--_Arcana Coelestia, nn._ 3699-3702
ITS FUNCTION
Divine truth, in passing from the Lord through the three heavens to
men in the world, is written and made the Word in each heaven. The
Word, therefore, is the union of the heavens with one another, and of
the heavens with the Church in the world. Hence there flows in from
the Lord through the heavens a holy Divine with the man who
acknowledges the Divine in the Lord and the holy in the Word, while he
reads it. Such a man can be instructed and can draw wisdom from the
Word as from the Lord Himself or from heaven itself, in the measure
that he loves it, and thus can be nourished with the same food with
which the angels themselves are fed, and in which there is life,
according to these words of the Lord:
"The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they
are life."
"The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of
water springing up into everlasting life."
"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which
proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
--_Apocalypse Explained, n.
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