508# 第六则可记之事：
一日，有一座华美的圣殿显现在我面前，形制方正；其顶如冠冕，上部作拱形，四周高起。殿墙皆为连续不断的水晶窗，殿门则由珍珠质构成。殿内南侧，靠近西方，有一讲坛；讲坛右侧放着展开的圣言，周围环绕着一层光明的氛围，其辉耀环绕并照亮整个讲坛。圣殿中央有至圣所；至圣所前原有幔子，此时却已揭开；其中立着一个金基路伯，手执一剑，左右挥动。
【2】我注视这些景象时，各样事物所表示的意义便流入我的沉思之中：那座圣殿表示新教会；珍珠质的门表示进入新教会的入口；水晶窗表示照明新教会的真理；讲坛表示祭司职分与讲道；讲坛上展开并照亮讲坛上部的圣言，表示圣言内在意义，即属灵意义，已经被揭示；殿中央的至圣所表示该教会与天使天堂的结合；其中的金基路伯表示字义上的圣言；他手中挥动的剑表示：字义可以被这样或那样转用，只要这种转用是按某一真理而施行；至圣所前的幔子已经揭开，则表示圣言如今已经开启。
【3】后来，我走近些，看见门上有一行字：现在可以。这表示：如今可以凭理智进入信仰的奥秘。
看见这行字以后，我心中便想到：若人凭理智进入由自我聪明、并由此出于伪谬所构成的信仰教义，是极其危险的；若再从圣言中确认这些教义，则更加危险。由此，理智先是在上层被关闭，随后渐渐在下层也被关闭，以致神学之事不仅令人厌烦，甚至被抹去，如同纸上的字迹被蛀虫蚀毁、衣料上的羊毛被蠹虫啮尽。所剩下的理智，只停留在关乎其属世生命的政治事务上，关乎其职分的公民事务上，以及关乎其家庭的家务事务上；并且在这一切事上，他不断亲吻自然，又因自然种种快乐的诱惑而爱它，如同拜偶像者爱怀中的金雕像。
【4】如今，由于今日基督教各教会中的教义，并非由圣言构成，而是由自我聪明，并由此出于虚假所构成，又借圣言中的若干内容加以确认；所以，出于主的圣治，圣言在罗马天主教中从平信徒手中被取去；而在新教徒中虽被打开，却仍被他们口中通行的一句话所关闭，即：理智必须被置于顺服他们信仰之下。
【5】但在新教会中，情形正相反。在此，人可以凭理智进入并探究其一切奥秘，也可以借圣言确认这些奥秘。其原因在于，新教会的教义乃是主借圣言所揭示的连续真理；而借合理之物对这些真理所作的确认，使理智在上方愈来愈开启，并因此被提升到天上天使所在之光中。此光在其本质上就是真理；在这光中，承认主为天地之上帝便在其荣耀中照耀出来。门上所写的“现在可以”，所指的正是这一点；至圣所前、基路伯面前的幔子被揭开，所指的也是这一点。因为新教会的一条准则是：虚假关闭理智，真理开启理智。
【6】此后，我看见头顶上方仿佛有一个婴孩，手中拿着一张纸。他渐渐近前时，身量便长成中等身材的人。他是来自第三层天堂的天使；那里所有天使从远处看都显为婴孩。他来到我身旁时，把那张纸递给我；但因纸上所写的是圆形字母，乃是那层天堂所用的文字，我便将纸还给他，请他们按适合我思想观念的语言，说出其中文字的意义。
于是他说：“其上所写的是：从今以后，要进入圣言此前一直关闭的奥秘；因为其中每一真理，都是主的一面镜子。”
508# 记事六：
有一天，我看到一座宏伟的圣殿，它呈四方形，殿顶呈皇冠状，周围有高耸的拱门。它的墙是连续的水晶窗，大门是珍珠物质的。在里面，南边朝西有一个讲坛，讲坛右边放着打开的圣言，圣言被一片光芒围绕，这片光芒的光辉笼罩并照亮了整个讲坛。圣殿的中心是圣所，圣所前面有一幅幔子，那时幔子被拉起来了；一个金基路伯站在那里，手里拿着一把四面转动的剑。
当我看到这些事物时，其中每一个事物的含义都流入我的脑海：圣殿表示新教会；珍珠物质的大门表示进入新教会的入口；水晶窗户表示光照新教会的真理；讲坛表示牧师的职位和讲道；讲坛上打开并照亮讲坛上半部分的圣言，表示现在被揭示出来的属灵的圣言内义；圣殿中心的圣所表示新教会与天使天堂的结合；它里面的金基路伯表示字义上的圣言；手中挥舞的剑表示字义可以转向任何方向，只要目的是将它应用于某个真理；基路伯面前的幔子被提起来，表示现在圣言被打开了。
后来，当我走近时，我看到门上刻有这样的铭文：“现在允许了。”这句话表示现在允许以理解力进入信仰的奥秘了。一看到这句话，我印象深刻的是，以理解力进入由自我聪明，因而由虚假构建的信仰教条，或说用理解力来探究这种信仰教条是极其危险的，从圣言来确认或支持它们则更危险。这样做会从上面关闭理解力，或说关闭理解力的较高层次，并逐渐从下面也关闭它，或说关闭它的较低层次，直到这种程度：神学不仅被轻视，或变得令人厌恶，还从心智中被抹去，就像纸上的字被虫子吃掉，衣服上的羊毛被衣蛾啃食一样。然后，理解力只关注与他在所属国家的生活有关的政治事务，与他的工作有关的民事事务，以及与自己的家庭有关的家庭事务。他在这一切事上不断亲吻自然界，或说拥抱物质界，因她快乐的诱惑而爱她，就像偶像崇拜者爱他怀里的金偶像一样。
从那以起，当今基督教会的教条就不是源于圣言，而是源于自我聪明，因而是由虚假构成的，还得到了来自圣言的某些经文的确认或证实。因此，按照主的圣治，在天主教徒当中，现在圣言从平信徒那里被夺走了，在新教徒当中被打开了，但又因他们普遍声称理解力必须服从他们的信仰而被关闭。
然而，在新教会，情况正好相反。在新教会，人被允许以理解力进入它的一切内在真理，并深入到它的一切秘密中，也被允许通过圣言来确认它们，因为新教会的教义是由主通过圣言揭示的一系列真理；通过理性论据或理性思考来确认这些真理，会使理解力越来越从上面被打开，从而把它提升到天堂天使所享有的光中。这光本质上就是真理，在这光中，对“主是天地之神”的承认在其一切荣耀中闪闪发光。这就是圣殿大门上的铭文“现在允许了”的意思，也是基路伯面前的圣所的幔子被拉起来的意思。因为新教会的原则是，虚假关闭理解力，真理打开理解力。
