2472. About the Lord's Word, that the very least things there are vessels into which life is poured by the Lord

When I was reading 1 Sam. 9 to the end, verses 1 Sam. 9:25 and 26, I saw by a spiritual mental image how inward regions are expressed there as high, as that Saul was invited to the high place [v. 19], that he was placed before the elite who were called [v. 22], that he went up to the top of the house with Samuel and spoke with him there [v. 25], that he rose up when the dawn arose [v. 26]. Mention is made there only of heights, which are also symbolic, such as "high place," "top of the house", "spring of the day," and other expressions, which linked together in the inward meaning make up the idea of a king, representing the head. But the connection is seen inwardly by the Angels from the Lord, because the expressions are joined to things that are not expressed, yet are contained in the ideas of the same words. For every word is like a vessel having an infinity of elements within that cannot be presented except in a deeper level of meaning, being connected by virtue of the mental images the words convey, which are not patent to the human mind except only as a literal meaning containing hardly anything.

Thus interiors, as said before [2445-2446], reflect the human as to its inward parts, for the inward parts of the body are all interacting with, as well as portraying, the inward regions of the heavens. 1748, 1 July.