Verses 1-10. Concerning revelation from the Lord, that it is adapted to man in all his changes of state; and that it has relation to good, and truth, and their conjunction. Also that it is from Divine Good by Divine Truth; and that it is perpetual, being adequate to every state of conflict, and to every state of rest and peace.

Verses 11-13. Man's progress in regeneration is from a state of obscurity into a state of spiritual light.

Verses 14-17. It begins by a change as to the celestial things of love.

Verse 18-21. This causes changes as to its spiritual things successively, these proceeding from inmost affections to those which are relatively external.

Verses 22-24. It then follows that the inmost of the ultimate heaven, or of the natural degree, is affected, and makes progress in due order and subordination.

Verses 25-28. And, lastly, the external of the ultimate heaven, or of the natural degree, advances in a similar order and subordination; and thus the whole heaven, the whole church, or the whole individual, moves forward.

Verses 29-32. But not only so. For those who are in the truth of simple good, outside the church, are also influenced and make progress.

Verses 33-36. And, more than all, the Lord Himself is the Leader of His people, by means of the Word; while His church acknowledges that all progress is from Him, even through states of conflict into states of peace and rest continually.