What the Writings Testify
What the Writings Testify
CHAPTER 8
The Internal Sense is the Word Itself
"That the internal sense is the Word itself, is manifest from the many things
which have been revealed ..."
- Arcana Coeleetia 1540
"...Because the case is thus in regard to the Word, viz., that its internal sense
has become successively obliterated, and this at the present day to such an extent that
its very existence is unknown, -when yet this is the verimost Word (ipsissimu****m Verbum)
in which the Divine is most closely present,-therefore the successive states in respect to
it are described in this chapter."
- Arcana Coelestia 3432
The Lord is Doctrine itself, that is, the Word, not only as to the supreme sense
therein, but also as to the internal sense, and also as to the literal sense..."
- Arcana Coelestia 3393
"The Word is Divine Truth, and the internal or spiritual sense is interior Divine
truth."
- Apocalypse Explained 948
"By the Holy Spirit is meant the Lord as to the Divine truth such as it is in the
heavens, thus the Word such as it is in the spiritual sense, for this is the Divine truth
in heaven..."
- Apocalypse Explained 778:3
"What is the quality of the Word in the heavens, this is known only from the
internal sense, for the internal sense is the Word of the Lord in the heavens."
- Arcana Coelestia 1887
"Moreover, these are the things which are contained in the internal sense, and the
internal sense is the Word of the Lord in the heavens: those who are in the heavens
perceive it thus. When a man is in the truth, that is, in the internal sense, then he can
make one as to thought with those who are in heaven, even though the man be respectively
in a most general and obscure idea..."
- Arcana Coelestia 2094
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