Heaven and Hell (Harley) n. 250

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250. However, to speak with the angels of heaven is granted only to those who are in truths from good, especially to those who are in the acknowledgment of the Lord and of the Divine in His Human, because this is the truth in which the heavens are. For, as it has been shown above, the Lewd is the God of heaven (n. 2-6); the Divine of the Lord makes heaven (n. 7-12); the Divine of the Lord in heaven is love to Him and charity towards the neighbour from Him (n. 13-19); the entire heaven as a whole resembles one man; also any one society of heaven; and each angel is in a complete human form, and this from the Lord's Divine Human (n. 59-86). All of which makes evident that only those whose interiors have been opened by Divine Truths, even to the Lord, are able to speak with angels of heaven, since it is into these truths with man that the Lord inflows, and when the Lord inflows heaven does so also. Divine Truths open the interiors of man because man has been so created as to be in respect of his internal man an image of heaven, and in respect of his external an image of the world (n. 57); and the internal man is opened only by means of Divine Truth going forth from the Lord, because that is the light and the life of heaven (n. 126-140).


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