313. * displays of this kind are being shown [to me], but from them, a very inward meaning must be taken, and then an innermost one. Then such a display does not occur in them. The same is true now of words, which are similar and, so to speak, outermost portrayals of what is spiritual and heavenly, and for that reason, appear so disjoined - while the very inward and innermost meanings are most fittingly connected.
[See WE 6340-47 under the heading Lev. Chap. 1, treating of Exod. 40, "On the column of cloud and fire."] 6348. (I still hear them saying that they had been in obscurity [cf. WE 6343]). But those who have been of such a character, are also such after death, like those who are now saying
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