在这些事之后，可以说我看到头顶上有一个婴儿，手里拿着一张纸。随着他走近我，他逐渐达到了中等身材的人的身材。他是一位来自第三层天堂的天使，在那里，从远处看，所有天使看起来都像婴儿。当他来到我跟前时，他递给我那张纸；但由于上面的字是用第三层天堂所特有的弯曲字母写的，所以我把纸还给了他，请求他用适合我的思维观念的词语来解释一下纸上所写的这些话是什么意思。他回答说：“这里写的是：从今以后，进入圣言的奥秘吧；迄今为止，圣言一直是一本封闭的书；因为它的一切具体真理都是反映主的许多镜子。”
508. The sixth memorable occurrence. One day there appeared to me a magnificent temple, square in form. The roof was shaped like a crown - it arched upward and was elevated all around. The walls were continuous windows of crystal clear glass. The door was made of a pearly substance. On the southwest side of the interior there was a large raised pulpit, on top of which, to the right, the Word lay open, surrounded by a sphere of light so bright that it engulfed the whole raised area of the pulpit and made it shine. In the middle of the temple there was a sanctuary, with a veil at the front of it that was now lifted up. There an angel guardian, made out of gold, stood with a sword moving this way and that in its hand.
[2] Once I had looked carefully at all of these items, the meaning of each one flowed into my meditation. The temple means the new church. The door made of a pearly substance means our entry into the new church. The crystal clear windows mean the truths that enlighten the new church. The pulpit means its priesthood and preaching. The Word that lay open on the pulpit, lighting up the raised area of it, indicates that the Word's inner meaning, which is spiritual, has been revealed. The sanctuary in the middle of the temple means the partnership between the new church and the heaven of angels. The angel guardian made out of gold, standing in the sanctuary, means the literal meaning of the Word. The sword moving back and forth in its hand means that the literal sense can be turned this way and that, provided the purpose is to apply it to some truth. The fact that the veil in front of the angel guardian was lifted up means that the Word has now been opened to view.
[3] Later on, as I came closer to the building, I saw an inscription above the door: Now It Is Allowed, which means that we are now allowed to use our intellect to explore the mysteries of faith.
