HH 304, 305, 306, 310 (portions) - The Most Important Means the Lord Uses to Talk to Us

HH 304 [2]

But a person has, in addition,
what angels do not have,
that he is not
only in respect of his interiors
in the spiritual world,
but also at the same time
in respect of his exteriors
in the natural world.
His exteriors which are in the natural world
are all things of his natural or external memory
and of his thought and imagination therefrom;
in general, cognitions and knowledges
with their delights and pleasures
so far as they savor of the world,
also many pleasures pertaining to
the sensual things of the body,
together with his senses themselves,
his speech, and his actions.
And all these are the ultimates
in which the Lord's Divine influx terminates;
for that influx does not stop midway,
but goes on to its ultimates.
All this shows
that the ultimate of Divine order is in a person;
and being the ultimate
it is also the basis and foundation.

HH 305

But humankind has severed
this connection with heaven
by turning his exteriors away from heaven,
and turning them to the world and to self
by means of his love of self and of the world,
thereby so withdrawing himself
that he no longer serves
as a basis and foundation for heaven;
therefore the Lord has provided
a medium to serve in place
of this base and foundation for heaven,
and also for the conjunction of heaven
with humankind.
This medium is the Word.

HH 306

. . . when a person reads the Word
and perceives it according to
the sense of the letter or the outer sense
the angels perceive it according
to the internal or spiritual sense;
for all the thought of angels is spiritual
while the thought of a person is natural.
These two kinds of thought appear diverse;
nevertheless they are one because they correspond.
Thus it was that when humankind
had separated himself from heaven
and had severed the bond
the Lord provided a medium of conjunction
of heaven with humankind
by means of the Word.

HH 310

. . . without such a Word
there would be no light of heaven
with the people of our earth,
nor would there be
any conjunction of heaven with them;
for there is conjunction only so far
as the light of heaven is present with a person,
and that light is present
only so far as
Divine truth is revealed to a person
by means of the Word.