Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 486

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486. Collective and individual influences could not exist if God the Messiah were not ruling the universe

Unless God the Messiah were controlling the whole heaven, both that of angels and that of spirits, there could never be such an arrangement of all things in the heavens and below the heavens into kinds and species, that they could run concordantly in regard to all the lives of men, spirits and angels. For lives are feelings, and unless these derive from the one and only love, Who is Divine, and thus truly heavenly, the remaining kinds and species of feelings could never come forth and relate to one another. Therefore, feelings common [to many] compose a collective form, and one so well ordered that nothing better ordered is conceivable; and without such a horizontal and vertical ordering of feelings, no one could have life, for feeling is life. Thus do all feelings interact, just as all the parts do among themselves in one body. In this body all feelings exist in a comparable ranked order. Therefore, unless God the Messiah had become [an earthly] Human Being, and thus unless the universal heaven relates to Him as its body, the universe cannot possibly be kept in that order, and by the universe, thus by God the Messiah, all and each of angels, spirits and men. 1748, the 17th day of January. These things also were written with the agreement of angels.


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