116. The Lord was from eternity the Divine Proceeding, thus the Divine Human. This can be seen from the fact that the whole heaven is the Grand Man. The Divine Proceeding effects this. This matter is treated of in the work HEAVEN AND HELL where it speaks of the Grand Man. That this was the Divine Human is evident from those passages where it is stated that the Father was not seen nor heard, but the Son, also that the Lord spoke through the prophets, and because God cannot appear as a man except by the Divine Proceeding.