Doc. of Sacred Scripture (Dick) n. 63

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63. There is association with angels by means of the sense of the Letter because within that sense there are the spiritual and the celestial senses, and the angels are in those senses; the angels of the spiritual kingdom are in the spiritual sense of the Word, and the angels of the celestial are in its celestial sense. These senses are unfolded from the natural sense of the Word, which is the sense of the Letter, when a man principled in truth is in that sense. This unfolding is instantaneous, and thus also is his association [with angels J.


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