Seeing this inscription brought to my mind how extremely dangerous it is to use our intellect to explore any dogma of faith that was constructed by a self-serving mindset and therefore consists of falsities. It is even worse to use statements from the Word to support such dogmas. Doing so shuts down our intellect at its highest level, and gradually shuts it down at lower levels as well, to the point where theological teachings become disgusting to us and are finally obliterated, the way writing on paper is eaten away by worms or wool clothing is consumed by moths. Then the only way in which our intellect still functions is in dealing with political issues that affect our life in the region where we live, with civic issues that affect our jobs, and with domestic issues that relate to our homes. In these arenas we continually embrace the material world and love it for the alluring pleasures it offers, the way idolaters carry their golden effigy close to their heart.
[4] The dogmas of the Christian churches of today have been constructed not from the Word but under a self-serving mindset; as a result they consist of falsities. These dogmas have also been supported by certain statements in the Word. Therefore in the Lord's divine providence the Word was taken away from the Roman Catholic laity; and although the Word was opened up for Protestants, they closed it by their widespread assertion that the intellect has to be held under obedience to their faith.
[5] In the new church, however, the opposite happens. In this church, we are allowed to use our intellect to explore and penetrate all the church's mysteries and also to use the Word to support what we find. The reason this is allowed is that the teachings of the new church are continuous truths revealed by the Lord through the Word. Rational arguments that support these truths cause the intellect to open up more and more at its highest level and to be elevated into the light that the angels in heaven enjoy. That light is essentially truth. In that light, acknowledgment of the Lord as the God of heaven and earth shines in its glory. This is the meaning of the inscription Now It Is Allowed over the door to the temple, and the meaning of the fact that the sanctuary veil in front of the angel guardian was lifted up. It is a principle of the new church, you see, that falsities shut down the intellect but truths open it up.
[6] Afterward I saw someone like a young child overhead, holding a piece of paper in his hand. As he came nearer to me, he grew into a person of medium height. He was an angel from the third heaven, where all the inhabitants appear from a distance like little children. When he was in my presence, he handed me the piece of paper. Because it was written in the curved letters they use in that heaven, however, I handed it back and asked that they express the meaning of the message in words adapted to the ideas in my thinking. He replied, "What is written there is this: 'From now on, explore the mysteries of the Word, which was formerly closed up. All of its individual truths are mirrors that reflect the Lord. '"
508. The sixth experience.
One day a magnificent church building appeared to me; it was square in plan with a roof like a crown, with arches above and a raised parapet running around. Its walls were all windows made of crystal, its door of a pearly substance. Inside on the south side towards the west there was a platform, on which the open Word lay at the right surrounded by a blaze of light, so bright as to spread round and light up the whole platform. In the middle of the church was a shrine with a curtain in front of it; but this was now raised and there stood a golden cherub with a sword which he brandished in all directions in his hand.
[2] When I caught sight of all this, as I meditated, the meaning of each of the details came flooding into my mind. The church meant the new church; the door of a pearly substance, entry into it; the windows of crystal the truths which enlighten it; the platform the priesthood and their preaching; the Word on it, open and lighting up the top of the platform, the revelation of its internal, or spiritual, sense; the shrine in the middle of the church the link of that church with the heaven of angels; the golden cherub there the Word in its literal sense; the sword brandished in his hand meant that this sense can be twisted in different ways, so long as it is made to refer to some truth. The lifting of the curtain in front of the cherub meant that now the Word was laid open.
[3] Later, when I got closer, I saw there was an inscription over the door: NOW IT IS PERMITTED. This meant that now it is permitted to enter with the understanding into the mysteries of faith. Seeing this inscription led me to think that it is extremely dangerous to enter with the understanding into the dogmas of faith which have been put together out of one's own intelligence and the falsities it produces, and even more so to seek to support them by quoting the Word. This has the effect of shutting off the understanding at the top and little by little also at the bottom, to such an extent that theology is not only disliked but actually wiped out, like the writing on a paper being destroyed by book-worms, or the wool of a piece of cloth by grubs. His understanding then concerns itself only with political affairs which affect his life in the country where he lives, and with civil affairs relating to his official duties, and with domestic affairs of his household; and in all of these he constantly embraces nature, being led by the enticement of its pleasures to love it, as an idolater does the golden image in his lap.
