Heaven 8 - The Word Unites Spiritual Truths With Sensory Realities

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In spiritual Christianity, the Word is foundational for the reception of Divine life within the natural mind, transforming it with new spiritual affections and truths. This Divine life mediated through truths from the Word generates a variety of spiritual forms and objects that reflect the internal states of angels and spirits.
These spiritual entities experience their internal affections and truths through sensory forms of beauty and harmony, mirroring the dynamic flow of Divine love and wisdom. This process illustrates the unity of spiritual and sensory realities, creating an ever-evolving experience of heavenly life.
Manifestation of Spiritual Truths
Spiritual Christianity teaches that ideas drawn from the word form the basis for the reception of the inflowing Divine life within the natural mind. That life operating through truths drawn from the word enriches the mind with new affections and the riches of spiritual or interior truth. These affections and truths form a new will and intellect.
From which are produced an inexhaustible variety of representative forms and objects of heavenly delight that give rise to the external sensory world of angels and spirits. These spiritual or mental objects are created by the word within the minds of angels and spirits. This harmony of end, cause, and effect reflects the correspondence between states of the will, intellect, and sensation, creating a unified experience of spiritual and sensory realities for those in the spiritual world.
Perceptible Forms of Affections
The way the affections of the will receive Divine influx is manifested to the intellect in perceptible forms, known as spiritual or interior truths. These truths from the Word are exhibited to the senses through objects of beauty, harmony, and magnificence. The external sensory world that angels and spirits inhabit mirrors their internal spiritual states of mind.
Everything in their sensory field of perception represents in accommodated forms the inflowing Divine life that creates and maintains it all.
Unceasing Stream of Divine Life
The objects and forms perceived in the external world of spiritual beings are not static. but change in accordance with the interior causes of the individual spiritual states. These changes represent, as in a mirror, the richness of the Divine love and wisdom flowing forth in an unceasing and inexhaustible stream of life.
The continual reception and manifestation of Divine life creates a harmonious and evolving experience of heavenly existence, highlighting the dynamic nature of spiritual life.
Conclusion
The manifestation of spiritual truths through the word demonstrates the dynamic interplay between Divine life and the natural mind, creating a rich tapestry of internal affections and perceptible forms. As Divine love and wisdom flow continuously, they shape the sensory world of angels and spirits, reflecting their internal spiritual states in a harmonious and ever-changing experience.
This ongoing interaction between the Divine and the human mind underscores the profound connection between spiritual and sensory realities, emphasising the transformative power of the word in both realms.
From The Doctrines For Spiritual Christianity
Everyone can see that a man’s knowledge of God is his mirror of God, and that those who know nothing about God do not see God in a mirror with its face toward them, but in a mirror with its back toward them; and as this is covered with quicksilver, or some dark paste, it does not reflect the image but extinguishes it. Faith in God enters into man through a prior way, which is from the soul into the higher parts of the understanding; while knowledges about God enter through a posterior way, because they are drawn from the revealed Word by the understanding, through the bodily senses; and these inflowings meet midway in the understanding; and there natural faith, which is merely persuasion, becomes spiritual, which is real acknowledgment. Thus the human understanding is like a refining vessel, in which this transmutation is effected. (True Christian Religion 11{3})
Before everyone who has formed the state of his mind from God the Holy Scripture stands like a mirror wherein he sees God; but everyone in his own way. This mirror is made up of those truths that man learns from the Word, and that he appropriates by living in accordance with them. From all this it is evident, in the first place, that the Holy Scripture is the fullness of God.​ (True Christian Religion 6)