113. Through a good deal of experience I have been given to know that the Word is the means by which a person has a communication with heaven. When I read the Word from the first chapter of Isaiah to the last chapter of Malachi, and the Psalms of David, I was given to clearly perceive that each verse communicated with some society in heaven, and so the whole Word with the whole of heaven.
Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture #75
75. One may conclude from this the kind of wisdom that lies concealed in the Word that exists in the world. For concealed in it is all the wisdom of angels, which is beyond description. Indeed, the Word is the containing vessel of that wisdom. And a person comes into it after death if he is made an angel by the Lord through the Word.
