Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg Foundation

HEAVEN AND HELL 60
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It Is from the Lord’s Divine Human
That Heaven as a Whole and
in Part Reflects Man
78. That it is from the Lord’s Divine human that heaven as a
whole and in part reflects man, follows as a conclusion from all
that has been stated and shown in the preceding chapters,
namely: (1) That the God of heaven is the Lord. (2) It is the
Divine of the Lord that makes heaven. (3) Heaven consists of
innumerable societies; and each society is a heaven in a smaller
form, and each angel in the smallest form. (4) All heaven in the
aggregate reflects a single man. (5) Each society in the heavens
reflects a single man. (6) Therefore every angel is in a complete
human form. All this leads to the conclusion that as it is the
Divine that makes heaven, heaven must be human in form.
That this Divine is the Lord’s Divine human can be seen still
more clearly, because in a compendium, in what has been
collected, brought together and collated from Arcana Coelestia
and placed as a supplement at the end of this chapter. That the
Lord’s human is Divine, and that it is not true that his human
is not Divine, as those within the church believe, may also be
seen in the same extracts, also in the chapter on the Lord, in
the New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine, at the end.
79. That this is true has been proved to me by much
experience, about which something shall now be said. No angel
in the heavens ever perceives the Divine as being in any other
than a human form; and what is remarkable, those in the
higher heavens are unable to think of the Divine in any other
way. The necessity of thinking in this way comes from the