Heaven and its Wonders and Hell. Emanuel Swedenborg

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СКАЧАТЬ all things of heaven are shared with everyone there, so, too, are all things of the Divine which makes heaven and fills it, as has been shown in the preceding chapters.

      86. Those in heaven wonder that men can believe themselves to be intelligent who, in thinking of God, think about something invisible, that is, inconceivable under any form; and that they can call those who think differently unintelligent and simple, when the reverse is the truth. They add, "Let those who thus believe themselves to be intelligent examine themselves, whether they do not look upon nature as God, some the nature that is before their eyes, others the invisible side of nature; and whether they are not so blind as not to know what God is, what an angel is, what a spirit is, what their soul is which is to live after death, what the life of heaven in man is, and many other things that constitute intelligence; when yet those whom they call simple know all these things in their way, having an idea of their God that He is the Divine in a human form, of an angel that he is a heavenly man, of their soul that is to live after death that it is like an angel, and of the life of heaven in man that it is living in accord with the Divine commandments." Such the angels call intelligent and fitted for heaven; but the others, on the other hand, they call not intelligent.

      EXTRACTS FROM THE ARCANA COELESTIA RELATING TO THE LORD AND HIS DIVINE HUMAN.

      [2] The Divine was in the Lord from very conception (n.

       4641, 4963, 5041, 5157, 6716, 10125).

      The Lord alone had a Divine seed (n. 1438).

      His soul was Jehovah (n. 1999, 2004, 2005, 2018, 2025).

      Thus the Lord's inmost was the Divine Itself, while the clothing was from the mother (n. 5041).

      The Divine Itself was the Being [Esse] of the Lord's life, and from this the Human afterwards went forth and became the outgo [existere] from that Being [Esse] (n. 3194, 3210, 10269, 10738).

      [3] Within the church where the Word is and by it the Lord is known, the Lord's Divine ought not to be denied, nor the Holy that goes forth from Him (n. 2359).

      Those within the church who do not acknowledge the Lord

       have no conjunction with the Divine; but it is otherwise

       with those outside of the church (n. 10205).

      The essential of the church is to acknowledge the Lord's

       Divine and His union with the Father (n. 10083, 10112,

       10370, 10730, 10738, 10816–10820).

      [4] The glorification of the Lord is treated of in the

       Word in many passages (n. 10828).

      And in the internal sense of the Word everywhere (n. 2249,

       2523, 3245).

      The Lord glorified His Human, but not the Divine, since

       this was glorified in itself (n. 10057).

      The Lord came into the world to glorify His Human (n.

       3637, 4287, 9315).

      The Lord glorified His Human by means of the Divine love

       that was in Him from conception (n. 4727).

      The Lord's life in the world was His love towards the

       whole human race (n. 2253).

      The Lord's love transcends all human understanding (n.

       2077).

      The Lord saved the human race by glorifying His Human (n.

       4180, 10019; 10152, 10655, 10659 10828).

      Otherwise the whole human race would have perished in

       eternal death (n. 1676).

      The state of the Lord's glorification and humiliation (n.

       1785, 1999, 2159, 6866).

      Glorification in respect to the Lord is the uniting of His

       Human with the Divine; and to glorify is to make Divine

       (n. 1603, 10053, 10828).

      When the Lord glorified His Human He put off everything

       human that was from the mother, until at last He was not

       her son (n. 2159, 2574, 2649, 3036, 10830).

      [5] The Son of God from eternity was the Divine truth in heaven (n. 2628, 2798, 2803, 3195, 3704).

      When the Lord was in the world He made His Human Divine truth from the Divine good that was in Him (n. 2803, 3194, 3195, 3210, 6716, 6864, 7014, 7499, 8127, 8724, 9199).

      The Lord then arranged all things in Himself into a

       heavenly form, which is in accord with Divine truth (n.

       1928, 3633).

      For this reason the Lord was called the Word, which is

       Divine truth (n. 2533, 2813, 2859, 2894, 3393, 3712).

      The Lord alone had perception and thought from Himself,

       and this was above all angelic perception and thought (n.

       1904, 1914, 1919).

      The Divine truth which was Himself, the Lord united with

       Divine good which was in Himself (n. 10047, 10052, 10076).

       The union was reciprocal (n. 2004, 10067).

      [6] In passing out of the world the Lord also made His

       Human Divine good (n. 3194, 3210, 6864, 7499, 8724, 9199,

       10076).

      This is what is meant by His coming forth from the Father

       and returning to the Father (n. 3194, 3210). Thus He

       became one with the Father (n. 2751, 3704, 4766).

      Since that union Divine truth goes forth from the Lord (n. 3704, 3712, 3969, 4577, 5704, 7499, 8127, 8241, 9199, 9398). How Divine truth goes forth, illustrated (n. 7270, 9407).

      It was from His own power that the Lord united the Human with the Divine (n. 1616, 1749, 1752, 1813, 1921, 2025, 2026, 2523, 3141, 5005, 5045, 6716).

      From this it is clear that the Lord's Human was not like

       the human of any other man, in that it was conceived from

       the Divine Itself (n. 10125, 10825, 10826).

      His union with the Father, from whom was His soul, was not as between two persons, but as between soul and body (n. 3737, 10824).

      [7] The most ancient people could not worship СКАЧАТЬ