[4] Now since the dogmas of present-day Christian churches are put together not from the Word, but from people's own intelligence and the false ideas that come from that, and also by means of some ideas supported from the Word, for this reason the Lord's Divine providence has seen to it that among Roman Catholics the Word has been taken away from laymen, while among Protestants it remains open, though shut off by their frequent saying that the understanding must be kept in obedience to their faith.
[5] But in the new church the opposite happens; here it is permitted with the understanding to approach and penetrate all its secrets, and also to support them from the Word. The reason is that its doctrines are a series of truths revealed by the Lord through the Word; and proving them by rational argument causes the understanding to be opened up above more and more. This lifts it into the light enjoyed by the angels of heaven; and that light is in essence truth, and it makes the acknowledgment of the Lord as the God of heaven and earth shine out in all its glory. This is what the inscription 'NOW IT IS PERMITTED' over the door means; and the removal of the curtain of the shrine in front of the cherub has the same meaning. It is a rule in the new church that falsities shut off the understanding, and truths open it up.
[6] After this I saw what looked like a child overhead, holding a paper in his hand. As he approached me, he grew in size until he was a man of average height. He was an angel from the third heaven; all there look at a distance like children. When he reached me, he held the paper out to me. But since it was written in the rounded script customary in that heaven, I gave it back and asked them to expound the meaning of what was written on it in words I could comprehend in my thinking.
'What is written here,' he replied, 'is: FROM NOW ON ENTER INTO THE MYSTERIES OF THE WORD WHICH HAVE SO FAR BEEN HIDDEN: FOR EACH ONE OF ITS TRUTHS IS A MIRROR IN WHICH WE SEE THE LORD.'
508. Sixth Memorable Relation:
One day there appeared to me a magnificent temple, square in form, the roof of which was crown-shaped, arched above and raised round about; its walls were continuous windows of crystal; its door was of a pearly substance. Within, on the south side, towards the west was a pulpit, on the right-hand side of which lay the open Word enveloped in a sphere of light, the splendor of which surrounded and illuminated the whole pulpit. In the center of the temple was a sanctuary, before which there was a veil, at that time raised, and there a golden cherub stood with a sword turning hither and thither in his hand.
[2] While I looked at these things, the significance of each one of them flowed into my meditation: The temple signified the New Church; the door of pearly substance, entrance into it; the windows of crystal, the truths that enlighten it; the pulpit, the priesthood and preaching; the Word lying open upon the pulpit and illuminating the upper part of it, signified the revelation of the internal sense of the Word, which is spiritual; the sanctuary in the center of the temple signified the conjunction of that church with the angelic heaven; the golden cherub therein, the Word in the sense of the letter; the sword waving in his hand signified that this sense can be turned in any direction, provided it is done in adaptation to some truth; the veil before the cherub being raised, signified that the Word is now laid open.
[3] Afterward, when I drew nearer, I saw this inscription above the door, Nunc Licet - It is now permitted - which signified that it is now permitted to enter understandingly into the mysteries of faith. From seeing this inscription it came into my thought that it is exceedingly dangerous to enter with the understanding into dogmas of faith that are concocted out of self-intelligence, and therefore out of falsities, and still more so to confirm them from the Word; by this means the understanding is closed above, and gradually below as well, to such a degree that theology is not only despised but also obliterated from the mind, as writing on paper is by worms, or the wool of a garment by moths. Then the understanding abides only in political matters, which have regard to man's life under the government where he is, and in the civil matters pertaining to his employment, and in the domestic affairs of his own house. And in all these things he constantly kisses nature, and owing to the allurements of her pleasures, loves her as an idolater loves the golden image in his bosom.
[4] Since then, the dogmas of the present Christian churches have not been formed from the Word, but from self-intelligence, and therefore from falsities, and also have been confirmed by certain passages from the Word; by the Lord's Divine Providence the Word among the Roman Catholics has been taken from the laity, and among Protestants has been opened, and yet has been closed by their common declaration that the understanding must be held in obedience to their faith.
[5] But in the New Church the contrary is the case; there it is permitted to enter with the understanding and penetrate into all her secrets, and to confirm them by the Word, because her doctrines are continuous truths laid open by the Lord by means of the Word, and confirmations of these truths by rational means cause the understanding to be opened above more and more, and thus to be raised into the light in which the angels of heaven are. That light in its essence is truth, and in that light acknowledgment of the Lord as the God of heaven and earth shines in its glory. This is what is meant by the inscription Nunc Licet over the door of the temple, and also by the veil of the sanctuary before the cherub being raised. For it is a canon of the New Church, that falsities close the understanding, and that truths open it.
