1775. I have talked to certain spirits about the Word - that in the Lord's Divine Providence, it has been necessary for some revelation to be given; for such revelation, or the Word, is a general vessel that receives spiritual and celestial things, and in so doing joins heaven and earth together. Indeed without that revelation the two would have been set apart from each other, and the human race would have perished. I have referred as well to the fact that it was necessary for heavenly truths to exist somewhere from which man might receive instruction seeing that man was born for heavenly things and after his life in the body ought to come among those in heaven. For the truths of faith are the laws of order within the kingdom in which he is to live for ever.