Word as from the Lord Himself or from heaven itself, in the measure
that he loves it, and thus can be nourished with the same food with
which the angels themselves are fed, and in which there is life,
according to these words of the Lord:

"The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they
are life."

"The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of
water springing up into everlasting life."

"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which
proceedeth out of the mouth of God."

--_Apocalypse Explained, n._ 1074


HOW TO USE IT

They who, in reading the Word, look to the Lord, by acknowledging that
all truth and all good are from Him, and nothing from themselves,--they
are enlightened, and see truth and perceive what is good from the Word.
That enlightenment is from the light of heaven.

--_Arcana Coelestia, n._ 9405


ITS DISSEMINATION OF LIGHT

There cannot be any conjunction with heaven unless somewhere upon the