AC 6943 - correspondences - communication & communion

AC 6943
... the historical sense of the letter is expressed by external things,
in the internal sense signifies internal things;
because in no other way
can the spiritual things of heaven be presented to men.
For man does not apprehend bare spiritual things,
neither can they be expressed in the words of human speech;
and therefore spiritual things have been described
by corresponding natural things,
and in this way they way have been given to man.
Thus the Word is helpful to man in the natural world,
and also to man in the spiritual world,
and hence there is communication of heaven with man, and communion.