AE 1096, 1097 - Thought About the Lord

AE 1096 [2], 1097 [3-4]

The first and foremost thought that opens heaven to man
is thought about God,
and for the reason that God is the all of heaven,
even to the extent that
whether we say heaven or God
it is the same thing.

Thought about God as Man,
in whom is the Divine trinity, that is, the trinity
called the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
alone opens heaven;
while on the other hand thought about God as not Man,
which idea is presented in appearance as a little cloud,
or as nature in her least parts, closes heaven,
for God is Man,
as the whole angelic heaven in its complex is Man,
and every angel and every spirit is in consequence a man.
For this reason
thought about the Lord as being the God of the universe
is what alone opens heaven, for the Lord says:

The Father has given all things into the hand of the Son.
(John 3:35)

The Father has given the Son power over all flesh.
(John 17:2)

All things have been delivered to Me by the Father.
(Matthew 11:27)

All authority has been given unto Me
in heaven and on earth.
(Matthew 28:18)

All this makes clear
that man without such an idea of God as exists in heaven
cannot be saved.
The idea of God in heaven is the Lord,
for the angels of heaven are in the Lord
and the Lord is in them;
consequently to think of any other God than the Lord
is to them impossible.
Allow me to add that the idea of God as Man
has been implanted from heaven
in every nation throughout the whole world,
but what I lament,
it has been destroyed in Christendom.