The
naked truths themselves, which are enclosed and contained, are in the
Word's spiritual sense; and the naked goods in its celestial sense.
The doctrine of genuine truth can also be drawn in full from the
literal sense of the Word; for the Word in this sense is like a man
clothed, whose face and hands are bare. All that concerns man's life,
and so his salvation, is bare; the rest is clothed.
--_Doctrine Concerning the Sacred Scripture, nn._ 40, 55
ITS LANGUAGE
The whole natural world corresponds to the spiritual world; not only
generally, but in detail. Whatever comes forth in the natural world
from the spiritual, is therefore called correspondent. The world of
nature comes forth and subsists from the spiritual world, just as an
effect does from its efficient cause.
--_Heaven and Hell, n._ 89
What is Divine presents itself in the world in what corresponds. The
Word is therefore written wholly in correspondence. Therefore the
Lord, too, speaking as He did from the Divine, spoke in
correspondence.
--_True Christian Religion, n._ 201
"And behold a ladder set on the earth, and its head reaching to
heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
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