As for the very inward and the innermost parts of the Word of the Lord, these cannot as easily be laid open to human eyes as the inward parts, because they are ineffable and of such a nature that no understanding grasps them. And if they were to be uttered, they could hardly appear as coherent as the things in the inward meaning, because the connection is also incomprehensible and ineffable, not unlike the inward parts of the human body, which, exposed to an untrained eye do not at all appear so put together as to constitute a human being, when yet if so much as one thing were lacking, a person could not live as to the body. So there is such a connection between them, although it is not understood except by experts, that one thing regards the other in a series and order that is highly harmonious, even though it does not appear so. But the inward parts of the Word are those which can be grasped because they can be seen from earthly things and in earthly things, if the Lord enlightens the understanding. These words are from angels. 1748, 30 June.