Afterlife: A Guided Tour of Heaven and Its Wonders - Swedenborg ...

AFTERLIFE
from it, and their sermons come from it. It is the same
Word; but its natural meaning, which to us is its literal
mean ing, does not exist in heaven. There is a spiritual
mean ing there instead, which is its inner meaning.
Another time I was sent a small page from heaven with
only a few words written on it in Hebrew letters. I was told
that each letter enfolded treasures of wisdom, and that
these were contained in the bends and curves of the letters
and there fore in the sounds as well. I could see from this
the meaning of the Lord’s words, “I tell you in truth, until
heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall
pass away from the Law” (Matthew 5:18). It is acknowl -
edged in the church that the Word is divine right down to
the smallest point, but where in each point the Divine
lies hid den—that is not known as yet, so it needs to be
explained. In the inmost heaven, the writing consists of
var i ous curving and bending forms, and these curves and
bends are in keeping with the form of heaven. Through
them, angels express the treasures of their wisdom, includ
ing many things that they cannot say in words. Believe it
or not, the angels know this writing without practice or
teachers. They are inwardly gifted with it as they are with
the language itself, so this writing is heavenly writing.
The reason they are inwardly gifted with it is that all the
outreach of angels’ thoughts and affections and therefore
all communication of their intelligence and wisdom takes
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