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 depths? Still there is revealed as much as is sufficient for us to know; and the higher we advance in the regeneration, the more interior will our perception be of that stupendous event.

But there are many subjects connected with the Lord's resurrection which have received merely a passing notice, although they are filled with the most heavenly wisdom, and are adapted, when contemplated in a humble spirit, to illuminate the understanding and purify the heart. Of these subjects, the women on the one hand, and Peter and John on the other, who went to explore the sepulchre, are among the most striking. In the Holy Word, man has always a representative signification of truth, and woman of the affection of truth. Thus the women who went to the sepulchre, and who were representative of the several affections of the regenerate mind, displayed the purest and holiest affections; and Mary Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils—that is, all that was impure, degraded, and polluting, and who surrendered every desire, and sacrificed every feeling of self, that she might devote herself to the Lord—she represented the affections of pure love to the Lord himself. And on this account she alone beheld the vision of angels, one at the head, the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. And what did this typify? The Lord Jesus Christ is the very, the essential, the eternal Truth. The head and the feet of the Lord, as the highest and the lowest parts of the body, denote the inmost and the outmost. Thus was Mary permitted to behold the divine truth, both in relation to the Lord and to man; to behold Him as the Resurrection and the Life; to feel the assurance that, because He