AC 10468 , 10471 - The External and Internal of the Word

AC 10468

The reason why 'Moses' here represents the internal
is that he is talking to Aaron,
who represents the external.
Here it makes no difference whether you say
the internal and the external sides of the Word
or simply the internal and the external.
For the Word is Divine Truth,
the source of perception that a person has . . ..
It should be remembered
that all perception regarding what is external
comes from what is internal.
For things present on an external level
are visible from an internal level;
but they are not visible
from the external level on which they are present,
and those present on the internal level
are even less visible from there.
This explains why those whose interest lies
in external things and not in what is internal
do not acknowledge internal things,
because they do not discern and see them
with their bodily senses,
and also why some deny the existence of those things,
and everything heavenly and Divine along with them.

AC 10471

Moses is here called “my lord” by Aaron,  (Exodus 32:22)
because relatively the internal is a lord,
and the external is a servant;
for the internal with a person is in heaven,
and consequently when it is open it is the person’s heaven;
while the external with him is in the world, thus is his world;
and the world was made to serve heaven
as a servant his lord.
It is similar with the external of worship,
and likewise with the external of the church,
and also of the Word,
relatively to their internal.