Arcana Coelestia volume 7 - Swedenborg Foundation

ARCANA COELESTIA 4062the sense of natural human thought turned into spiritual, forspiritual language or speech is proper to the angels, and naturallanguage or speech to men. That there is so sudden a change of as itwere one language into the other is because there is acorrespondence of each and all things in the natural world withthose in the spiritual world.[3] Now as the internal sense of the Word is chiefly for those whoare in the spiritual world, therefore such things are here mentionedin the internal sense as are for them, and as are pleasant anddelightful to them. Yet the more interior such things are, the moreremote are they from the apprehension of men to whom only thosethings which are of the world and the body are pleasant anddelightful; and when this is the case, they hold in contempt thespiritual things that belong to the internal sense and also loathethem. Let everyone explore within himself whether the thingscontained in the internal sense of the verses that now follow areworthless and distasteful to him, when yet they are what the angelicsocieties take the greatest delight in. From this it may be plain toone who reflects what a difference there is between the delights ofmen and the delights of angels, and also in what things the angelsvest wisdom, and in what men vest it—that the angels vest wisdomin such things as man thinks worthless and holds in aversion, andthat man vests wisdom in such things as the angels care nothingabout, and many in such things as the angels reject and shun.5649. And they said, Over the word of the silver that was returnedin our bags in the beginning are we brought. That this signifies thatbecause truth in the exterior natural appears to be givengratuitously, they were therefore to be in subjection is evident fromthe signification of the “silver being returned” as being truthbestowed gratuitously, (see n. 5530, 5624); from the significationof a “bag” as being the threshold of the exterior natural (n. 5497);and from the signification of “being brought” as being to beadjoined or subjected (as shown just above, n. 5648).[2] The case herein is this. As it was perceived that the truths ofmemory-knowledge in the exterior natural were given gratuitously,