AC 10133 - Worship and the Word

AC 10133 [1, 2]

. . . the good of innocence must be in all good,
and from this in all truth,
in order that it may be good and truth
in which there is life from the Divine;
thus it must be in all worship,
for all worship must be from the good of love
and from the truths of faith,
in order that it may be worship.

. . . in order that the spiritual sense of the Word
may be understood,
everything from its natural sense
that relates to time and place,
and likewise everything that relates to person,
must be rejected,
and instead thereof states must be thought of;
from all which it can be seen
how pure is the Word in the internal sense,
thus how purely it is perceived
by the angels in the heavens,
consequently how superior
are the wisdom and intelligence of the angels
to the intelligence and wisdom of people,
who think only from the natural
fixed upon things most finite
in the world and the earth.