifying forth;
but this perhaps scarcely anyone will believe.
This has been disclosed
in order that it may be known
that the names in the Word,
having been written in heaven,
are at once perceived there
in respect to their meaning.