For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.
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For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.
It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
The word of God is that unto our souls, which our soul is unto our body.
It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
The soul of the world is in the whole world, and is everywhere so adapted to matter that, at each place, it produces the proper subject and causes the proper actions.
To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.
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