Divine Love and Wisdom (Harleys) n. 298

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298. It will be fully shown in what follows that man, as regards both his exteriors and his interiors, is a form of all uses, and that all the uses in the created universe correspond to those uses in him. Here it need only be mentioned in order that it may be known that God as a Man is a form itself of all uses from which form all the uses in the created universe derive their origin, and thus that the created universe, viewed as to uses, is an image of Him. Those things which, from God-Man, that is, from the Lord, are by creation in order, are called uses. But those things which are from man's proprium are not called uses, for the proprium is hell, and those things are contrary to order.


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