1225. Blessed are they that are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.- That this signifies that those who by means of truths from the Word are conjoined to the Lord and become the church will come into heaven, is evident from the signification of blessed, as denoting those who are in heaven, and who will come into heaven, for these are the blessed; and from the signification of supper, as denoting consociation by love, and communication (concerning which see above, n. 252); hence by the marriage supper of the Lamb is signified conjunction with the Lord, and thence communication with those who are of that church.
[2] Continuation [concerning Omnipresence and Omniscience]. - 6. From the Lord's omnipresence and omniscience thus perceived, the understanding is enabled to see how He is the All and the In-all of heaven and the church, and that we are in Him, and He in us.
By all things of heaven and of the church are meant the Divine Truth and the Divine Good; the former is from the light of the Sun of heaven, which is wisdom; the latter from its heat, which is love. In the measure that the angels are recipients of these, they are heaven generally, as well as heavens individually; and in the measure that men are recipients of them, they are the church generally, as well as churches individually. No angel possesses anything which forms heaven in him, and no man possesses anything which forms the church in him, except the Divine proceeding from the Lord. For it is well known that all the truth of faith and all the good of love are from the Lord, and no part of them from man. It is evident from this that the Lord is the All and the In-all of heaven and the church.
[3] The Lord teaches in John that we are in Him and He in us: Jesus said,
"He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me and I in him" (vi. 56).
Again:
"In that day ye shall know that ye are in me and I in you" (xiv. 20, 21); and elsewhere it is said that "in him we live, and move, and have our being" (Acts xvii. 28).
All the angels of heaven, and all the men of the church, are in the Lord, and the lord in them, when they are in that celestial Man spoken of above. Angels and men are then in the Lord, because they are recipients of life from Him, thus they are in His Divine; and the Lord is in them, because He is life in the recipients. From these things it is evident that all those who are in a natural idea concerning the Lord can have no other idea of His Divine Omnipresence, than as intuitive, although it is actual, like the omnipresence of the Holy Spirit, which is the proceeding Divine.
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