[6] After this I saw above my head something like an infant, holding in his hand a paper. As he drew near to me, he increased to the stature of a medium-sized man. He was an angel from the third heaven, where all at a distance look like infants. When he came to me, he handed me the paper; but as the writing was in rounded letters, such as they have in that heaven, I returned the paper, and asked him to explain to me the meaning of the words there written, in terms adapted to the ideas of my thought.
He replied, "This is what is here written: Enter hereafter into the mysteries of the Word, which has been heretofore shut up; for the particular truths therein are so many mirrors of the Lord."
508. 1 The sixth experience. One day there appeared to me a magnificent temple. It was square in form, and its roof was in the shape of a crown, with its lofty arches rising on high all round. Its walls were continuous windows of crystal and its gate of pearly substance. Within on the south side, and facing the west was a pulpit on the right of which lay the open Word, surrounded with a blaze of light whose brightness enveloped and illumined the whole pulpit. In the centre of the temple was the shrine, before which a veil was hung. This was now drawn back, and there stood a golden cherub having in his hand a sword which he waved this way and that.
[2] While I was looking at these things there flowed into my thought a perception of what they all signified. The temple signified the New Church; the gate of pearl, entrance into this Church; the windows of crystal, the truths which enlighten it; and the pulpit, the priesthood and preaching. The Word open upon the pulpit and illuminating the upper part of it, signified its internal sense, which is spiritual, now revealed; the shrine in the centre of the temple, the conjunction of that Church with the angelic heaven; and the golden cherub within it, the Word in the sense of the Letter. The waving of the sword in the hand of the cherub signified that the sense of the Letter can be turned this way and that, provided this is done in application to some truth; and the drawing aside of the veil before the cherub signified that now the Word is opened.
[3] When I approached nearer I saw this inscription over the gate, "Now it is permitted" (Nunc licet); which signified that one may now enter with understanding into the mysteries of faith. On seeing this inscription I was impressed with the thought that it is extremely dangerous to enter with the understanding into dogmas of faith which are the product of man's own intelligence, and therefore consist of falsities; and still more dangerous to confirm them from the Word. For this closes the higher reaches of the understanding, and gradually the lower also, to such a degree that matters of a theological nature not only become distasteful, but drop out of the mind completely, like writing from a worm-eaten book and the nap from moth-eaten cloth. The understanding is then engaged only with political matters that concern a man's life in the state to which he belongs, with civil affairs that relate to his own employment, and with the domestic affairs of his own household. In all these a man devotes himself to nature, and loves her for the allurements of her pleasures, as an idolater loves the golden image he hugs to his bosom.
[4] The dogmas of the Christian Churches at the present day are not derived from the Word, but are the product of man's own intelligence, thus consisting of falsities, and they have, moreover, been confirmed by some passages from the Word. Therefore, among Roman Catholics, of the Divine Providence of the Lord, the Word has now been taken out of the hands of the laity; but among Protestants, it is an open Book, although it is closed where it is maintained, as is commonly asserted, that the understanding is to be kept under obedience to their faith.
[5] It is otherwise, however, in the New Church. Here one is permitted to enter with the understanding into all its interior truths, and also to confirm them by the Word. The reason is that its doctrines are truths in series from the Lord, revealed by means of the Word; and confirmation of these by rational considerations opens the higher reaches of the understanding and so elevates it into the light which the angels of heaven enjoy. This light in its essence is truth, and in this light the acknowledgment of the Lord as the God of heaven and earth shines in all its glory. This is meant by the inscription over the gate of the temple, "Now it is permitted" (Nunc licet), and also by the veil of the shrine being drawn aside before the cherub. For it is a canon of the New Church that falsities close the understanding and truths open it.
[6] After these things I saw, as it were, an infant overhead, holding in his hand a paper. As he approached me, he gradually attained the stature of a man of middle height. He was an angel from the third heaven, where all at a distance appear as infants. When he reached me, he handed me the paper; but as it was written in the curved letters peculiar to that heaven, I gave it back to him requesting that some of the angels there might express the meaning of the words in terms adapted to the ideas of my thought. He returned it; and this is what was written: "Henceforward enter into the mysteries of the Word, which has hitherto been a closed Book; for all its truths are so many mirrors of the Lord."
Footnotes:
1. This number is in quotation marks in Original Edition... It was square in form, formae quadratae. In Index Memorabilum LV we read: Visum est Templum rotundum.
