AC 10137 - The Divine Word Unites Angels and People

AC 10137 [2, 8]

He who believes that the Word is Divine
and spiritual throughout,
must necessarily believe
that some secret of heaven lies hidden
in every detail of it.
But the reason why it has not been known before
wherein this secret lies,
is that it has not been known
that there is an internal sense
which is spiritual and Divine
in every detail of the Word;
and that there are angels with every person,
who perceive his thoughts,
and who apprehend the Word spiritually
while he is reading it,
and that through them what is holy
then flows in from the Lord,
and thus that through them
there is conjunction of heaven with a person,
consequently conjunction of the Lord
through the heavens with him.
This is the reason why a Word of this nature
was given to humankind,
by means of which,
and not in any other way,
his salvation can be provided for by the Lord.

. . . the meat-offering which was bread,
and the drink-offering which was wine,
mean such things as are of the church and heaven,
namely, heavenly food and drink,
like what is meant by
the bread and wine in the Holy Supper,
for the purpose above mentioned --
that heaven may conjoin itself with a person
by means of the Word,
consequently the Lord through heaven
by means of the Word as a medium.
As the Divine of the Word consists in such things,
it nourishes not only human minds,
but also angelic minds,
and causes heaven and the world to be one.