134 HEAVEN and HELL §259
truth from which both angels and people on earth get all their wisdom.
It has in fact been spoken by the Lord, and what is spoken by the Lord
passes through all the heavens in sequence and comes to rest with us. In
this way it is adapted both to the wisdom that angels enjoy and to the
intelligence that we do. As a result, angels have a Word that they read
just as much as we do ours. They draw their doctrinal principles from it,
and their sermons come from it (§ 221 ). It is the same Word; but its natu-
ral meaning, which to us is its literal meaning, does not exist in heaven.
There is a spiritual meaning there instead, which is its inner meaning.
The nature of this meaning may be seen in the booklet The White Horse
Described in the Book of Revelation.260 Another time I was sent a small page from heaven with only a few
words written on it in Hebrew letters. I was told that each letter enfolded
treasures of wisdom, and that these were contained in the bends and
curves of the letters and therefore in the sounds as well. I could see from
this the meaning of the Lord’s words “I tell you in truth, until heaven
and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall pass away from the
law” (Matthew 5 : 18 ). It is acknowledged in the church that the Word is
divine right down to the smallest point, but where in each point the
Divine lies hidden—that is not known as yet, so it needs to be explained.
In the inmost heaven, the writing consists of various curving and bend-
ing forms, and these curves and bends are in keeping with the form of
heaven. Through them, angels express the treasures of their wisdom,
including many things that they cannot say in words. Believe it or not,
the angels know this writing without practice or teachers. They are
inwardly gifted with it as they are with the language itself (§ 236 ), so this
writing is heavenly writing. The reason they are inwardly gifted with it
is that all the outreach of angels’ thoughts and affections and therefore
all communication of their intelligence and wisdom takes place in keep-
ing with heaven’s form (§ 201 ). This is why their writing fl ows into that
same form.
I have been told that before letters were invented, the earliest humans
on our planet had this kind of writing, and that it was transferred into
the Hebrew letters, which in early times were all curved, with none
marked off by straight lines the way they are now. This is why there are
divine things and treasures of heaven in the Word even in its jots and
points and little horns.
261 This writing, which uses symbols of the heavenly form, is in use in the
inmost heaven, whose inhabitants enjoy greater wisdom than others. It