Selection from Arcana Coelestia ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. . . . And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:1-5;14)In the supreme sense (all things in the Word in both general and particular) have relation to the Lord. The Lord is doctrine itself, that is, the Word, not only as to the supreme sense therein, but also as to the internal sense, and even as to the literal sense — for this sense is representative and significative of the internal sense, and the internal sense is representative and significative of the supreme sense — that which in the Word is representative and significative is in its essence that which is represented and signified, thus it is the Divine of the Lord — for a representative is nothing but an image of him who is represented, and is in an image the Lord Himself presented to view.
This may be seen from man's speech, and also from his gesture, these being merely images of the things which come forth within the man, in his thought and will, so that the speech and gesture are the thought and will in form — for if you take away from them the thought and will, that which is left is a mere inanimate affair, thus nothing human. This shows how the case is with the Word, even in the letter, namely, that it is Divine.
(from Arcana Coelestia 3393)