3473. The fact that the Word in the letter conceals such things within itself is quite often presented in a visual way to spirits or souls entering the next life. And when this has happened I have several times been allowed to be present, as becomes clear from the experiences introduced in Volume One under 'Sacred Scripture, or the Word, and how it conceals within itself Divine matters which are fully visible to good spirits and to angels', 1767-1776, 1869-1879. For the sake of confirmation let some of those experiences be repeated immediately below.