Heaven and Hell (Harley) n. 101

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101. A truth that must by all means be known is that all correspondence with heaven is with the Lord's Divine Human, because heaven is from Him and He is heaven, as has been shown in previous sections. For if the Divine Human did not inflow into all things of the world, there would be neither angel nor man. From this, again, it is evident why the Lord became Man, and clothed His Divine with a Human from first to last. It was because the Divine Human which was the source of heaven before the Lord's coming was no longer sufficient to sustain all things, for the reason that man, who is the foundation of the heavens, had weakened and destroyed order. The nature and quality of the Divine Human which was before the coming of the Lord, and what the condition of heaven was at that time, may be seen in collected extracts appended to the preceding section.


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