The union of love and wisdom with male and female together is an image of God and a likeness of God (46, 47, 74).

The image is the recipient form or receptacle; and the likeness of God is the perception with man that he acts as from himself, although from the Lord (illustrated, 46 [CL 132]).

The image of God has not been lost on the part of God with man; most interiorly with man there still is ability to understand such things as are of God: but His image has been lost on the part of man (48 [CL 269]).

How lost (49). (See TREE.)