488. A GREAT MYSTERY It is a great mystery that the entire angelic heaven is so formed that in every respect it corresponds to Man in the universal and in the singular, and to all his members; and that this Grand Man [Maximus Homo] has become altogether perverse by lapses, so that things inferior dominate those that are superior.* From this was the necessity that Jesus Christ should come into the world and conquer the devil, and thus restore order, and so be the one Only Man, to Whom the Universe might refer itself. Hence it is that Jesus Christ is the All in all, and to Him alone the angelic heaven corresponds; and that the lower, and the lowest crew are rejected like dross or dung beneath His feet. Hence he who is not in Jesus Christ, or in His Body, is not in heaven. 1748, Jan. 18. * Crossed out: "And they desire the lowest things above the highest."