[2] Continuation [concerning Omnipresence and Omnipotence]. - 3. All the angels of heaven and all men on earth, who form the church, are as one man, and the Lord is the life of that man.

Proof of this point may be seen in Heaven and Hell, under the following articles:- 1st, That the whole heaven in totality has reference to one man (n. 59-67). 2nd, That each society in the heavens has reference to one man (n. 68-72). 3rd, That therefore every angel is in a perfect human form (n. 73-77); and 4th, That heaven in the whole and in part has reference to man, because it is from the Lord's Divine Human (n. 78-87); that there is also a correspondence between all things of heaven and all things of man (n. 87-102); that the same may be said of the Lord's church on earth (n. 57). Experience has taught me, and reason still teaches, that heaven is as it were one man.

Experience:- I have been permitted to see a society, consisting of thousands of angels, as one man of moderate stature; societies also consisting of fewer angels in a similar manner. This however is not apparent to the angels in any society, but to those who are out of and at a distance from it, and at such times as a society requires to be cleared of strangers. When this takes place, all those who make the life of the society, are within that Man and remain, but those who do not make it are outside of it; the latter are removed, but the former remain. The case is similar with the whole heaven in presence of the Lord.

[3] It is from this cause and from this cause alone, that every angel and spirit is a man, in a form similar to that which he possesses as a man on earth. I have not indeed seen, but I have heard, that the church also on earth is before the Lord as one man, that it is also divided into societies, and that each society is a man; and further, that all who are included within that man are within heaven, but those who are outside of it are in hell. The reason again of this has been stated, that every man belonging to the church is also an angel of heaven, for he becomes an angel after death. The church moreover on earth, together with the angels, forms not only the interiors of this man, but also the exteriors, which are called cartilaginous and bony. The church forms this, because men on earth are endued with a body, in which the ultimate spiritual is clothed with the natural, and it is this that constitutes the conjunction of heaven with the church, and of the church with heaven.

[4] From reason:- The sole reason why heaven and the church are a man in the greatest the less and the least concrete or totality is, that God is Man, and hence the proceeding Divine, which is the Divine from Him, is similar in everything that is man, least and greatest. For, as was said above, the Divine is not in space and extended, but it is the cause of space and extension, existing in the ultimates of His creation, in the heavens apparently, but in the world actually. But still space and extension are not space and extension before God, for He in His Divine is everywhere. This is clearly evident from the fact that the whole angelic heaven, together with the church, is in the presence of the Lord as one man. The same is the ease with a society consisting of thousands of angels, although their habitations appear to be extended through much space. It is also evident from this that the whole heaven and also an entire society in heaven, can, at the Lord's good pleasure, appear as a man, great or small, as a giant or as an infant. And yet it is not the angels that so appear, but the Divine in them; for the angels are only recipients of the Divine from the Lord, and the Divine in them forms their angelhood (angelicum), and consequently heaven. Because the angels are only recipients, and the Divine in them forms their angelhood and heaven, it is evident that the Lord is the life of this man, that is, of heaven and the church.