Angel Communication Through Ancient Languages | NCE Spotlight

Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven:


3482 


Although the language of Scripture seems to us so plainspoken and
sometimes unpolished, it is the angelic language itself in its
outermost form. When angelic language, which is spiritual,
descends into human words, this is the only kind of diction in
which it can express itself, because all of its content
represents something, and every word symbolizes something. The
ancients had no other language, interacting as they did with
spirits and angels. It was full of representation and every
element of it held spiritual meaning. Their books were written in
the same language, because to speak and write this way was the
pursuit of their wisdom.


3301:9  


The youths who said, “Go on up, you baldhead! Go on up, you
baldhead!” to Elisha and were mauled by bears from the forest (2
Kings 2:23, 24) represented people who blaspheme the Word as a
work devoid of truth. Elisha represented the Lord as the Word. .
. .


From this you can also see how much power representations had at
that time.


3061:2 


The Lord has existed from eternity, as the Word makes plain . . .
, although he was later born in time. After all, he spoke through
Moses and the prophets and appeared to many people, and it says
there that he was Jehovah. This deep secret, though, cannot be
revealed to anyone who does not have divine perception. As a
result, it can be revealed to hardly anyone but members of the
earliest church, which was heavenly and had divine perception.
From them I have heard that Jehovah himself was the Lord in his
divine humanity, at the times when he went down into heaven and
flowed through heaven. The reason he revealed himself this way is
that heaven resembles an individual human being with all the body
parts, which is also why it is called the universal human. . . .
Divinity itself in heaven, or in the universal human, was the
divine human, who was Jehovah himself clothed in this humanity.