Tuesday, January 15, 2013

AC 4219 - the Grand Man

AC 4219
. . . heaven in its entirety is the Grand Man,
and heaven is called the Grand Man
because it corresponds to the Lord's Divine Human.
For the Lord alone is Man,
and angels and spirits, as well as people on earth,
are likewise men only insofar as they are dependent on Him.
Let nobody suppose that anyone is man
because he has a human face and a human body,
and has a brain and also organs and limbs.
All of these he has in common with animals,
and therefore these are the things
which die and become a corpse.
But a person is man by virtue
of his being able to think and will as a human being,
and so of his being able to receive things that are Divine,
that is which are the Lord's. 

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