substances and matters, which are subjects.

221. Two arcana, which are brought within reach of the understanding by
what precedes, may here be revealed. The First Arcanum is that the Word
is in its fullness and in its power in the sense of the letter. For there
are three senses in the Word, according to the three degrees; the celestial
sense, the spiritual sense, and the natural sense. Since these senses are
in the Word according to the three degrees of height, and their conjunction
is effected by correspondences, the outmost sense, which is the natural
and is called the sense of the letter, is not only the complex, containant
and base of the corresponding interior senses, but moreover in the outmost
sense the Word is in its fullness and in its power. This is abundantly
shown and proved in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Concerning the
Sacred Scripture (n. 27-35, 36-49, 50-61, 62-69). The Second Arcanum is
that the Lord came into the world, and took upon Him the Human, in order
to put Himself into the power of subjugating the hells, and of reducing
all things to order both in the heavens and on the earth. This Human He
put on over His former Human. This Human which He put on in the world was
like the human of a man in the world. Yet both Humans are Divine, and
therefore infinitely transcend the finite humans of angels and men. And
because He fully glorified the natural Human even to its outmosts, He
rose again with the whole body, differently from any man. Through the
assumption of this Human the Lord put on Divine Omnipotence not only
for subjugating the hells, and reducing the heavens to order, but also
holding the hells in subjection to eternity, and saving mankind. This
power is meant by His "sitting at the right hand of the power and might
of God." Because the Lord, by the assumption of a natural Human, made
Himself Divine Truth in outmosts, He is called "the Word," and it is said
that "the Word was made flesh;" moreover, Divine Truth in outmosts is
the Word in the sense of the letter. This the Lord made Himself by