283. Those, therefore, who within the Church do not acknowledge the Lord and His Divine, cannot be conjoined with God, and thus they cannot have any lot in common with the angels in heaven for no one can be conjoined with God except from the Lord, and in the Lord. That no one can be conjoined with God except from the Lord, the Lord teaches in John (i. 18), "No man hath ever seen God; the only begotten Son, Who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath manifested Him." Again, "Ye have neither heard the voice of the Father at any time, nor seen His shape" (John v. 37). Again, in Matthew (xi. 27), "No man knoweth the Father, save the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal Him," And again, in John (xiv. 6), "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father but by Me." The reason why no one can be conjoined to God except in the Lord, is that the Father is in Him, and they are One; as He teaches, in John (xiv. 7-11), "If ye had known Me, ye should have known my Father also. He that seeth Me, seeth the Father. Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? " And again, "The Father and I are One. That ye may know and believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me" (John x. 30, 38).