The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
THE HOLY SUPPER
(pt. 2)
How conjunction is effected by [The Holy Supper] is not understood by those who do not know the internal or spiritual sense of the Word, since they do not think beyond the external sense, which is the sense of the letter.
It is known from the internal or spiritual sense of the Word, what is signified by the "body" and "blood," and by the "bread" and "wine"; and also what is signified by "eating."
In the spiritual sense,
• The Lord's "body" or "flesh," and the "bread," signifies the good of love.
• The Lord's "blood" and the "wine," the good of faith.
• "eating" is appropriation and conjunction.
The angels who are with the man who goes to the Sacrament of the Supper, understand those things in no other way, for they perceive all things spiritually.
Hence it is, that the holiness of love and the holiness of faith then flow into man from the angels, thus through heaven from the Lord, and hence conjunction is effected.
(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 211-212)
