[2] Continuation [concerning Omnipresence and Omniscience]. - 4. Consequently as there is life in all the individual and most minute parts of man, and it is cognizant of their whole state, so the Lord is in all the individual and most minute things belonging to the angels of heaven, and to the men of the church.

The reason why there is life in all the individual and most minute parts of man is, that the various and diverse things existing in him, called members, organs, and viscera, numerous as they are, form so complete a unity that he has no other conception than that he is a simple, and not a complex being. That there is life in the minutest parts of a man is evident from the following facts. From his own life he sees, hears, smells, and tastes, and this would not be the case, unless the organs of those senses also lived from the life of his soul. The entire surface of his body is endued with the sense of touch; it is the life, and not the skin without it, which is the cause of this sense. All the muscles beneath the skin are under the control of the life of his will and understanding, and are moved at their pleasure; not only therefore are the hands and feet moved, and the entire body, but also the tongue, the lips, the face, and the whole head. Neither the one nor the other can be moved by the body alone, but by life from the will and the understanding, together with the life in the members themselves. The case is similar with all the viscera in the body, each fulfilling its own function, and acting with willing obedience, according to the laws of order inscribed upon them. It is life, however, which while man is unconscious of it, produces this activity, by means of motion in every part from the heart and the lungs; and by means also of sensation in the various parts, from the cerebellum.

[3] The reason why there is life in all the individual and most minute parts of man is, that the animal form, of which we have treated above, is the very form of life. For life from its primary source, which is the Sun of heaven or the Lord, is perpetually in the effort to form a likeness and image of itself, that is to say, man, and out of man an angel. Therefore from the ultimates which it created, it adjoined to itself substances suitable in form, by means of which man may exist, and in whom it may live. It is consequently plain, that there is life in the individual and most minute parts of man; and that the part or even the particle in which there is no life, dies and is cast-off. Since then men and angels are not lives, but only recipients of life from the Lord, and since the whole heaven, together with the church, is in the presence of the Lord as one man, it is evident that the Lord is the Life of that Man, that is, of heaven and the church, and further that He is omnipresent and omniscient in all the individual and most minute things belonging to the angels of heaven, and to the men of the church. Because the whole heaven together with the church is in the presence of the Lord as one man, great or small, according to His will, as a giant or as an infant, it is evident, that life or the Spiritual which proceeds from the Lord, is not in space, or extended with the angels of heaven, or with the men of the church, consequently that spaces and times must be removed from the ideas, in order that the Lord's Omnipresence and Omniscience with all men, collectively and individually, may be understood.