Table of Contents
Conventions Used in This Work vii
Sacred Scripture
1 §§1-4 / Sacred Scripture, or the Word, Is Divine Truth Itself 3
2 §§4-26 / There Is a Spiritual Meaning in the Word, Which Has Been Unknown until Now 6
3 §§27-36 / The Literal Meaning of the Word Is the Foundation, the Container, and the Support of Its Spiritual and Heavenly Meanings 27
4 §§37-49 / Divine Truth, in All Its Fullness, Holiness, and Power, Is Present in the Literal Meaning of the Word 32
5 §§50-61 / The Church's Body of Teaching Is to Be Drawn from the Literal Meaning of the Word and Is to Be Supported by It 41
6 §§62-69 I By Means of the Literal Meaning of the Word We Unite with the Lord and Form a Companionship with Angels 49
7 §§70-75 / The Word Is in All the Heavens and Is the Source of Angelic Wisdom 53
8 §§76-79 / The Existence of the Church Rests on the Word, and Its Quality Depends on the Quality of Its Understanding of the Word 55
9 §§80-90 / There Is a Marriage of the Lord and the Church in the Details of the Word and a Consequent Marriage of Goodness and Truth 59
10 §§91-97 / It Is Possible to Wrench Heretical Ideas from the Literal Meaning of the Word, but What Is Damning Is to Convince Ourselves [That They Are True] 68
11 §§98-100 / The Lord Came into the World to Fulfill Everything in the Word and So to Become Divine Truth or the Word Even on the Outermost Level 74
12 §§101-103 / Before the Word That We Have in the World Today, There Was a Word That Has Been Lost 76
13 §§104-113 / By Means of the Word, There Is Light Even for People "Who Are outside the Church and Do Not Have the Word 79
14 §§114-118 / If There Were No Word, No One Would Know about God, Heaven and Hell, Life after Death, and Least of All, about the Lord 83
White Horse
1 §§1-5 / The White Horse Described in Revelation 19 89
2 §§6-17 / The Word and Its Spiritual or Inner Meaning from Secrets of Heaven 95
Biographical Note 113