Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg Foundation

HEAVEN AND HELL 55
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Therefore Every Angel Is
in a Complete Human Form
73. In the two preceding chapters it has been shown that
heaven in its whole complex, and likewise each society in
heaven, reflects a single man. From the sequence of reasons
there set forth it follows that this is equally true of each angel.
As heaven is a man in largest form, and a society of heaven in a
less form, so is an angel in least. For in the most perfect form,
such as the form of heaven is, there is a likeness of the whole in
the part and of the part in the whole. This is so for the reason
that heaven is a common sharing, for it shares all it has with
each one, and each one receives all he has from that sharing.
Because an angel is thus a recipient he is a heaven in least form,
as shown above in its chapter; and a man also, so far as he
receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel (see
above, n. 57). This is thus described in Revelation:
He measured the wall of the holy Jerusalem, a hundred and
forty and four cubits, the measure of a man, which is that of an
angel (Rev. 21:17).
“Jerusalem” means here the Lord’s church, and in a more
eminent sense, heaven; 64
the “wall” means truth, which is a
defense against the assault of falsities and evils; 65
“a hundred
64. “Jerusalem” means the church (n. 402, 3654, 9166).
65. The “wall” means truth defending against the assault of falsities and
evils (n. 6419).