222. 'As I have overcome, and am seated with the Father in His throne' signifies as He and the Father are one, and are heaven. That the Father and the Lord are one has been fully shown in THE DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CONCERNING THE LORD; again elsewhere, that heaven is not heaven out of the propria of the angels, but out of the Divine of the Lord that is in the angels and with them; therefore by this [saying] 'as I am seated with the Father in His throne' is signified as He and the Father are one, and are heaven. The 'throne is heaven (n. 14, 221). 'As I have overcome' signifies that by means of the temptations admitted into His Human, and by means of the utmost limit thereof which was the passion of the cross, also by the fulfilling of all things of the Word, He has overcome the hells and glorified His Human; that is, He has united it to His own Divine that was in Him as a result of the conception, and is called Jehovah the Father. Concerning which things [something] may be seen in THE DOCTRINE or THE NEW JERUSALEM CONCERNING THE LORD mentioned above (n. 8-11, 12-14, 29-36), and also above (n. 67). [2] The Lord says 'To him who overcomes will I grant to be seated with Me in My throne, as I have overcome and am seated with the Father in His throne', because the Lord's uniting with the Father, that is, with His own Divine in Himself, has as an end the possibility of a man's being conjoined in the Lord to the Divine that is called the Father since it is not possible that a man can be conjoined immediately to the Divine of the Father, but [only] mediately by means of His Divine Human, which is the Natural Divine. And therefore the Lord says:-
No man has seen God at any time, the Only-begotten Son Who is in the bosom of the Father, He has set [Him] forth John i 18;
and elsewhere:-
I am the Way, the Truth (veritas) and the Life, no man comes unto the Father but by Me John xiv 6.
[3] The conjunction of the Lord with a man is by means of His Divine Truth, and this in the man is of the Lord, thus the Lord, and not at all of the man, thus not the man. The man feels this indeed as his own, but still it is not his, for it is not united to him, but adjoined. The Divine of the Father is otherwise. This is not adjoined but united to the Lord's Human, as the soul is united to its own body. He who understands these things is able to understand the following words of the Lord:-
He who abides in Me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for without Me you can do nothing John xv 4, 5.
At that day, you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you John xiv 20.
Also these:-
Sanctify them in Thy truth (veritas); Thy word is the truth (veritas) for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may he sanctified in the truth (veritas); that they all may be one, as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us; I in them and Thou in Me John xvii 17, 19, 21, 23.
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