279. Order. It is from the Divine Truth which proceeds from the Lord that Order is, and Divine Good is the essential of Order, nos. 1728, 2258, 8700, 8988. The Lord is order, because Divine Good and Divine Truth are from the Lord, yea, are the Lord, in the heavens and on earth, nos. 1919, 2011, 5110, 5703, 10336, 10619. Divine truths are the laws of order, nos. 2447, 7995. Where order is, there the Lord is present; but where there is no order, there the Lord is not present, no. 5703. Since Divine Truth is order, and Divine Good the essential of order, therefore each and all things in the universe, in order to be something, have reference to good and truth, because they have reference to order, nos. 2452, 3166, 4390, 4409, 5232, 7256, 10122, 10555. Because good is the essential of order, therefore it arranges truths into order; and not conversely, nos. 3316, 3470, 4302, 5704, 5709, 6028, 6690. The universal heaven, so far as all the angelic societies are concerned, has been arranged by the Lord according to His Divine order, because the Divine of the Lord with the angels constitutes heaven, nos. 6338, 7211, 9128, 9338, 10125, 10151, 10157. For this reason, the form of heaven is a form according to Divine order, nos. 4040-4043, 6607, 9877. So far as a man lives according to order, and thus so far as he is in good according to Divine truths, which are the laws of order, so far he is a man, no. 4839. So far indeed as he lives thus, he appears in the other life is a perfect and handsome man; but so far as he does not live thus, so far he appears as a monster, nos. 4839, 6605, 6626. From this it is evident that it is man into whom are collected all things of order, and that from creation man is Divine order in form, nos. 4219, 4220, 4223, 4523, 4524, 5114, 5368, 6013, 6057, 6605, 6626, 9706, 10156, 10472. Because every angel is a recipient of Divine order from the Lord, he is in a human form which is perfect and beautiful according to reception, nos. 322, 1880, 1881, 3633, 3804, 4622, 4735, 4797, 4985, 5199, 5530, 6054, 9879, 10177, 10594. The angelic heaven, in its whole aggregate, in form is also like a man; and indeed for this reason that the entire universal heaven, in respect to all the angelic societies therein, has been arranged by the Lord according to Divine order, nos. 2996, 2998, 3624-3629, 3636-3643, 3741-3745, 4625. From this it is evident, that it is the Divine Human from which are all these things, nos. 2996, 2998, 3624-3649, 3741-3745. From this it also follows, that the Lord is the only Man, and that those are men who receive the Divine from Him, no. 1894. So far as they receive the latter, so far they are images of the Lord, no. 8547. A man is not born into good and truth, but into evil and falsity; thus he is not born into Divine order, but into the opposite of order; and on this account it is that he is born into sheer ignorance, and that he must necessarily be born anew, that is, regenerated; which is brought about through Divine truths from the Lord, and through a life according thereto, to the intent that he may be initiated into order, and thus become a man, nos. 1047, 2307, 2308, 3518, 3812, 8480, 8550, 10283, 10284, 10286, 10731. When the Lord regenerates a man, He arranges all things with him according to order, that is, according to the form of heaven, nos. 5700, 6690, 9931, 10303. The man who is led by the Lord, is led according to Divine order, no. 8512. The interiors which are of the mind, with the man who is in Divine order are open into heaven, even to the Lord, but they are closed with him who is not in Divine order, no. 8513. So far as a man lives according to order, so far he has intelligence and wisdom, no. 2592. The Lord governs the first and last things of order, and He governs the first things from the last, and the last things from the first; and thus He holds all things together in connexion and order, nos. 3702, 3739, 6040, 6056, 9828. Concerning successive order; and the ultimate of order, in which things successive are also together in their order, nos. 634, 3691, 4145, 5114, 5897, 6239, 6326, 6465, 8603, 9215, 9216, 9828, 9836, 10044, 10099, 10329, 10335. Evils and falsities are contrary to order, and still they are governed by the Lord, not according to order, but from order, nos. 4839, 7877, 10778. Evils and falsities are governed through the laws of permission, and indeed for the sake of order, nos. 7877, 8700, 10778. What is opposed to Divine order is impossible; as for instance, that a man who lives in evil can be saved from pure Mercy, and further, that in the other life the evil may be consociated with the good, and many other things, no. 8700.