AC 1590
What the beauty of the external man is
when conjoined with the internal cannot be described,
because it does not exist with any human being,
but with the Lord alone.
What exists in man and angel is from the Lord.
Only in a small degree can this appear,
from the image of the Lord
as to His external man
that is presented in the heavens.
The three heavens are images of the Lord's external man;
but their beauty can never be described by anything
so as to present to anyone's comprehension
an idea of what it is.
As in the Lord everything is infinite,
so in heaven everything is indefinite (or unlimited).
The indefinite of heaven
is an image of the infinite of the Lord.
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