Cuando comemos, nuestro cuerpo descompone los alimentos y obtiene de ellos tanto energía como materiales para construir y reparar el cuerpo.

El proceso es muy parecido a nivel simbólico en la Biblia. El alimento representa el deseo de bien y la comprensión que proviene de ese deseo de bien - la bondad y la comprensión que vienen del Señor. Pero para ponerlos en práctica tenemos que asimilarlos y hacerlos nuestros, lo cual es comer espiritualmente.

(Odkazy: Apocalipsis Revelado 89; Arcana Coelestia 3168, 3596 [2], 3734, 8410, 8464, 8467)

3168. 'And they ate and drank' means making one's own the good and truth introduced in this way. This is clear from the meaning of 'eating' as being communicated and joined together, thus being made one's own, dealt with in 2187, 2343, and more specifically (since 'eating' has reference to bread and 'bread' means good, 276, 680, 2165, 2177, 2187) making good one's own; and from the meaning of 'drinking' as being communicated and joined together, thus being made one's own, dealt with in 3089, and more specifically (since 'drinking' has reference to wine and 'wine' means truth, 1071, 1798) making truth one's own. The situation is as stated above in 3167, namely that when truth is introduced into good in the rational, more so when it is joined to it, the good and truth of the spiritual man, that is, spiritual things, become made over to the natural as its own.