I was inspired to speak of the interiors of the Word in the prophets and at the same time to show by a symbolic display that the words there are nothing, but that there is an inner meaning that begins to be alive when it was given to depict that the words are to be cast away as nothing, as is done in conversation, where one pays no attention to words but only to meaning. So it is in the case of the Word of the Lord in regard to its letter, and when by this symbolic display the words or letter were cast away and thus put off, then there appeared to me in a vision a nude person, who was lifted up vertically above the head, upon seeing whom the spirits, surprised, said it is a miracle, because they saw the person better than they saw me, in a living form. By that person, the inner meaning was symbolized, for a nude person is the inner sense, whose clothing is only words, or a letter. So it was corroborated that there is an inner sense that takes on life, or humanity, in the Word of the Lord. 1748, 29 June.