For there is a literal sense and
there is a spiritual sense in the Word, the literal sense made up of
such things as are in the world, and the spiritual sense of such
things as are in heaven. And such a Word, in which everything down to
the least jot is a correspondence, was given to men because the
conjunction of heaven with the world is effected by means of
correspondences.{2}
{Footnote 1} The Word was written wholly by correspondences (n.
8615). By means, of the Word man has conjunction with heaven
(n. 2899, 6943, 9396, 9400, 9401, 10375, 10452).
{Footnote 2} Concerning the spiritual sense of the Word see the
little work on The White Horse referred to in the Apocalypse.
115. I have been taught from heaven that the most ancient men on our
earth, who were celestial men, thought from correspondences
themselves, the natural things of the world before their eyes serving
them as means of thinking in this way; and that they could be in
fellowship with angels and talk with them because they so thought,
and that thus through them heaven was conjoined to the world. For
this reason that period was called the Golden Age, of which it is
said by ancient writers that the inhabitants of heaven dwelt with men
and associated with them as friends with friends.
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