99. [CONCERNING THE INTERIOR SENSE] The interior sense of the Word can by no means be perceived unless the sense of the letter is as it were obliterated. This is the case also in other things, as in philosophical matters, when the mind inheres in words alone, as in dust, their interior meaning does not appear; so also when man sticks in external or corporeal objects. The case is similar as regards the still more interior sense. (Externa, Interiora, Philosophia, Verbum, Vox.)