100. Few understand how the Lord is the Word, for it is generally supposed that the Lord, by means of the Word, can enlighten and teach men, and yet He cannot, on this account, be called the Word. It should be known, however, that every man is his own love, and consequently his own good and his own truth. A man is a man for no other reason than this, and there is nothing else in him that is man. For the same reason that man is his own good and his own truth, angels and spirits also are men; and for all good and truth proceeding from the Lord, is in its own form, man. But the Lord is Divine Good itself and Divine Truth itself; thus He is Man Himself, from whom every man is man. That all Divine Good and Divine Truth is, in its own form, man, may be seen in the work on HEAVEN AND HELL, No. 460; and will appear more clearly in the works that are to follow, which will treat of Angelic Wisdom.