698. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. THE HOLY SUPPER.

I. No one who does not know about the way natural things correspond with spiritual ones can know the benefits conferred by the Holy Supper.

A partial explanation of this was given in the chapter on baptism, where it was shown that without a knowledge of the spiritual sense of the Word it is impossible to know what is involved in and effected by the two sacraments, baptism and the Holy Supper (667-669). Here we say 'who does not know about the way natural things correspond with spiritual ones'; this is the same, because the natural sense of the Word is turned into the spiritual one by means of correspondences in heaven. That is why those two senses correspond to each other, so that anyone who knows the correspondences can know the spiritual sense. What correspondences are and what is their nature can be seen in the chapter on the Sacred Scripture from beginning to end, also in the explanation of the Ten Commandments from the first to the last, and in detail in Apocalypse Revealed.