New Church Life July/August 2017 | Page 22

n e w c h u r c h l i f e : j u ly / au g u s t 2 0 1 7 been laid, and there is an effort to keep the life in order, every time a person returns to the stories of the Word they will see something new, something deeper, something more Divine. Those are taught by the Lord who read the Word not for the sake of self and the world, but for the sake of good and truth itself, for then they are enlightened. But when men read it for the sake of self and the world, they are blinded. (Arcana Coelestia 9188) There is one other problem regarding the Word that needs to be addressed, and that is that man