1869、圣言的一句话到底包含多少事物，这一点已通过打开思维观念指给我看了。一个值得注意的事实是，在来世，观念能被如此生动地显示出来，以至于实际上变得可见，并取得一个形状，仿佛是画中的形像。一个在世上过着仁爱或相爱的生活，并以圣言为大乐的人就拥有如此打开的观念。当他的思维被打开时，不计其数的美丽事物，连同触动内心的快乐和愉悦就会出现。我被告知，如此显为可见的事物又拥有能进一步被打开的内层，并且当这些内层被打开时，更美丽、更快乐的事物，连同构成幸福本身的事物就会一起出现。所有天使观念都是这样，因为主亲自打开它们。
对惊讶于在来世，思维观念能如此被打开的灵人来说，这个问题是通过肉眼的视觉来说明的。肉眼的视觉如此微弱、模糊，以至于把自然界中的较小物体仅仅看作某种模糊、发黑且不成形的东西，尽管这些物体包含数不清的部分在里面。但当用显微镜观察这些物体时，内在部分就变得清晰起来；它们以一种优美的顺序相互联结，并按一种快乐的秩序彼此流动。若用功能更强大的显微镜来观察，就会看到这些部分能以同样的方式进一步被打开。这个例子清楚说明内视或内眼是何性质，其视线无非是观念：这些观念本身如此朦胧，以至于再朦胧的东西几乎不能存在于这个领域了，尽管人们不这么想。关于观念，蒙主的神性怜悯，详情容后再述（1971，1980，1981节）。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]1869. HOW much a single word of Scripture contains has been shown to me by a revelation of people's individual ideas. Surprising to say, ideas can be revealed so vividly in the other world that they actually become visible and take on a shape, as if they were images in a painting.
One individual whose ideas were revealed in this way was a person who had lived a life of charity, or mutual love, and had taken pleasure in the Word during his time in the world. When his thoughts were revealed, countless beautiful objects appeared, bringing with them a delight and pleasure that touched the heart. I learned that these visible manifestations have further inward layers that can be revealed, and when they are revealed, sights still more beautiful and delightful present themselves, bringing happiness itself with them. All angelic ideas are like this, because the Lord himself lays them open.
[2] Physical vision was used to illustrate this principle for a group of spirits who were amazed that a person's individual thoughts can be revealed this way in the other world. The sight of the eye is so weak and dim that it sees the smaller objects of the physical world simply as spots, dark and shapeless, although they hold within them too many parts to count. When the same objects are observed through a microscope, however, the inward parts come into focus, connected in a beautiful series and flowing from each other in an elegant pattern. These parts likewise could be laid open by an even stronger microscope. This showed what the case is with the inner eye, whose lines of sight are nothing but ideas: in themselves these ideas are about as hazy as anything can be in that realm — although human beings think otherwise. I will have more to say about people's ideas below, however, with the Lord's divine mercy [1971, 1980, 1981].
Potts(1905-1910) 1869
1869. CONTINUATION CONCERNING THE HOLY SCRIPTURE OR WORD How many things there are in a single word of the Word has been shown me by the opening of the ideas of thought. It is a remarkable fact that in the other life this can be done so to the very life that the ideas themselves appear visible in form, and thus like pictured images. One who during his life in this world had lived in charity or mutual love, and had taken great delight in the Word, had his ideas thus opened. There then appeared beautiful things beyond number, together with delicious and delightful things of an affecting nature, and it was said that the things which thus appear visible can be opened again as to their interiors, and that when these have been opened things still more beautiful and delightful are presented that are attended with happiness itself. Such are all angelic ideas, for they are open from the Lord Himself. [2] To spirits who wondered that ideas of thought could be so opened in the other life, this was illustrated by taking the case of the sight of the eye, the rays of vision of which are so dull and obscure that the smaller things in nature (which contain things innumerable) they see only as something opaque, black, and shapeless; but when the same objects are viewed through a microscope, things more interior are presented to view, connected in beautiful series and flowing in delightful order; and it is seen that these might in like manner be opened still more by a more powerful microscope. In this way such spirits have been shown how the case is with the internal sight, the rays of which are nothing but ideas, in that in themselves these ideas are so gross that anything more gross can scarcely exist in that sphere, although men think differently. But concerning ideas, of the Lord's Divine mercy hereafter.
Elliott(1983-1999) 1869
1869. SACRED SCRIPTURE OR THE WORD - continued
How many things are contained within a single expression of the Word has been demonstrated to me by an opening up to view of the ideas that comprise thought. In the next life this can be done - it being one of the marvels there - in so vivid a way that the ideas themselves may be seen in visible form, thus as coloured images so to speak. The ideas belonging to one who had led a life of charity or mutual love, and who during his lifetime had taken great delight in the Word, were opened up to view in that manner. Countless things that were beautiful were seen, together with those which were movingly delightful and pleasant. I was told that the things which are seen within such visible forms may be opened up further again as to their interiors, and once these have been opened, that still more beautiful and delightful things are manifested, together with those that constitute happiness itself. All angelic ideas are such, for they are laid open from the Lord Himself.
[2] To spirits who were surprised that in the next life the ideas comprising thought can be opened to view in such a manner, this matter was illustrated by taking as an example the sight of the eye, of which the powers of vision are so dull and dim that the smaller things of the natural world which have countless details in them are not seen except as something opaque, black, and patternless. But when the same objects are looked at under a microscope, things that are more interior are brought to view, linked one to another in a lovely sequence, and flowing in a delightful order. At the same time it was recognized that those objects too could have been opened up further still by a more powerful microscope. This illustration made clear the nature of internal sight, of which the powers of vision are nothing other than ideas; for in themselves those ideas are so gross that scarcely anything more gross is able to exist in that sphere, though man thinks otherwise. But more regarding ideas will in the Lord's Divine mercy be stated later on.
Latin(1748-1756) 1869
1869. Continuatio de Scriptura Sacra seu VerboOstensum mihi est quam multa uni voci Verbi insunt, per id quod ideae cogitationis apertae sint; in altera vita, quod mirabile, hoc fieri potest ita ad vivum ut ipsae ideae appareant visibiles in forma, sic quasi pictae imagines: apertae fuerunt ita ideae unius qui in charitate seu amore mutuo vixit, et delectatus fuit cum vixit in mundo, Verbo; tunc apparuerunt innumerabilia pulchra cum deliciosis et jucundis afficientibus; dictum quod haec quae ita apparent visibilia, iterum quoad interiora possint aperiri, quibus apertis quod adhuc pulchriora et deliciosiora cum ipsis felicibus sisterentur; omnes ideae angelicae tales sunt, nam illae apertae sunt ab Ipso Domino. [2] Illustratum hoc coram spiritibus qui mirati quod in altera vita ita ideae cogitationis aperiri queant, per visam oculi, cujus visionis radii tam hebetes et obscuri sunt, ut minora naturae in quibus innumerabilia, non aliter videant ac opacum quoddam et nigrum informe; at cum per microscopium eadem spectantur, sistuntur videnda interiora, pulchra serie connexa, et jucundo ordine fluentia; et quod haec similiter per acutius microscopium adhuc potuissent aperiri; ex his constare potuit quomodo se habet cum visu interno, cujus radii non alii sunt quam ideae, quod in se tam crassae sint, ut vix crassius in illa sphaera dari queat, tametsi homo aliter putat: sed de ideis, ex Divina Domini Misericordi in sequentibus.