359. A person cannot be an image of God according to His likeness unless God is in him and inmostly is his life. The fact that God is in people and inmostly is their life follows from the observations demonstrated above in nos. 4-6, that God alone is life, and that people and angels are recipients of life from Him. It is known from the Word that God is in people and makes His abode in them.* And because this is known from the Word, it is customary for preachers to tell people to prepare themselves to receive God, that He may enter into them and be in their hearts, and that they may be His habitation. The devout speak likewise in their prayers. Some people speak still more openly so of the Holy Spirit, which they believe to be in them when they are in a state of holy zeal and are thinking, speaking and preaching in consequence of it. We have shown in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, nos. 50-53, that the Holy Spirit is the Lord, and not some God who is a person in Himself. For the Lord says, "On that day you will know that you (are) in Me, and I in you" (John 14:20). (So likewise John 15:4, 5, 17:23.) * E.g. John 6:56; 14:20, 23; 15:4, 5; 17:20-23, 26.