14. THE LORD IS THE WORD. In the inmost sense of the Word the Lord alone is treated of, and all the states of the glorification of His Human are described; that is, of His union with the Divine Itself; and also all the states involved in the subjugation of the hells, and of the bringing into order of all things therein, as well as in the heavens, (n. 2249, 7014). So that the Lord's whole life in the world is described in that sense, and by means of that sense the Lord's presence with the angels is continuous, (n. 2523). Accordingly in the inmost of the Word there is the Lord alone, and the Divinity and holiness of the Word have their origin thence, (n. 1873, 9357). The Lord's saying that the Scripture concerning Himself was fulfilled, means that all things contained in the inmost sense were fulfilled, (n. 7933). The Word means the Divine Truth, (n. 4692, 5075, 9987). The Lord is the Word because He is the Divine Truth, (n. 2533). The Lord is also the Word because the Word is from Him, and concerning Him, (n. 2859), and in its inmost sense concerning the Lord alone; thus the Lord Himself is therein, (n. 1873, 9357); and because in each and all things of the Word there is the marriage of Divine Good and Divine Truth, which marriage is in the Lord alone, (n. 3004, 3005, 3009, 4137, 5194, 5502, 6343, 7945, 8339, 9263, 9314), [5138]. Divine Truth is the sole Reality, and that in which it is, which is from the Divine, is the sole Substantiality, (n. 5272, 6880, 7004, 8200). Since the Divine Truth, proceeding from the Lord as the Sun in heaven, is light there, and the Divine Good is heat there; and because all things therein come into being from these, just as all things in the world come into being from light and heat, which are also in their own substances, and act by means of them; and because the natural world exists by means of heaven or the spiritual world; it is clear that all things which were created, were created from the Divine Truth and thus from the Word, according to these words in John,
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and by it were all things made that were made; and THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH. John i 1, 2, 3, 14.
(n. 2803, 2894, 5272, 6880). Further particulars concerning the creation of all things from Divine Truth, thus by the Lord, may be seen in the work on HEAVEN AND HELL, n. 137; and more fully in the passage concerning the Sun in heaven, where it is shown that it is the Lord, and that it is His Divine Love, (n. 116-125); and that Divine Truth is the light, and Divine Good is the heat from that Sun in heaven, (n. 126-140). The Lord's conjunction with man is through the Word, by means of the internal sense, (n. 10375). Each and all things of the Word effect this conjunction, and hence the Word is wonderful beyond comparison with every other writing, (n. 10632, 10633, 10634). Since the writing of the Word it is by this means that the Lord speaks with men, (n. 10290). See, in addition, the facts adduced in the work on HEAVEN AND HELL, concerning the conjunction of heaven with man by means of the Word, (n. 303-310).
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