higher things place themselves in what is lowest in simultaneous
order, it follows that in the outmosts of the Word, which constitute the
sense of its letter, are all things of Divine truth and of Divine good,
even from their firsts. And as all things of Divine truth and Divine
good are together in their outmost, which is the sense of the letter of
the Word, there evidently is the power of Divine truth, yea, the
omnipotence of the Lord in saving man. For when the Lord operates He
operates not from first things through mediates into outmosts, but from
first things through outmosts and thus into mediates. This is why the
Lord is called in the Word the First and the Last; and this is why the
Lord assumed the Human, which in the world was Divine truth or the Word,
and glorified it even to outmosts, which are the bones and flesh, in
order that He might operate from first things through outmosts, and not
as before from man, but from Himself.

This power in outmosts was represented by the hair with the Nazirites,
as with Samson, for the hair with the Nazirites, as with Samson, for the
hair corresponds to the outmosts of Divine truth. And for this reason,
to produce baldness was regarded in ancient times as disgraceful.

The boys who called Elisha "bald head" were torn in pieces by bears,
because Elisha and Elijah represented the Word; and the Word without the
sense of the letter, which is like a head without hair, is destitute of
all power, and thus is no longer the Word. "Bears" signify those that
have strength from the outmost of truth.

The power of the Word in the sense of the letter is the power to open
heaven, whereby communication and conjunction are effected, and also the
power to fight against falsities and evils, thus against the hells. A
man who is in genuine truths from the sense of the letter of the Word
can disperse and scatter the whole diabolical crew and their devices in
which they place their power, which are innumerable, and this in a
moment, merely by careful thought and an effort of the will. In brief,
in the spiritual world nothing can resist genuine truths confirmed by
the sense of the letter of the Word (A.E., n. 1086.)

Now since all interior things, that is, the spiritual and celestial
things that are in the Words of the three heavens, are together in the
outmost sense of the Word, which is called the sense of the letter (for
in its inmosts there are the things that are in the Word that the