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 Isaac and Jacob, can penetrate into the spiritual spheres. Our name in heaven will represent our entire spiritual quality. Names in the Bible always represent spiritual qualities. The "new name" written on the white stone is the new nature given to us by obedience to spiritual truth. The name inscribed in the Lamb's book of life, is the spiritual innocence of the regenerate. The name of the beast written on the forehead is the quality of evil inscribed on the interior life. The name of God was called unpronounceable by the Jews, indicating that the divine quality or essence is incomprehensible by man.

The words of this spiritual language were not constructed arbitrarily, or adopted by common consent as fixed signs of angelic ideas. They are created instantaneously by the influx of the divine life into and through the spiritual mind, and represent perfectly the affections and thoughts which have come down from within, to embody themselves in communicable sounds without, and be thereby transmitted to the neighbor.

This spiritual language, or language of ideas, is not therefore learned or taught like human languages, but it is organically implanted in every one. We come into conscious possession of it