14. How the sense of the letter is destroyed as it passes into heaven and becomes spiritual. It is a stripping off and a revealing of the interiors of truth. Experiments showing that while truth lies hidden within man the sense of the letter is indeed opened in heaven, and conversely it is scattered, in some cases with a loud noise. And if the confirmation of the love of what is evil lies hidden within it, there appear as it were sparks of fire, and there is an explosion. Everything in the sense of the letter communicates with all the heavens. Thus the Word is the conjunction of heaven and the Church. These matters cannot be grasped without the knowledge of correspondences.