Monday, May 11, 2009

LJ 13 - Every Divine work has respect to infinity and eternity.

Last Judgment 13

Every Divine work
has respect to infinity and eternity,
is evident
from many things which exist both in heaven and in the world:
in neither of them
is there ever given one thing exactly similar to,
or the same as, another:
no two faces are either alike or identical,
nor will be to eternity:
in like manner the mind of one is never altogether like that of another;
wherefore there are as many faces and as many minds
as there are people and angels.

That such infinite variety is in each and in all,
is because they all originate from the Divine,
which is infinite;
hence there is a certain image of infinity everywhere,
to the end that the Divine may regard all things as His own work,
and at the same time,
that all things,
as His work,
may have respect to the Divine.

The angelic heaven is the end
for which all things in the universe were created,
for it is the end on account of which the human race exists,
and the human race is the end
regarded in the creation of the visible heaven,
and the earths included in it.
Where fore that Divine work, namely, the angelic heaven,
primarily has respect to infinity and eternity,
and therefore to its multiplication without end,
for the Divine Himself dwells therein.

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