he Decalogue are
all things of the Word in brief can be seen only from the three senses
of those commandments, which are as above stated. (A.E., n. 1024).

What these three senses in the commandments of the Decalogue are can be
seen from the following summary explanation. The first commandment,
"Thou shalt not worship other gods beside Me," involves in the spiritual
moral sense that nothing else nor anyone else is to be worshipped as
Divine; nothing else, that is, Nature, by attributing to it something
Divine of itself; nor anyone else, that is, any vicar of the Lord or any
saint. In the celestial spiritual sense it involves that one God only
is to be acknowledged, and not several according to their qualities, as
the ancients did, and as some heathens do at this day, or according to
their works, as Christians do at this day, who make out one God because
of creation, another because of redemption, and another because of
enlightenment.

This commandment in the Divine celestial sense involves that the Lord
alone is to be acknowledged and whorshipped, and a trinity in Him,
namely, the Divine itself from eternity, which is meant by the Father,
the Divine Human born in time, which is meant by the Son of God, and the
Divine that goes forth from both, which is meant by the Holy Spirit.
These are the three senses of the first commandment in their order.
From this commandment viewed in its threefold sense it is clear that it
contains and includes in brief all things that concern the essence of
the Divine.

The second commandment, "Thou shalt not profane the name of God,"
contains and includes in its three senses all things that concern the
quality of the Divine, since "the name of God" signifies His quality,
which in its first sense is the Word, doctrine from the Word, and
worship of the lips and of the life from doctrine; in its second sense
it means the Lord's kingdom on the earth and the Lord's kingdom in the
heavens; and in its third sense it means the Lord's Divine Human, for
this is the quality of the Divine itself.

In the other commandments there are likewise three internal senses for
the three heavens; but these, the Lord willing, will be considered
elsewhere. (A.E., n. 1025.)

As the Divine truth united to Divine good goes forth from the Lord as a
sun, and by this heaven and the world were made (John i. 1, 3, 10), it
follows that it is from this that all things in heaven and in the world
have reference to good