42. Our Word in its inmost depths is from its celestial sense like a gentle flame which burns, and in its middle recesses is from its spiritual sense like a light which illumines; consequently the Word in its ultimate form from its natural sense, within which are the two interior senses, is like a ruby and a diamond; from its celestial flame like a ruby, and from its spiritual light like a diamond. Since this is the nature of the Word in the sense of the Letter from its transparency, therefore, the Word in this sense is meant by the following:
(1) The foundations of the wall of Jerusalem.
(2) The Urim and Thummim on Aaron's ephod.
(3) The Garden of Eden, in which the king of Tyre had been.
(4) Also the curtains and veils of the Tabernacle.
(5) And the external things of the Temple at Jerusalem.
(6) But in its glory, the Lord when He was transfigured.
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