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 the Divine Humanity, and wisdom and love flow in conjoining man to the Lord.

Having developed the principles appertaining to degrees, influx, and ultimates, this general statement may be made in regard to the Word. We can not communicate our affections and thoughts without ultimate signs or words. That the Lord might communicate His affections and thoughts to mankind, He formed a vehicle from man's language, ideas, and words, which constitute the letter of the Word; and He so formed it from correspondences and representatives that it has as its internal sense, the truth and life of heaven, and the Lord Himself is its inmost. The Lord thereby is in the letter of the Word as an ultimate in fulness, power, and holiness. Power and life pass from Him to its spirit, and thence to the letter of the Word just as affection passes to thought and thence to act. The spirit of the Lord, and hence the Lord Himself, is in the letter of the Word and operates it as the soul is in the body and operates it. The letter of the Word is thus in Correspondence with the Divine Humanity, whereby the Word is God. Therefore the Lord said, "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life."

Because the Word is in fulness and power in the ultimate letter, it has power on higher planes;