Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 212

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212. In the spiritual sense, the Lord's body or flesh, and in like manner the bread, denotes the good of love; and the Lord's blood, and in like manner the wine, denotes the good of faith; and eating, appropriation and conjunction. The angels who are with a person who partakes of the sacrament of the Supper, do not understand these things otherwise; for they perceive all things spiritually. Hence it is, that the holiness of love and the holiness of faith then flows in with a man from the angels, and thus through heaven from the Lord; conjunction results thence.


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