DLW 11 - God is Supremely Human

DLW 11

Throughout the heavens

one finds no other idea of God

than the idea of a person.

The reason is

that heaven in its totality and in every part 

is in its form as though a single person,

and it is the Divine existing in angels

which forms heaven.

Thought, moreover,

proceeds in accordance with the form of heaven.

Consequently it is impossible for angels

to think of God in any other way.

For the same reason,

all people in the world

who are conjoined with heaven

think similarly of God

when they think inwardly in themselves

or in their spirit.

It is because God is human

that all angels and all spirits

are human beings in perfect form.

The form of heaven causes this,

its form being the same

in its greatest and in its least constituents.
   
. . . People in ancient times,

from the wise to the simple among them,

thought of God only as a person,

and when they eventually

began to worship a plurality of gods,

as they did in Athens and Rome,

they worshiped them all as persons.