508. 1 "SEXTUM MEMORABILE: Quodam die apparuit mihi Templum magnificum formae quadratae, cujus Tectum erat instar Coronae, arcuatum 2 supra, et elevatum circum circa; Parietes ejus erant continuae Fenestrae ex Chrystallis, Porta ex substantia margaritica; intus ad latus meridionale occidentem versus erat Suggestum, super quo ad dextrum jacuit Verbum apertum cinctum sphaera lucis, cujus splendor totum suggestum circuibat et illuminabat; in medio Templi erat Adytum, ante quod Velum, sed nunc sublatum, ubi stetit Cherubus ex auro cum ense huc illuc se vibrante in manu.
[2] Haec dum conspicatus sum, in meditationem meam, quid singula illa significarent, influxit; videlicet, quod Templum illud significaret Novam Ecclesiam; Porta ex substantia margaritica Introitum in illam; Fenestrae ex Chrystallis, Veritates, quae illustrabant illam; Suggestum Sacerdotium et praedicationes; Verbum super illo apertum, et superiorem partem suggesti illuminans, Sensum ejus internum qui spiritualis est, revelatum; Adytum in medio Templi, conjunctionem illius Ecclesiae cum Coelo angelico; Cherubus ex auro inibi, Verbum in sensu literae; Ensis se vibrans in manu ejus, significabat quod hic sensus huc illuc verti possit, modo hoc fit applicate ad quandam Veritatem; quod Velum ante Cherubum esset sublatum, significabat quod nunc patefactum sit Verbum.
[3] Postea, cum propius accessi, vidi Scripturam super Porta, hanc, NUNC LICET, quod significabat, quod nunc liceat intellectualiter intrare in Arcana fidei. Ex hac Scriptura visa incidit in cogitationem meam, quod valde discriminosum sit intellectu intrare in dogmata fidei, quae ex propria intelligentia, et inde ex falsis, conflata sunt, et plus adhuc illa ex Verbo confirmare, inde occluditur Intellectus superius, et pedetentim inferius, in tantum, ut Theologica non modo fastidiantur, sed etiam obliterentur, quemadmodum scriptura chartae tineis, et lana panni blattis, permanente solum intellectu in politicis quae spectant vitam suam in dominio ubi est, et in civilibus quae functionis ejus sunt, et in domesticis quae ejus domus sunt, ac in his et illis continue osculatur naturam, et illam ex illecebris voluptatum ejus amat, sicut Idololatra aureum sculptile in suo gremio.
[4] Nunc quia dogmata in Ecclesiis Christianis hodiernis non ex Verbo, sed ex propria intelligentia, et inde ex falsis, conflata sunt, et quoque per aliqua ex Verbo confirmata, ideo ex Divina Domini Providentia Verbum apud Romano-Catholicos ademptum est Laicis, et apud Protestantes illud apertum, sed usque occlusum per commune oris illorum effatum quod Intellectus captandus sit sub obedientia fidei illorum.
[5] At in Nova Ecclesia fit inversum, in hac licitum est intellectu ingredi et penetrare in omnia ejus Secreta, et quoque per Verbum confirmare illa; causa est, quia Doctrinalia ejus sunt continuae Veritates a Domino per Verbum detectae, et confirmationes illarum per rationalia efficiunt, ut Intellectus aperiatur supra plus et plus, et sic elevetur in lucem, in qua sunt Angeli Coeli; et Lux illa in sua essentia est Veritas, et in hac Luce agnitio Domini pro Deo Coeli et Terrae splendet in sua gloria. Hoc intelligitur per Scripturam super porta Templi, NUNC LICET, et quoque per quod Velum adyti ante Cherubum sublatum sit; Canon enim Novae Ecclesiae est, quod falsitates occludant intellectum, et quod veritates aperiant illum.
[6] Post haec vidi sicut Infantem supra caput, tenens in manu Chartam; ille sicut ad me appropinquavit, succrevit in staturam mediocris hominis; erat Angelus e Coelo tertio, ubi omnes e longinquo apparent sicut Infantes; dum apud me erat, porrexit mihi Chartam, sed quia literis circinnatis, qualibus in illo Coelo, scripta erat, restitui, et petii, ut ipsi expromerent sensum verborum ibi vocibus adaequatis ideis cogitationis meae, et retulit, hoc ibi scriptum est, INTRATE POSTHAC IN MYSTERIA VERBI HACTENUS OCCLUSI, NAM SINGULAE VERITATES EJUS SUNT TOTIDEM SPECULA DOMINI."
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