Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 305

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305. The Lord thus made His Human Divine. The Lord's Human is Divine, because He had His soul from the Esse of the Father; illustrated by a father's likeness in his children, nos. 10269, 10372, 1082. And because it is from the Divine Love which is in Him, no. 6872. Every man is such as his love is, and he is his own love, nos. 6872, 10177, 10284. The Lord was Divine Love, nos. 2077, 2253. The Lord made His whole Human, the internal as well as the external, Divine, nos. 1603, 1815, 1902, 1926, 2093, 2803. Wherefore He rose again as to the whole body differently from any other man, nos. 1729, 2083, 5078, 10825. That the Lord's Human is Divine, is acknowledged by the omnipresence of His Human in the Holy Supper, nos. 2343, 2359. It is evident also from His transfiguration before the three disciples, no. 3212. And likewise from the Word, no. 10154. And, that He is there called Jehovah, nos. 1603, 1736, 1815, 1902, 2921, 3035, 5110, 6281, 6303, 8864, 9194, 9315. In the sense of the letter a distinction is made between the Father and the Son, that is, between Jehovah and the Lord, but not in the internal sense, in which are the angels of heaven, no. 3035. The Christian world does not acknowledge the Lord's Human as Divine, which was done in council for the sake of the Pope, that he might be acknowledged as the Lord's vicar; from conversation in the other life, with those [who had then been present], no. 4738. The Divine Human from eternity was the Divine Truth in heaven, thus the Divine Existere, which afterwards became in the Lord the Divine Esse, from which is the Divine Existere in heaven, nos. 3061, 6280, 6880, 10579. The quality of the state of heaven previously, nos. 6371-6373. The Divine was not perceptible, and therefore not capable of being received, except as it passed through heaven, nos. 6982, 6996, 7004. The Lord from eternity was the Divine Truth in heaven, nos. 2803, 3195, 3704. This is the Son of God born from eternity, nos. 2628, 2798. No other Divine is perceived in heaven except the Divine Human, nos. 6475, 9303, 9356, 10067. The most ancient people could not adore the infinite Esse, but the infinite Existere, which is the Divine Human, nos. 4687, 5321. The ancients acknowledged the Divine, because it appeared in a human form, and this was the Divine Human, nos. 5110, 5663, 6846, 10737. The inhabitants of all the earths adore the Divine under a human form, and they rejoice when they hear that God actually became a man, nos. 6700, 8541-8547, 9361, 10736-10738. See also the little work on The Earths in our Solar System and in the Starry Heaven. God can only be thought of in the human form, and that which is incomprehensible does not enter into the idea, nos. 9359, 9972. A man can worship him of whom he has some idea, but not him of whom he has no idea, nos. 4733, 5110, 5663, 7211, 9356, 10067. Wherefore by most in the whole world the Divine is worshipped under a human form, which is due to an influx from heaven, no. 10159. All who are in good as to life when thinking of the Lord, think of a Divine Human, but not of a Human separated from the Divine, nos. 2326, 4724, 4731, 4766, 8878, 9193, 9198. Those in the Church at the present time who are in evil as to life, as well as those who are in a faith separated from charity, think of the Lord's Human apart from the Divine; they also do not comprehend what the Divine Human is: the causes thereof, nos. 3212, 3241, 4689, 4692, 4724, 4731, 5321, 6371, 8878, 9193, 9198.


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