Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 287

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287. Every man has from his father his Esse of life, which is called his soul; from this is the Existere of life, which is called the body. The body, therefore, is the effigy of its soul; for through it the soul acts its own life at its good pleasure. Hence it is that human beings are born into the likeness of their parents, and that families are discriminated from each other. From this it appears what kind of a body, that is, what kind of a Human the Lord had; namely, that it was like the Divine Itself, which was the Esse of His life, or the soul from the Father; wherefore He said, "He that seeth Me seeth the Father" (John xiv. 9).


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