Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 307

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307. The Lord in Heaven. The Lord appears in heaven as a sun and also as a moon: as a sun, to those who are in the celestial kingdom, and as a moon, to those who are in the spiritual kingdom, nos. 1053, 1521, 1529-1531, 3636, 3641, 4321, 5097, 7078, 7083, 7173, 7270, 8812, 10809. The light which proceeds from the Lord as a sun is Divine Truth, from which the angels have all wisdom and intelligence, nos. 1053, 1521-1533, 2776, 3138, 3195, 3222, 3223, 3225, 3339, 3341, 3636, 3643, 3993, 4180, 4302, 4415, 5400, 9399, 9407, 9548, 9571, 9684. And the heat which proceeds from the Lord as a sun, is Divine Good, from which the angels have love, nos. 3338, 3636, 3643, 5215. The very Divine of the Lord is far above His Divine in heaven, nos. 7270, 8760. The Divine Truth is not in the Lord, but proceeds from Him, as the light is not in the sun, but proceeds from it, no. 3969. Esse is in the Lord, and Existere is from the Lord, no. 3938. The Lord is the common centre to which all the angels in heaven turn themselves, nos. 3633, 9828, 10130, 10189. Nevertheless the angels do not turn themselves to the Lord, but the Lord turns them to Him, no. 10189: because the angels are not present with the Lord, but the Lord is present with them, no. 9415. The Lord's presence with the angels is according to their reception of the good of love and charity from Him, nos. 904, 4198, 4206, 4211, 4320, 6280, 6832, 7042, 8819, 9680, 9682, 9683, 10106, 10810. The Lord is present with all in heaven, and also in hell, no. 2706. The Lord wishes from the Divine Love to draw all men to Himself in heaven, no. 6645. The Lord is in a continual endeavour at conjunction with man; but influx and conjunction are impeded by a man's own loves, nos. 2041, 2053, 2411, 5696. The Lord's Divine Human flows into heaven, and causes heaven; and there is no conjunction with the very Divine in heaven, but with the Divine Human, nos. 3038, 4211, 4724, 5663. This Divine flows in with men out of heaven and through heaven, no. 1925. The Lord is the all of heaven, and He is the life of heaven, nos. 7211, 9128. The Lord dwells with the angels in His own, nos. 9338, 10125, 10151, 10157. Those therefore who are in heaven are in the Lord, nos. 3637, 3638. Heaven corresponds to the Lord's Divine Human, and man, as to each and all things, to heaven; wherefore heaven in general is as one Man, and is therefore called the Grand Man, nos. 2988, 2996, 3624-3629, 3636-3643, 3741-3745, 4625. The Lord is the only Man; and those only are men who receive the Divine from Him, no. 1894. So far as they receive the same, so far they are images of the Lord, no. 8547. The angels are forms of love and charity in a human form, and this is from the Lord, nos. 3804, 3735, 4797, 4985, 5199, 5530, 9879, 10177.


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