the state of his mind from God, the Sacred Scripture is like a mirror
in which he sees God, each in his own way. The truths which he learns
from the Word and which become a part of him by a life according to
them, compose that mirror. The Sacred Scripture is the fulness of God.

--_True Christian Religion, n._ 6


IN ITS BOSOM SPIRITUAL

The Word in its bosom is spiritual. Descending from Jehovah the Lord,
and passing through the angelic heavens, the Divine (in itself
ineffable and imperceptible) became level with the perception of
angels and finally the perception of man. Hence the Word has a
spiritual sense, which is within the natural, just as the soul is in
the body, or as thought is in speech, or volition in action.

--_True Christian Religion, n._ 193


THE LETTER OF THE WORD

The truths of the sense of the letter of the Word are in part
appearances of truth, and are taken from things in nature, and thus
accommodated and adapted to the grasp of the simple and also of little
children. But being correspondences, they are receptacles and abodes
of genuine truth; and are like enclosing and containing vessels. The
naked truths themselves, which are enclosed and contained, are in the
Word's spiritual sense; and the naked goods in its celestial sense.