There is a putting off, and a revelation of the interiors of truth.

Experiments, that when truth lies hidden within with a man, the sense of the letter is open in heaven, and on the other hand it is dissipated, and sometimes with a noise; and if the confirmation of the love of evil lies hidden within, there appear as it were sparks of fire, and an explosion.

All things of the sense of the letter of the Word communicate with all things of the heavens.

Thus the Word is the conjunction of heaven and the church

This cannot be comprehended without a knowledge of correspondences.