63. The literal sense makes possible an affiliation with angels in heaven because that sense has in it a spiritual sense and a celestial sense, and these are the senses that angels know — angels in the spiritual kingdom having the Word’s spiritual sense, and angels in the celestial kingdom having its celestial sense. These senses unfold from the Word’s natural sense, namely its literal sense, when a sincere person is intent on it. The unfolding is instantaneous, and accordingly also the affiliation.

8. Since the Word is inwardly spiritual and celestial, it has therefore been written solely in terms of correspondences, and something written solely in terms of correspondences is written in its outmost sense in the kind of style found in the Prophets and Gospel writers. Even though this style seems to be an ordinary one, still it conceals in it Divine wisdom and all the wisdom of angels.